1 Python main documentation -- in LaTeX
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4 This directory contains the LaTeX sources to the Python documentation
5 and a published article about Python.
7 The following are the LaTeX source files:
10 lib.tex, lib[1-5].tex The library reference
11 ref.tex, ref[1-8].tex The reference manual
12 qua.tex, quabib.bib Article published in CWI Quarterly
14 All except qua.tex use the style option file "myformat.sty". This
15 contains some macro definitions and sets some style parameters.
17 The style parameters are set up for European paper size (21 x 29.7 cm,
18 a.k.a. A4, or roughly 8.27 x 11.7 inch) by default. To use US paper,
19 comment out the line saying \input{a4wide.sty} in myformat.sty (you
20 may want to fiddle with lay-out parameters like \textwidth and
21 \textheight, since the default format uses rather wide margins).
23 You need the makeindex utility to produce the index for ref.tex
24 lib.tex; you need bibtex to produce the references list for qua.tex.
26 There's a Makefile to call latex and the other utilities in the right
27 order and the right number of times. This will produce dvi files for
28 each document made; to preview them, use xdvi. Printing depends on
29 local conventions; at my site, I use dvips and lpr. For example:
31 make ref # creates ref.dvi
33 dvips -Ppsc ref | lpr -Ppsc # print it on printer "psc".
35 If you don't have latex, you can ftp the pre-formatted PosytScript
36 versions of the documents; see "../misc/FTP" for information about
39 Making the INFO version of the Library Reference
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42 The Library Reference can now also be read in hypertext form using the
43 Emacs INFO system. This uses Texinfo format as an intermediate step.
44 It requires texinfo version 2 (we have used 2.14).
46 To build the info files (python-lib.info*), say "make libinfo". This
47 takes a while, even on machines with 33 MIPS and 16 Mbytes :-) You can
50 But first you'll have to change a site dependency in fix.el: if
51 texinfo 2.xx is installed by default at your site, comment out the two
52 lines starting with "(setq load-path"; if it isn't, change the path!
53 (I'm afraid that if you don't have texinfo 2.xx this won't work -- use
54 archie to locate a version and ftp to fetch it.)
56 The files used by the conversion process are:
58 partparse.py the dirty-written Python script that converts
59 LaTeX sources to texi files. Output is left in
62 texi{pre,post}.dat these files will be put before and after the
65 fix.sh calls emacs in order to update all the nodes and
66 menus. After this, makeinfo will convert the
67 texinfo-source to the info-file(s). Assumption:
68 the texi-source is called `@out.texi'
70 fix.el the elisp-file executed by emacs. Two calls to
71 'texinfo-all-menus-update are necessary in
74 fix_hack executable shell script that fixes the results
75 of the underscore hack. {\ptt \char'137} is
76 back-translated to a simple underscore. This is
77 needed for the texindex program
79 handy.el some handy Emacs-macro's that helped converting
80 ``old'' documentation to a format that could be
81 understood by the converter scipt (partparse.py).
82 (You don't really need this, but, as the name
83 says, these macros are "handy")
85 A Million thanks for Jan-Hein B\"uhrman for writing and debugging the
86 convertor and related scripts, and for fixing the LaTeX sources and
87 writing new macros for myformat.sty!