SGML-Tools User's Guide

by Matt Welsh. Updated by Greg Hankins, rewritten by Eric S. Raymond.

1.0 ($Revision: 1.14 $), 10 November 1997

This document is a user's guide to the SGML-Tools formatting system, a SGML-based system which allows you to produce a variety of output formats. You can create plain text output (ASCII and ISO-8859-1), DVI, PostScript, HTML, GNU info, LyX, and RTF output from a single document source file. This guide describes SGML-Tools version 1.0.

1. Introduction

2. Installation

2.1 What SGML-Tools Needs
2.2 Installing The Software

3. Writing Documents With SGML-Tools

3.1 Basic Concepts
3.2 Special Characters
3.3 Verbatim and Code Environments
3.4 Overall Document Structure
3.5 Internal Cross-References
3.6 Web References
3.7 Fonts
3.8 Lists
3.9 Conditionalization
3.10 Index generation
3.11 Controlling justification

4. Formatting SGML Documents

4.1 Checking SGML Syntax
4.2 Creating Plain Text Output
4.3 Creating LaTeX, DVI or PostScript Output
4.4 Creating HTML Output
4.5 Creating GNU Info Output
4.6 Creating LyX Output
4.7 Creating RTF Output

5. Internationalization Support

6. How SGML-Tools Works

6.1 Overview of SGML
6.2 How SGML Works
6.3 What Happens When SGML-Tools Processes A Document
6.4 Further Information