Python main documentation -- in LaTeX ------------------------------------- This directory contains the LaTeX sources to the Python documentation and a published article about Python. The following are the LaTeX source files: tut.tex The tutorial lib.tex, lib[1-5].tex The library reference ref.tex The reference manual qua.tex, quabib.bib Article published in CWI Quarterly All except qua.tex use the style option file "myformat.sty". This contains some macro definitions and sets some style parameters. All documents are set up for European paper size ("A4": 21 x 29.7 cm) by default. To use US paper, remove the "a4wide" style option from the \documentstyle options list in the first line of the main .tex files (you may want to fiddle with the lay-out parameters, since the default format uses rather wide margins to my taste). You need the makeindex utility to produce the index for ref.tex lib.tex; you need bibtex to produce the references list for qua.tex. 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 each document made; to preview them, use xdvi. Printing depends on local conventions; at my site, I use dvips and lpr. For example: make ref # creates ref.dvi xdvi ref # preview it dvips -Ppsc ref | lpr -Ppsc # print it on printer "psc". If you don't have latex, you can ftp the pre-formatted PosytScript versions of the documents; see "../misc/FTP" for information about ftp-ing Python files.