Annotate relies on a configuration file, annotate.conf, for everything that is supposed to be customized by the user. To generate an initial configuration, Annotate is shipped with an interactive Perl script. It will ask you a few questions about the most important things to configure and will create a working configuration. You can decide whether you want to configure Annotate for the authoring station, for the web server or for both.

So the first thing to to is to run the installation script:

perl install.pl

Put the resulting file (annotate.conf) into the /usr/local/etc directory. If you cannot put it there, please refer to the section called “The right place for the configuration file” for details.

For a complete list of configuration options, please have a look at Chapter 3, The annotate.conf configuration file.