Chapter 7. Companion tools
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## Chapter 7. Companion tools

- Inkscape, an excellent drawing tool natively supporting SVG.

- MiKTeX, an excellent TEX distribution for Windows.

- XMLmind XML Editor, a visual XML editor with built-in support for DocBook 5. There are many fine XML editors but this one

  - has a free Personal Edition allowing to use it to create documentation for Open Source projects such as Scilab,

  - has a configuration specially designed to support the Scilab DocBook 5 subset.

  This Scilab configuration is available as an add-on. This add-on may be downloaded and installed directly within XMLmind XML Editor using menu item Options|Install Add-ons. But before being able to do that, you must specify where to find such add-on. Fortunately this is done once for all:

  1. Use menu item Options|Preferences.

  2. Click on the "Install Add-ons" item in the left pane.

  3. Click the Add button found at the right of the "Download add-ons from these servers" list.

  4. Specify the following URL "`http://www.scilab.org/download/scilab_config.xxe_addon`" when prompted, then click OK.

  5. Click OK to close the Preferences dialog box.

  From now, you can use menu item Options|Install Add-ons and select the add-on called "A configuration for the Scilab subset of DocBook 5" from the list of all available add-ons.

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