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diff --git a/Doc/README.txt b/Doc/README.txt index b343aca..7fac730 100644 --- a/Doc/README.txt +++ b/Doc/README.txt @@ -7,14 +7,13 @@ available at http://docs.python.org/download/. Documentation on the authoring Python documentation, including information about both style and markup, is available in the "Documenting Python" chapter of the -documentation. There's also a chapter intended to point out differences to -those familiar with the previous docs written in LaTeX. +documentation. Building the docs ================= -You need to have Python 2.4 or higher installed; the toolset used to build the +You need to have Python 2 installed; the toolset used to build the docs is written in Python. It is called *Sphinx*, it is not included in this tree, but maintained separately. Also needed are the docutils, supplying the base markup that Sphinx uses, Jinja, a templating engine, and optionally @@ -33,6 +32,9 @@ to check out the necessary toolset in the `tools/` subdirectory and build the HTML output files. To view the generated HTML, point your favorite browser at the top-level index `build/html/index.html` after running "make". +On Windows, we try to emulate the Makefile as closely as possible with a +``make.bat`` file. + Available make targets are: * "html", which builds standalone HTML files for offline viewing. @@ -65,43 +67,23 @@ Available make targets are: `tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py` -- pydoc needs these to show topic and keyword help. + * "suspicious", which checks the parsed markup for text that looks like + malformed and thus unconverted reST. + A "make update" updates the Subversion checkouts in `tools/`. Without make ------------ -You'll need to install the Sphinx package, either by checking it out via :: - - svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/external/Sphinx-0.6.7/sphinx tools/sphinx - -or by installing it from PyPI. - -Then, you need to install Docutils, either by checking it out via :: - - svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/external/docutils-0.6/docutils tools/docutils - -or by installing it from http://docutils.sf.net/. - -You also need Jinja2, either by checking it out via :: - - svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/external/Jinja-2.3.1/jinja2 tools/jinja2 - -or by installing it from PyPI. - -You can optionally also install Pygments, either as a checkout via :: - - svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/external/Pygments-1.3.1/pygments tools/pygments - -or from PyPI at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygments. - +Install the Sphinx package and its dependencies from PyPI. -Then, make an output directory, e.g. under `build/`, and run :: +Then, from the ``Docs`` directory, run :: - python tools/sphinx-build.py -b<builder> . build/<outputdirectory> + sphinx-build -b<builder> . build/<builder> -where `<builder>` is one of html, text, latex, or htmlhelp (for explanations see -the make targets above). +where ``<builder>`` is one of html, text, latex, or htmlhelp (for explanations +see the make targets above). Contributing |