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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-08-12 17:13:28 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-08-12 17:13:28 (GMT)
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Some minor updates.
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@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
Python main documentation -- in LaTeX
-------------------------------------
-This directory contains the LaTeX sources to the Python documentation.
-They now require LaTeX2e (LaTeX 2.09 compatibility is dropped).
+This directory contains the LaTeX sources to the Python documentation
+and tools required to support the formatting process. The documents
+now require LaTeX2e; LaTeX 2.09 compatibility has been dropped.
If you don't have LaTeX, or if you'd rather not format the
documentation yourself, you can ftp a tar file containing HTML, PDF,
@@ -16,12 +17,15 @@ The following are the LaTeX source files:
api/*.tex Python/C API Reference Manual
ext/*.tex Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter
lib/*.tex Python Library Reference
+ mac/*.tex Macintosh Library Modules
ref/*.tex Python Reference Manual
tut/*.tex Python Tutorial
-All use the "manual" document class and "python" package, derived from
-the old "myformat.sty" style file. These contains many macro
-definitions useful in documenting Python, and set some style parameters.
+Most use the "manual" document class and "python" package, derived from
+the old "myformat.sty" style file. The Macintosh Library Modules
+document uses the "howto" document class instead. These contains many
+macro definitions useful in documenting Python, and set some style
+parameters.
There's a Makefile to call LaTeX and the other utilities in the right
order and the right number of times. This will produce DVI files for
@@ -150,7 +154,7 @@ Making HTML files
The LaTeX documents can be converted to HTML using Nikos Drakos'
LaTeX2HTML converter. See the Makefile; after some twiddling, "make
-l2h" should do the trick.
+html" should do the trick.
What else is in here?