To create all formats, some software packages are required:
- The Build environment is based on Ant , a popular Build tool from the Apache Group . The XML tools and here especially the stylesheet processes rely on Java . Thus a Java runtime environment Version 1.3 or higher is required. .
- To create the Word version of an article, Microsoft Word is used. This of course only works on Microsoft Windows and is the only tool used here not available for freely.
- The Help File format requires a free Microsoft tool which can be download from Microsoft : hhc.exe the Help compiler
- The PDF format is generated with the tool HTMLDOC . Source code and binary can also be downloaded for free.
- The Plain-Text Format is generated via HTML and the tool w3m, a text browser similar to Lynx.
- Mark realized some support functions in Python, so Python should also be installed on the system.
- If you want to create your DocBook with OpenOffice you naturally need to install OpenOffice.
- The package ooo2sDbk converts OpenOffice documents to DocBook.
