To make the XHTML version (ends up in a dir named html/): scripts/build This takes quite a while. To do it for just one chapter for faster testing: scripts/build -t chapters/05.xml This does the whole book but is also much faster: scripts/build -t There are many possible sub-targets as well, which are specified with -T, such as: scripts/build -t -T pdf_web You can get a complete list of targets via: scripts/build -h Requirements ------------ Getting this all working is actually a pretty huge undertaking; you're almost certainly better off asking Robin Lee Powell for an account on the appropriate server. General -------------- xsltproc xmlto PDF Generation -------------- dblatex xetex, with a recent version of texlive. For Fedora, this means following the instructions at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive to get the TeXLive 2011-2 repo or later, then: sudo yum install texlive-xetex sudo yum install texlive-dejavu-fedora-fonts texlive-dejavu texlive-multirow texlive-subfigure texlive-appendix texlive-changebar texlive-overpic texlive-collection-langcjk MOBI / EPUB ----------- ebook-convert (from the yum/rpm calibre package) Xvfb and xvfb-run (fake X for calibre)