Installation guide
To use ptx2pdf you need (a) XeTeX and (b) the ptx2pdf macro package. If you don't have XeTeX installed you need to do that first.
Installing XeTeX
The most convenient way to setup a TeX system is trough installing TeXLive. TeXLive is available for all major platforms, though Mac users might want to use MacTeX and Windows users might be interested in using the MikTeX distribution.
Minimal XeTeX distro If you don't want a full blown TeX distribution on your machine, you might want to use the XeTeX.
Installing ptx2pdf
The ptx2pdf macros are held in a Subversion (version control) repository. You can access this in several ways:
(a) With a web browser, go to http://scripts.sil.org/svn-view/sfscripture/TRUNK/ptx2pdf/ . Here, you can view the individual files, access their revision history, etc.
(b) At that page, click the "Download tarball" link. This will download an archive "ptx2pdf.tar.gz" containing all the macro files. (For Windows users: WinZip can expand .tar.gz archives; there are also Windows versions of the Unix "tar" command available.)
(c) If you're familiar with Subversion (if not, just ignore this), you can check out a working copy with a command such as
or the equivalent in a graphical interface tool like TortoiseSVN or RapidSVN (note that you use "svn-public" in the URL for checkout, but "svn-view" for web browsers).
Next step is to place the macro files at the appropriate place in your texmf tree. This would typically be something like ~/<user>/Library/texmf/tex/ptx2pdf/ (Mac) or /usr/share/texmf/tex/ptx2pdf/ (Linux) or winpath (Windows). (explain how to set the path.
