2.3.1 Prerequisites

The following programs must be installed in order to run tbook:

• LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, (both new and well equipped, see Needed LaTeX packages), dvips,¹

• Ghostscript², ps2pdf (part of Ghostscript),

• pnmtopng, ppmtojpeg, pnmfile,³ (not really vital),

• xindy⁴ if you need indexing,

• jpeg2ps⁵ and

• Saxon 6.5.x⁶ (I don't support Saxon 7 yet).

Much of this may be already installed with your system.

For the Saxon you have to provide a shell script named saxon that calls it. It may look like this:

     CLASSPATH=~/jars/saxon.jar:$CLASSPATH
     export CLASSPATH
     java -ms15000000 com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9

However, newer versions of Saxon (newer than 6.5.2) may need another class name. See the Saxon homepage at “installation”–“changes” for further details.

In order to install tbook with some convenience, you also need CWEB⁷, sed, patch and Flex⁸. However, the Linux/Intel binaries are included in the distribution, as well as all BibTeX-Styles, if you have trouble to build them.