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@@ -2,11 +2,16 @@ These scripts and Makefile fragment are used to convert the Python
documentation in LaTeX format to SGML. XML is also supported as a
target, but is unlikely to be used.
-This material is highly preliminary and incomplete. The XML omnibus
-package developed by the Python XML-SIG is required. See
+This material is preliminary and incomplete. The XML omnibus package
+developed by the Python XML-SIG is required. See
http://www.python.org/sigs/xml-sig/ for more information on the
package.
+To convert all documents to SGML:
+
+ cd Doc/
+ make -f tools/sgmlconv/Makefile
+
To convert a document to SGML:
cd Doc/<document-dir>
@@ -19,5 +24,6 @@ To generate XML instead, use:
Note that building the second target format is fast because both
conversions use the same intermediate format (an ESIS event stream).
+This is true regardless of whether you build SGML or XML first.
Please send comments and bug reports to python-docs@python.org.