diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 80bd8dee2..970f2cb38 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,24 +1,33 @@
-# GURPS Character Sheet
+## GURPS Character Sheet
 
-GURPS Character Sheet (GCS) is a stand-alone, interactive, character sheet editor that allows you to build characters for the [GURPS](http://www.sjgames.com/gurps) 4<sup>th</sup> Edition roleplaying game system.
+GURPS Character Sheet (GCS) is a stand-alone, interactive, character sheet
+editor that allows you to build characters for the
+[GURPS](http://www.sjgames.com/gurps) 4<sup>th</sup> Edition roleplaying game
+system.
 
-## Building from the command line
+### Development
 
-1. Make sure you have JDK 10 installed. You can download it for your platform here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
+I generally use the latest `Eclipse IDE for Eclipse Commiters` package from
+http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/ for developing GCS. If you
+are using Windows, make sure you set the
+`General > Workspace > Default Text Encoding` preference to UTF8, as many
+source files contain UTF8 characters and the Windows default encoding will
+choke on them.
 
-2. Make sure you have Apache ANT installed. You can download it for your platform here: https://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
+### Building from the command line
+
+1. Make sure you have JDK 10 installed. You can download it for your platform
+   here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
+
+2. Make sure you have Apache ANT installed. You can download it for your
+   platform here: https://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
 
 3. Clone the source repositories:
 
   ```
-  % git clone https://github.com/richardwilkes/com.lowagie.text
   % git clone https://github.com/richardwilkes/gcs
-  % git clone https://github.com/richardwilkes/gcs_library
-  % git clone https://github.com/richardwilkes/gnu.trove
-  % git clone https://github.com/richardwilkes/org.apache.commons.logging
-  % git clone https://github.com/richardwilkes/org.apache.fontbox
-  % git clone https://github.com/richardwilkes/org.apache.pdfbox
-  % git clone https://github.com/richardwilkes/toolkit
+  % cd gcs
+  % ant clone-deps
   ```
 
 4. Build and bundle the code for your platform:
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index abc65d5ab..550612221 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -205,7 +205,38 @@
 		<symlink if:true="${platform.mac}" action="delete" link="${dist.root}/Applications"/>
 	    <delete dir="${build.dir}"/>
 	</target>
-	
+
+	<target name="clone-deps">
+		<exec executable="git" dir="..">
+			<arg value="clone"/>
+			<arg value="https://github.com/richardwilkes/org.apache.commons.logging"/>
+		</exec>
+		<exec executable="git" dir="..">
+			<arg value="clone"/>
+			<arg value="https://github.com/richardwilkes/org.apache.fontbox"/>
+		</exec>
+		<exec executable="git" dir="..">
+			<arg value="clone"/>
+			<arg value="https://github.com/richardwilkes/org.apache.pdfbox"/>
+		</exec>
+		<exec executable="git" dir="..">
+			<arg value="clone"/>
+			<arg value="https://github.com/richardwilkes/gnu.trove"/>
+		</exec>
+		<exec executable="git" dir="..">
+			<arg value="clone"/>
+			<arg value="https://github.com/richardwilkes/com.lowagie.text"/>
+		</exec>
+		<exec executable="git" dir="..">
+			<arg value="clone"/>
+			<arg value="https://github.com/richardwilkes/toolkit"/>
+		</exec>
+		<exec executable="git" dir="..">
+			<arg value="clone"/>
+			<arg value="https://github.com/richardwilkes/gcs_library"/>
+		</exec>
+	</target>
+
 	<target name="pull">
 		<exec executable="git" dir="../org.apache.commons.logging">
 			<arg value="pull"/>