ecromedos 2 - Users' Manual

ecromedos 2 - Users' Manual

Tobias Koch

January 10, 2010

© Copyright 2009, Tobias Koch.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. What is ecromedos?

1.2. What's new in Version 2?

1.4. About this Document

1.5. Typographic Conventions

1.6. Getting Involved

1.7. Acknowledgements

2. Installation

2.1. Obtaining the Latest Version

2.2. Dependencies

2.3. Installation from Source

2.4. Installing Binary Packages

2.4.1. Debian/GNU and Ubuntu Linux

2.4.2. OpenSUSE Linux

3. General Usage Instructions

3.1. Beginning a New Document

3.1.1. Choosing a Document Class

3.1.2. Starting from a Template

3.2. Transforming Documents

3.2.1. Producing XHTML Output

3.2.2. Producing Postscript and PDF

3.3. Output Options

3.3.1. Specifying the Document's Language

3.3.2. Chunking Into Multiple Files

3.3.3. Chapter and Section Numbering

3.3.4. Generating a Table of Contents

3.3.5. Options Specific to Printable Output

4. Basic Document Editing

4.1. A Brief Introduction to XML

4.2. How to Structure Your Documents

4.3. Formatting Text

4.4. Controlling Hyphenation

4.5. Manually Inserting Line or Page Breaks

4.6. Working with Cross-References

4.8. Placing Marginal Notes and Footnotes

4.9. Inline and Block Quotes

4.10. Useful Pre-Defined Entities

5. Advanced Language Features

5.1. Using Lists

5.1.1. Bullet Lists and Ordered Lists

5.1.2. Definition Lists

5.2. Defining Tables

5.2.1. Basic Tables

5.2.2. Activating the Grid Rules

5.2.3. Coloring Table Cells

5.2.4. Text-Alignment in Table Cells

5.2.5. Rows Spanning Multiple Columns

5.2.6. Subtables

5.3. Embedding Graphics

5.4. About Floating Objects

5.5. Verbatim Text and Code Listings

5.6. Mathematic Formulas

5.6.1. Inline Math

5.6.2. Formulas as Block Elements

6. The Backmatter

6.1. The Appendices

6.2. Creating a Glossary

6.2.1. Making Definitions on the Spot

6.2.2. Automatic Generation of the Glossary

6.2.3. Creating the Glossary Manually

6.3. Keeping a Bibliography

6.4. Generating Keyword Indexes

6.4.1. Placing Index Markers

6.4.2. Automatic Index Generation

6.4.3. Manual Index Creation

7. Styling Your Documents

7.1. Editing the CSS-Stylesheet

7.1.1. Frontpage and Table of Contents

7.1.2. Text Body and Margin

7.1.3. Navigation Elements

7.1.4. Glossary and Index

7.2. Changing the Look of L^aT_eX-based Output

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B. GNU Free Documentation License

Language Elements