Open Source Unix Shell Text Processing Software for Desktop Operating Systems

RefDB is a reference database and bibliography tool for SGML, XML, and LaTeX documents, sort of a Reference Manager or BibTeX for markup languages. It is portable and known to run on Linux, Free/NetBSD, OSX, Solaris, and Windows/Cygwin.

OOoLatex is no more maintained. Please consider using TexMaths (http://roland65.free.fr/texmaths/) OOoLatex is a set marcos designed to provide latex support into OpenOffice. Complex equations can be inserted as images, the latex code is saved into the image attribute while simpler equations are expanded into symbol characters to be inserted as text.

DocScript is an approach to document preparation. It presents tools and utilities to edit and publish documents. The philosophy behind the DocScript project is to utilize the programming tools you're working with anyway in your daily work.

LaTeX Reference Card Creator is a Makefile based build system for creating reference cards. LaTeX Reference Card Creator compiles content into PDF, DjVu, TEX DVI, HTML and PostScript output formats. A three column reference card will be created. Features include batch image format conversions, spell checking, broken link checking, automatic backups and .zip and .tar.gz distribution building. LaTeX Reference Card Creator provides many LaTeX examples which can be used to make a reference card.

LaTeX Web Publisher is a Makefile based Web publishing system featuring content creation into HTML, non-split HTML, HTML Zip, PDF, DjVu, PostScript, DVI and Plain text formats. All LaTeX Web Publisher output formats are from a single LaTeX source and have indices. LaTeX Web Publisher can be used for website creation and has FTP deployment capabilities. A website created with LaTeX Web Publisher will have HTML, non-split HTML and PDF content formats. The website will have complete HTML contents available as downloadible zip file and the websites source available as gzipped tar file. A 'configure' file is provided to help compile the gzipped tar file sources. Other features include spell checking, broken link checking, diction and style analysis on LaTeX sources. LaTeX Web Publisher is a wrapper for the programs latex, makeindex, latex2html, htlatex, dvips, dvi2ps, ps2pdf, pdflatex, pdf2djvu, dvi2tty, dvipdfm, epstopdf, convert, aspell, diction, style and linkchecker.

Texinfo Web Publisher is a Makefile based publishing system featuring simultaneous con- tent creation into HTML, non-split HTML, Framed HTML, HTML Zip, XML, DocBook, PDF, DjVu, PostScript, DVI, Plain text, Info and EPUB book formats. All Texinfo Web Publisher output formats are from a single source. Texinfo Web Publisher can be used for website creation has FTP deployment capabilities and supports Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Texinfo Web Publisher is a low maintenance solution for publishing websites with multi- format matching content. Texinfo Web Publisher is a wrapper for GNU Texinfo.

A UNIX Shell script wrapper for the VI editor. It is recommended VIB be used as an alias for the VI editor. VIB creates backups of any files edited using VI to a specified location while maintaining X backup revisions, and keeping a revision history of who made changes and when to a master log. VIB is Ideal in environments where you have multiple users logging into a UNIX system and you wish to keep track of whom is modifying files. For example, VIB could be 'aliased' in all new user shell accounts, so that when they edit a file using "vi", a log entry will be generated, and a backup copy of the file with their username will also be notated. The goal of VIB is to assist with tracking who modified what file, when on a UNIX/Linux systsm.

Latexss is a program that can transform a text file with a very minimal style syntax into a self contained LaTeX spreadsheet powered by the fp package. A graphical front-end (klatexss) is provided to generate both the text and the LaTeX file.