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2. Installing PSGML

To install PSGML you first need to uncompress and unpack the source archive. This is done with the gunzip and tar commands.

gunzip psgml-1.2.0.tar.gz; tar xf psgml-1.2.0.tar

This should create a subdirectory to the current directory with the source code. This directory contains a configure command (see the file INSTALL for more information about configure). You can use the configure command to configure the package or you can load the file `psgml-maint' and execute the psgml-compile-files command.

Place the `*.el' and the `*.elc' files in a directory where Emacs can find it (i.e. one of the directories in the load-path variable, you can add a directory to this variable in your `.emacs'.)

If you use the configure approach, compile psgml with make and the you can run make install to install it in the system library `site-lisp'. The location of `site-lisp' is figured out by configure, but you can change it in the `Makefile'.

Put the following line in your .emacs:

(autoload 'sgml-mode "psgml" "Major mode to edit SGML files." t) (autoload 'xml-mode "psgml" "Major mode to edit XML files." t)

You may also want to set up search paths for external entities, See section 4. The Entity Manager.

The `psgml.info' is the documentation for PSGML in the info format. You can read this with the Emacs command C-u C-h i. You can also install the file in your systems info directory and edit the `dir' file to include `psgml.info' in the menu.

The info file `psgml.info' is created from the texinfo file `psgml.texi'. The texinfo file can also be used to create a hard copy of the documentation. To do this you need the TeX program and a copy of `texinfo.tex'.