LFS Book Conversion Tools Installation Instructions After downloading the SVN source, there are some things that need to be set up on your computer if you want to convert the XML source into something easier to read (e.g. HTML, TXT, PS or PDF). If you are interested in this, then keep reading. If you are only interested in editing the XML source for re- submission to the lfs-book or lfs-dev mailing lists, then you do not need this document. Instead, you need to read the LFS Editor's Manual. See the LFS website at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If all you want to do is convert XML to HTML perform the following: * libxml2 - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/libxml2.html * libxslt - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/libxslt.html * DocBook DTD - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/xml.html * DocBook XSL Stylesheets - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/pst/docbook-xsl.html * HTMLTidy - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/tidy.html - you'll also need the patch at http://linuxfromscratch.org/~matthew/tidy-041026-prevent_PRE_newlines-1.patch as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to be able to convert the book into PDF as well, then you will need the FOP package. This takes an XSL-FO file (created with libxslt which you already installed) and converts it to PDF. FOP is dependent on ANT (Another Neat Tool) and the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API. First we need the Java SDK installed. See http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/j2sdk.html. Now install JAI: - Download jai-1_1_2_01-lib-linux-i586-jdk.bin from http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jai/downloads/download-1_1_2_01.html (download the version for the JDK Install). - chmod +x jai-1_1_2_01-lib-linux-i586-jdk.bin - cd /opt/j2sdk && /path/to/jai-1_1_2_01-lib-linux-i586-jdk.bin Next install ANT: - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/apache-ant.html And finally install FOP: - download http://www.apache.org/dist/xml/fop/fop-0.20.5-src.tar.gz - tar -xzvf fop-0.20.5-src.tar.gz (recent versions of tar will warn about "A lone zero block at 33476" but this can be safely ignored) - cd fop-0.20.5 && ./build.sh && install -d /opt/fop/{bin,lib} && cp lib/{avalon-framework-cvs-20020806.jar,batik.jar} build/fop.jar \ /opt/fop/lib && cp fop.sh /opt/fop/bin - edit your bash profile to set FOP_HOME=/opt/fop and PATH=$PATH:/opt/fop/bin