Commit 71ec03b7 authored by Guido van Rossum's avatar Guido van Rossum

Adapted to migration of reference manual to Frame.

parent 1775a517
......@@ -4,8 +4,13 @@ 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The Python Reference Manual is no longer maintained in LaTeX.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 4 main documents. It should be in the same place where you
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.)
......@@ -14,7 +19,6 @@ The following are the LaTeX source files:
tut.tex The tutorial
lib.tex, lib*.tex The library reference
ref.tex, ref[1-8].tex The reference manual
ext.tex How to extend Python
qua.tex, quabib.bib Article published in CWI Quarterly
......@@ -22,33 +26,27 @@ 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.
The style parameters are set up for European paper size (21 x 29.7 cm,
a.k.a. A4, or roughly 8.27 x 11.7 inch) by default. To use US paper,
comment out the line saying \input{a4wide.sty} in myformat.sty (you
may want to fiddle with lay-out parameters like \textwidth and
\textheight, since the default format uses rather wide margins).
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.
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 lpr. For example:
use lp. For example:
make ref # creates ref.dvi and ref.ps
xdvi ref # preview it ref.dvi
lpr -Ppsc ref.ps # print it on printer "psc".
make lib # create lib.dvi and lib.ps
xdvi lib # preview lib.dvi
lp lib.ps # print on default printer
Making HTML files
-----------------
The Reference, Tutorial and Extensions manual can all be converted to
HTML using Nikos Drakos' LaTeX2HTML converter. See the Makefile;
after some twiddling, "make l2h" should do the trick.
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
......@@ -95,6 +93,12 @@ fix_hack Shell script to fix the results of the
whichlibs Shell script to print a list of lib*.tex files
to be processed.
A Million 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!
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.
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