Contents

License
Downloading GutenMark
Installing GutenMark
Compiling GutenMark
Other Stuff You Might Want

License

Downloading GutenMark

The "wordlists" and "namelists" are optional files that you can download or not, as you choose.   The wordlists are categorized as highly recommended, recommended , or available, based on my own admittedly subjective experience.   Click here for an extended explanation of what wordlists do .

Installing GutenMark

... on Win32

1. Unzip GutenMark-xxx.zip with WinZip, pkunzip, or whatever you have that's appropriate.  You'll find GutenMark.exe under the GutenMark\Win32 directory.
2. Add this directory to your PATH, or copy GutenMark.exe to some directory that's already in your path.
3. Place the file GutenMark.cfg and any wordlists or namelists into the directory from which you intend to run the GutenMark command-line program.  Typically, this is the same as the directory containing your etexts.
4. Don't uncompress the wordlists.
5. Depending on the wordlists you've downloaded, the native languages of the etexts you're interested in, and your own personal tastes, you may want to reconfigure the software.  In most cases, the default configuration should be fine.

... on Linux (Intel or PPC), Mac OS X, or FreeBSD

1. gunzip GutenMark-xxx.tar.gz
2. tar -xf GutenMark-xxx.tar
3. Under the GutenMark directory will subdirectories LinuxIntel, LinuxPPC, MacOS-X, and FreeBSD.  Each subdirectory contains an executable program called "GutenMark" suitable for the indicated platform.   Add the appropriate directory to your path, or copy the executable to some directory that's already in your path.
4. Place the file GutenMark.cfg and any wordlists or namelists into the directory from which you intend to run the GutenMark command-line program.  Typically, this is the same as the directory containing your etexts.
5. Don't uncompress the wordlists.
6. Depending on the wordlists you've downloaded, the native languages of the etexts you're interested in, and your own personal tastes, you may want to reconfigure the software.  In most cases, the default configuration should be fine.

Compiling GutenMark

NOTE:  In versions later than 20011113, support for Borland's free C++ compiler (see  Borland's web site ) has been dropped, because it was just too much effort for me without knowing if anyone was interested.  If for some reason you don't want to use mingw32, and if you figure out how to get other C compilers such as Borland's or Microsoft's to work, tell me ; I'll post the instructions here.

Requirements

... on Win32

make GutenMark.exe

... on *NIX

gunzip GutenMark-current.tar.gz
tar -xf GutenMark-current.tar
cd GutenMark/src
make

Other Stuff You Might Want

If, on the other hand, you are looking for an end-to-end solution that can produce attractive printable texts like this sample, then you need some better way of printing HTML than your browser can provide.  You could, of course, load the HTML into Microsoft Word or some other word processing program, and manipulate the document format manually.

The solution I would choose instead is to use a utility program that can convert HTML to Postscript printer language, or to PDF format.  Several such free utilities are available.

• html2ps is available for Linux systems (my SuSE Linux system installed it automatically), and is the program I used to create the sample PDF file.  Its only drawbacks, as far as I know, are that it is slow and that it can leave hanging section headings at the bottoms of pages.  Also, if the font size is too big (or the page size too small), it has occasional problems right justifying text.  Actually, html2ps only creates Postscript, which can then be converted to PDF with ps2pdf .  I don't have personal experience with these options on Win32 systems, but html2ps is written in Perl, and should therefore be available on Win32; Postscript can be converted to PDF or printed on Win32 using Adobe Acrobat (costs money) or with ghostscript (for free).  If you are interested in using html2ps with GutenMark, you may also be interested in various configuration files for html2ps that I think work nicely with GutenMark HTML:

htmldoc is available for either for Win32 or in source-code form (for Linux systems), and has some very nice properties.  I personally find it a little buggy, but it's apparently under active development and can presumably only get better.  The main problem is that it is very bad at right justification (or at least, I haven't figured it out), and so you need to use ragged-right text.

• Convert the PG etexts to to LaTeX instead of HTML with GutenMark 's "--latex" command-line switch.  There are also various free conversion utilities to convert HTML to LaTeX (such as htmltolatex or html2latex), but experimentation with such utilities has not (so far) produced good results.  Unfortunately GutenMark's LaTeX support is also still quite buggy.
• Convert to DocBook with existing (non-free) utilities.
• Convert to XML with existing utilities.

©2001 Ronald S. Burkey
Last updated 12/28/01 by RSB.  Contact me .