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- Python main documentation -- in LaTeX
- -------------------------------------
-
- This directory contains the LaTeX sources to the Python documentation
- and a published article about Python.
-
- The Python Reference Manual is no longer maintained in LaTeX. It is
- now a FrameMaker document. The FrameMaker 5.0 files (ref.book,
- ref*.doc) as well as PostScript generated (ref.ps) from it are in the
- subdirectory ref/.
-
- If you don't have LaTeX, you can ftp a tar file containing PostScript
- of the 3 main documents. It should be in the same place where you
- fetched the main Python distribution, in a file named
- "pythondoc-ps<version>.tar.gz". (See "../Misc/FAQ" for more
- information about ftp-ing Python files.)
-
- The following are the LaTeX source files:
-
- tut.tex The tutorial
- lib.tex, lib*.tex The library reference
- ext.tex How to extend Python
- qua.tex, quabib.bib Article published in CWI Quarterly
-
- All except qua.tex (which isn't built by the default target) use the
- style option file "myformat.sty". This contains some macro
- definitions and sets some style parameters.
-
- You need the makeindex utility to produce the index for 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. PostScript is produced
- by the same Makefile target that produces the DVI files. This uses
- the dvips tool. Printing depends on local conventions; at my site, I
- use lp. For example:
-
- make lib # create lib.dvi and lib.ps
- xdvi lib # preview lib.dvi
- lp lib.ps # print on default printer
-
-
- Making HTML files
- -----------------
-
- The Tutorial and Extensions manual can be converted to HTML using
- Nikos Drakos' LaTeX2HTML converter. See the Makefile; after some
- twiddling, "make l2h" should do the trick.
-
- The Library manual doesn't work well with LaTeX2HTML; instead, there's
- a Python script texi2html.py in this directory that can be run on the
- texinfo generated as an intermediate step for generating the INFO
- files as described in the next section. The command "make libwww"
- should do this.
-
-
- Making the INFO version of the Library Reference
- ------------------------------------------------
-
- The Library Reference can also be read in hypertext form using the
- Emacs INFO system. This uses Texinfo format as an intermediate step.
- It requires texinfo version 2 (we have used 2.14).
-
- To build the info files (python-lib.info*), say "make lib.info". This
- takes a while, even on a machine with a 100 MHz clock and 64 Mbytes of
- RAM :-). Please ignore the output, which appears like error messages
- but really is debugging output only.
-
- You may have to change a site dependency in fix.el: if texinfo 2.xx
- isn't installed by default at your site, you'll have to install it
- (use archie to locate a version and ftp to fetch it). If you can't
- install it in the standard Emacs load path, uncomment the line
- containing a "(setq load-path ...)" statement, and fill in the path
- where you put it.
-
- The files used by the conversion process are:
-
- partparse.py Python script that converts LaTeX sources to
- texi files.
-
- texi{pre,post}.dat Files placed before and after the result.
-
- fix.el Elisp file executed by Emacs. Two calls to
- 'texinfo-all-menus-update are necessary in
- some cases.
-
- fix_hack Shell script to fix the results of the
- "underscore hack". {\ptt \char'137} is
- back-translated to a simple underscore. This
- is needed for the texindex program.
-
- whichlibs Shell script to print a list of lib*.tex files
- to be processed.
-
- Thanks for Jan-Hein B\"uhrman for writing and debugging the convertor
- and related scripts, and for fixing the LaTeX sources and writing new
- macros for myformat.sty! More thanks to Dave Ascher for adapting
- myformat.sty to the new LaTeX release, to Fred Drake for revamping the
- partparse.py and texi2html.py scripts, to the many anonymous authors
- of library manual sections and corrections (too many to mention).
-
- Many thanks to Robin Friedrich for the conversion of the Reference
- Manual to FrameMaker and his work on its index.
-