Commit d6b7950c authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

Clarified some comments about the requirements on the TeX installation.

Added brief section on the howto support.
parent 53eca99d
......@@ -69,7 +69,10 @@ documentation are written in Python.
The simplest way to get the rest of the tools in the configuration we
used is to install the teTeX TeX distribution, version 0.9. More
information is available on teTeX at <http://www.tug.org/tetex/>.
This is a UNIX-only TeX distribution at this time.
This is a UNIX-only TeX distribution at this time. Note that the 0.9
release is still in testing; this documentation release was tested
with the 18 Mar 1998 release. We'll be upgrading to the final version
when it becomes available.
If you don't want to get teTeX, or if you're not using UNIX, here is
what you'll need:
......@@ -85,7 +88,10 @@ To create DVI, PDF, or PostScript files:
To create PDF files:
- pdflatex. We used the one in the teTeX 0.9 distribution
(version 0.11 at the time of this writing).
(version 0.12f at the time of this writing). Versions even
a couple of patchlevels different are highly likely to
fail due to syntax changes for some of the pdftex
primitives.
To create PostScript files:
......@@ -144,6 +150,18 @@ happy with it and hope that eventually FrameMaker will be able to
produce HTML without third party help.
What else is in here?
---------------------
There is a new LaTeX document class called "howto". This is used for
the new series of Python HOWTO documents which is being coordinated by
Andrew Kuchling <amk@acm.org>. The file howto.tex is a commented
template which may be used an example. A script to "do the right
thing" to format a howto document is included as tools/mkhowto.sh.
Support for this document class is still new, but is expected to
evolve rapidly.
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