1 SGMLS.PM: A PERL5 CLASS LIBRARY FOR USE WITH THE
2 SGMLS AND NSGMLS PARSERS
11 [This is the fourth public release. See "CHANGES", below, for a
12 summary of the most important changes since version 1.02. For
13 detailed changes, see ChangeLog and DOC/ChangeLog; for known bugs, see
17 This distribution contains SGMLS.pm, a perl5 class library for parsing
18 the output from James Clark's SGMLS and NSGMLS parsers. This is a
19 free package, but it is _not_ Public-Domain software -- please see the
20 file COPYING in this directory for the terms of use.
22 Full documentation is available in SGML format the DOC directory, and
23 in Postscript, LaTeX, and HTML format in the various subdirectories of
24 the DOC directory. Documentation in POD format is also included
25 within each of the modules, and once they are installed, you can view
26 them with perldoc (SGMLS, SGMLS::Ouptut, or SGMLS::Refs) -- there is
27 no POD documentation in sgmlspl yet.
29 Take a look in the elisp/ subdirectory for a special package for Gnu
30 Emacs -- it will allow you to run (n)sgmls and sgmlspl from within an
31 Emacs buffer containing an SGML file, displaying the output (LaTeX,
32 for example) in another Emacs buffer.
34 I have included a Unix Makefile for installing the package on Unix and
35 Unix-like systems. Make any necessary changes at the top of the
40 to install the perl5 scripts on your system. If you want to test the
41 installation, change to the DOC subdirectory, read the comments at the
42 top of the make file there, then type
46 to regenerate the LaTeX and HTML documentation using the scripts which
47 you have just installed (you will have to have the SGMLS or NSGMLS
48 parser, the Docbook 2.2.1 DTD and SGML declaration, and the ISOpub and
49 ISOnum entity sets available on your system -- copies are included in
50 the DOC/Extras subdirectory). You may also type
58 to produce DVI or Postscript versions of the documentation for
62 ** nb: Effective with v.1.02, SGMLS.pm supports the new output from
63 NSGMLS 0.4.13 with the -h option.
68 There have been some major changes since version 1.02. File handles
69 passed as arguments to SGMLS::new should be qualified in the correct
70 package now. The Output.pm module has been moved, so you should now
79 in all of your scripts. There is also a new package, SGMLS::Refs, to
80 maintain a database of forward references from one processing pass to
81 another, like the LaTeX .aux files. Once you have installed SGMLS.pm,
86 at the shell prompt for more information, or you can read the new
87 section in the SGML documentation for sgmlspl. All of the
88 documentation for this package is available online through my home
91 As mentioned above, there is also a convenient package for Gnu Emacs
92 19 in the elisp/ directory.
100 EMAIL: dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca
101 WWW: http://www.uottawa.ca/~dmeggins
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