Open Source Unix Shell Text Processing Software for BSD

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.

TEA is a text editor that provides a wide range of text-processing functions (over 100) and the syntax highlighting. There are two branches of TEA: Qt-based and GTK-based.

PDF::API2 is 'The Next Generation' of Text::PDF::API, a Perl module-chain that facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files. It features support for the 14 base PDF Core Fonts, TrueType fonts, and Adobe-Type1, with unicode mappings, embedding o

Apostilator is a XML based front end to LaTeX that simplifies the process of writing all kinds of documents from letters to books, reports and articles. It's easy to customize and create templates defining a style for all your documents.

The book index generator generate the back-of-book index for Thai book automatically.

DocbBook SGML Toolbox combines the source packages for DocBook SGML 3.1, 4.1, Jade, and other sgml/docbook utilities, and automatically compiles and installs the binary Slackware,RPM,or Debian packages. Install is EASY!

Comprehensive DocBook XML processing solution for MacOS X

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.

Project to create a unified FAQ XML format with all applicable software to convert it to various formats, such as multiple forms of HTML, TeX, PDF, text files, etc. Useful for most of "FAQ keepers" on various forums and discussion lists.

JReferences is a tool to store and retrieve bibliographic references from a file or MySQL database. It reads BibTeXML, DocBook XML and RIS type references, and can output these and BibTex. A bibtex like alternative is also provided for DocBook XML docu

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.

Old-Russian Ispell is a superset of A.I. Lebedev's rus-ispell package that enables spellchecking of texts in old Russian orthography (pre-1918). The KOI8-C encoding is used for representing old Russian characters. This package requires ispell 3.1.20+.

ScriptEchoColor simplifies Linux terminal text colorizing, formatting and several steps of script coding.

A Simple Tool Kit for Programmers and general users. The purpose of this project is to benefit both the programmers and the end users.

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.

This set of scripts is meant to build static web sites starting from a set of pages. It creates the menu bar (with javascript support) for each page. The site and menu bar look is themeable.

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.

Zarbi is a tool to create slideshows. Using a simple XML based input format, it can generates several outputs: HTML (single and splitted), PDF, LaTeX, TXT. Themes are available.

ZhDict provides command-line tools to aid English speakers in reading and understanding Chinese texts.

Antiexcel is a Microsoft-Excel file reader. It shows the excel file on a text console or an x-console. It can be used as an attachment viewer for any text-based email client ( ex. mutt)

ex2x is a unix/linux commandbased tool to convert German-Umlauts(äöüß) and any kind of Strings to xml entities. - Use this tool during the creation of WAPpages or any kind of XMLdcouments. - converting a huge amount of dynamicly created pages

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.

NOTE; scr2css almost worked. I stopped development, however, when I discovered "scurvy" http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/scurvy/ I dropped it like a bad smell. scurvy is a rather brilliant perl script allowing a user to create a screenplay in a pure text

Tools for extracting and transforming XML-like mark-up, embedded in source code comments, into proper external entities or well-formed XML files. Can be used for JavaDoc-like "literate programming", or embedding other build-related or CM metadata.