Install XEP

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Note: XEP can only be installed after a Java virtual machine has been installed, see Install Java.

Request a license for the free Personal Edition of XEP at http://www.renderx.com/download/personal.html.

The license key will be emailed to you.

Collect your email and follow the instructions in the email with the license key.

Save the attachment called "license.xml" to your home directory.

Once you are on the renderx site, click the "Browse" button, and open the file "license.xml" you just saved.

Tick XEP 4.5 (or higher), the Personal edition.

Press button "Get software".

A new page will show, with a link to the software to download. Click this link to download it, and save it to your home directory.

Open a terminal, and type

ls

to see the file is there. It is named "xep-4.5-xxxxxxxx-personal.zip", where xxxxxxxx is a date, and the "4.5" can be a higher version number too. The file "license.xml" should be there too.

To uppack XEP, type

unzip xep-4.5-xxxxxxxx-personal.zip

(with the x's changed to the date).

Look up the location where Java was installed, e.g. "jre1.5.0_04", and then type

jre1.5.0_04/bin/java -jar setup-4.5-xxxxxxxx-personal.jar

(with the x's changed to the date).

A graphical screen will show up. Scroll the license down to the end, and click button "Yes, I accept".

Check the paths, and click button "Install" and then "Finish".

If you left the paths as they were, it will be installed in

~/XEP

Make a note of the directory where XEP got installed.

In Bibledit, under menu Preferences, Formatter, enter the directory where XEP is installed. Ensure to give the full path, by using the Open button.

Note

Bibledit needs write access to the folder where XEP has been installed. If you follow the installation instructions above, that means you install XEP as a normal user, not as the superuser, write access is granted. If you install XEP somewhere else, make sure Bibledit has write access to that folder.

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