CVS-RCS- HOW-TO document for Linux (Source Code Control System): Other Formats of this Document

9. Other Formats of this Document

This document is published in 11 different formats namely - DVI, Postscript, Latex, Adobe Acrobat PDF, LyX, GNU-info, HTML, RTF(Rich Text Format), Plain-text, Unix man pages and SGML.

You can get this HOWTO document as a single file tar ball in HTML, DVI, Postscript or SGML formats from - ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/
Plain text format is in: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO
Translations to other languages like French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese are in ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO Any help from you to translate to other languages is welcome.

The document is written using a tool called "SGML-Tools" which can be got from - http://www.sgmltools.org Compiling the source you will get the following commands like

sgml2html CVS-HOWTO.sgml (to generate html file)
sgml2rtf CVS-HOWTO.sgml (to generate RTF file)
sgml2latex CVS-HOWTO.sgml (to generate latex file)

LaTeX documents may be converted into PDF files simply by producing a Postscript output using sgml2latex ( and dvips) and running the output through the Acrobat distill ( http://www.adobe.com) command as follows:

bash$ man sgml2latex
bash$ sgml2latex filename.sgml
bash$ man dvips
bash$ dvips -o filename.ps filename.dvi
bash$ distill filename.ps
bash$ man ghostscript
bash$ man ps2pdf
bash$ ps2pdf input.ps output.pdf
bash$ acroread output.pdf &

Or you can use Ghostscript command ps2pdf. ps2pdf is a work-alike for nearly all the functionality of Adobe's Acrobat Distiller product: it converts PostScript files to Portable Document Format (PDF) files. ps2pdf is implemented as a very small command script (batch file) that invokes Ghostscript, selecting a special "output device" called pdfwrite. In order to use ps2pdf, the pdfwrite device must be included in the makefile when Ghostscript was compiled; see the documentation on building Ghostscript for details.

This howto document is located at -

http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/CVS-HOWTO.html

Also you can find this document at the following mirrors sites -

http://www.caldera.com/LDP/HOWTO/CVS-HOWTO.html
http://www.WGS.com/LDP/HOWTO/CVS-HOWTO.html
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/HOWTO/CVS-HOWTO.html
http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/ldp/HOWTO/CVS-HOWTO.html
Other mirror sites near you (network-address-wise) can be found at http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/hmirrors.html select a site and go to directory /LDP/HOWTO/CVS-HOWTO.html

In order to view the document in dvi format, use the xdvi program. The xdvi program is located in tetex-xdvi*.rpm package in Redhat Linux which can be located through ControlPanel | Applications | Publishing | TeX menu buttons. To read dvi document give the command -


        xdvi -geometry 80x90 howto.dvi
        man xdvi

And resize the window with mouse. To navigate use Arrow keys, Page Up, Page Down keys, also you can use 'f', 'd', 'u', 'c', 'l', 'r', 'p', 'n' letter keys to move up, down, center, next page, previous page etc. To turn off expert menu press 'x'.

You can read postscript file using the program 'gv' (ghostview) or 'ghostscript'. The ghostscript program is in ghostscript*.rpm package and gv program is in gv*.rpm package in Redhat Linux which can be located through ControlPanel | Applications | Graphics menu buttons. The gv program is much more user friendly than ghostscript. Also ghostscript and gv are available on other platforms like OS/2, Windows 95 and NT, you view this document even on those platforms.

Get ghostscript for Windows 95, OS/2, and for all OSes from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost

To read postscript document give the command -


                gv howto.ps
                ghostscript howto.ps

You can read HTML format document using Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet explorer, Redhat Baron Web browser or any of the 10 other web browsers.

You can read the latex, LyX output using LyX a X-Windows front end to latex.

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