Commit f084aed3 authored by Georg Brandl's avatar Georg Brandl

Update README.

parent 961e6fd3
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Building the docs
=================
You need to install Python 2.4 or higher; the toolset used to build the docs are
written in Python. The toolset used to build the documentation is called
*Sphinx*, it is not included in this tree, but maintained separately in the
Python Subversion repository. Also needed are Jinja, a templating engine
(included in Sphinx as a Subversion external), and optionally Pygments, a code
highlighter.
You need to have Python 2.4 or higher installed; the toolset used to build the
docs is written in Python. It is called *Sphinx*, it is not included in this
tree, but maintained separately. Also needed are the docutils, supplying the
base markup that Sphinx uses, Jinja, a templating engine, and optionally
Pygments, a code highlighter.
Using make
......@@ -42,29 +41,29 @@ Available make targets are:
convert them into a single Compiled HTML (.chm) file -- these are popular
under Microsoft Windows, but very handy on every platform.
To create the CHM file, you need to run the Microsoft HTML Help Workshop
over the generated project (.hhp) file.
To create the CHM file, you need to run the Microsoft HTML Help Workshop over
the generated project (.hhp) file.
* "latex", which builds LaTeX source files that can be run with "pdflatex"
to produce PDF documents.
* "latex", which builds LaTeX source files as input to "pdflatex" to produce
PDF documents.
* "text", which builds a plain text file for each source file.
* "linkcheck", which checks all external references to see whether they are
broken, redirected or malformed, and outputs this information to stdout
as well as a plain-text (.txt) file.
broken, redirected or malformed, and outputs this information to stdout as
well as a plain-text (.txt) file.
* "changes", which builds an overview over all versionadded/versionchanged/
deprecated items in the current version. This is meant as a help for the
writer of the "What's New" document.
* "coverage", which builds a coverage overview for standard library modules
and C API.
* "coverage", which builds a coverage overview for standard library modules and
C API.
* "pydoc-topics", which builds a Python module containing a dictionary
with plain text documentation for the labels defined in
`tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py` -- pydoc needs these to show topic
and keyword help.
* "pydoc-topics", which builds a Python module containing a dictionary with
plain text documentation for the labels defined in
`tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py` -- pydoc needs these to show topic and
keyword help.
A "make update" updates the Subversion checkouts in `tools/`.
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or by installing it from PyPI.
You can optionally also install Pygments, either as a checkout via ::
You can optionally also install Pygments, either as a checkout via ::
svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/external/Pygments-1.3.1/pygments tools/pygments
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