The PreTeXt Guide

There are two components to processing your document, the PreTeXt stylesheets and the xsltproc program. We work at the command-line inside of a terminal or console . If you do not know what this is, it will seem very primitive at first. Sometimes the old ways are the best ways. This will be called a “Command Prompt” in Windows or a “Terminal” on a Mac. In Linux it may be known as a “console” or a “shell”. A tutorial, which is Linux-specific, can be found at Ryan’s Tutorials

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ryanstutorials.net/linuxtutorial/

and certainly others exist.

The operating system on a Mac is built on Unix, which is very similar to Linux, so most of the directions here will be little changed between the two. Procedures can be very different in Windows (Appendix L ,Appendix M ). One alternative is CoCalc

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cocalc.com

which provides a full Linux computer for free in your web browser, so that may be an excellent place for initial experiments (Section 5.14 ).