38.4. Tools Used to Produce This Book (Revision #2)

38.4.1. Hardware

A used IBM Thinkpad, model 760XL laptop (P166, 104 meg RAM) running Red Hat 7.1/7.3. Sure, it's slow and has a funky keyboard, but it beats the heck out of a No. 2 pencil and a Big Chief tablet.

Update: upgraded to a 770Z Thinkpad (P2-366, 192 meg RAM) running FC3. Anyone feel like donating a later-model laptop to a starving writer <g>?

Update: upgraded to a T60 Thinkpad running Mandriva 2010. No longer starving <g>.

38.4.2. Software and Printware

1. Bram Moolenaar's powerful SGML-aware vim text editor.
2. OpenJade, a DSSSL rendering engine for converting SGML documents into other formats.
3. Norman Walsh's DSSSL stylesheets.
4. DocBook, The Definitive Guide, by Norman Walsh and Leonard Muellner (O'Reilly, ISBN 1-56592-580-7). This is still the standard reference for anyone attempting to write a document in Docbook SGML format.