Installation notes

Depending on your preferences, there are several ways to install the software.

Easy installation - one file contains everything to start except styles

• For Windows, the distribution PerlPoint-binary-win contains perlpoint.exe , which is a full PerlPoint installation of the perlpoint converter from PerlPoint-Package , with all available add-ons.
• PerlPoint-styles is recommended supplementary to have a few styles to start with.
• At the moment, the alternative converters pp2html and pp2latex are not in this package.
• A similar package for Linux will hopefully follow.

Traditional way - install perl and modules

First and as a prerequisite, perl 5.003 or higher needs to be installed. Then you can download the following packages either from the project page or from CPAN, or you can use tools like cpanp, cpan or ppm. Either way, you need

• PerlPoint-Package : the base framework , bundled with the converter perlpoint . With this package, you can produce SDF.

.. and then either

• PerlPoint-Generator-XML : a generator producing XML documents. It is the base of the various PerlPoint::Generator::XML::... formatters, see below. This package allows to produce XML documents according to an own, adaptable DTD.
• PerlPoint-Generator-XML-XHTML : an XML formatter distribution to produce XHTML documents, either paged or monolythic.
• PerlPoint-Template-Traditional : a template engine implementing the traditional PerlPoint template language, introduced by Lorenz Domke with pp2html (see below). This package allows to use all styles that are based on that format, as the examples in PerlPoint::styles (next package). Additionally, it allows to write own styles with the available placeholders. This is a traditional simple template engine, but surprisingly suitable.
• PerlPoint-Template-TT2 : a template engine that allows to write style templates the popular Template Toolkit way. An example style can be found in PerlPoint::styles .
• PerlPoint-styles : an example collection of PerlPoint styles, ready to use. Styles define layouts, so you can switch layouts with a simple option. - Please note that this installation requires manual action to copy the styles to a directory of your choice.
• More generators, formatters, template engines and styles might be available, please see the mentioned resources.

Or you can use traditional, format specific converters:

• PerlPoint-Converters : installs pp2html , a well working, heavily configurable converter to paged HTML, and pp2latex , a converter to LaTeX that is declared alpha software but successfully used for various talk materials etc..