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Python main documentation -- in LaTeX
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This directory contains the LaTeX sources to the Python documentation
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and a published article about Python.
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If you don't have LaTeX, you can ftp a tar file containing PostScript
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of the 4 main documents. It should be in the same place where you
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fetched the main Python distribution, in a file named
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"pythondoc-ps<version>.tar.gz". (See "../Misc/FAQ" for more
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information about ftp-ing Python files.)
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The following are the LaTeX source files:
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tut.tex The tutorial
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lib.tex, lib*.tex The library reference
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ref.tex, ref[1-8].tex The reference manual
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ext.tex How to extend Python
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qua.tex, quabib.bib Article published in CWI Quarterly
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All except qua.tex (which isn't built by the default target) use the
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style option file "myformat.sty". This contains some macro
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definitions and sets some style parameters.
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The style parameters are set up for European paper size (21 x 29.7 cm,
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a.k.a. A4, or roughly 8.27 x 11.7 inch) by default. To use US paper,
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comment out the line saying \input{a4wide.sty} in myformat.sty (you
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may want to fiddle with lay-out parameters like \textwidth and
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\textheight, since the default format uses rather wide margins).
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You need the makeindex utility to produce the index for ref.tex
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lib.tex; you need bibtex to produce the references list for qua.tex.
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There's a Makefile to call LaTeX and the other utilities in the right
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order and the right number of times. This will produce DVI files for
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each document made; to preview them, use xdvi. PostScript is produced
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by the same Makefile target that produces the DVI files. This uses
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the dvips tool. Printing depends on local conventions; at my site, I
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use lpr. For example:
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make ref # creates ref.dvi and ref.ps
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xdvi ref # preview it ref.dvi
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lpr -Ppsc ref.ps # print it on printer "psc".
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Making HTML files
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The Reference, Tutorial and Extensions manual can all be converted to
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HTML using Nikos Drakos' LaTeX2HTML converter. See the Makefile;
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after some twiddling, "make l2h" should do the trick.
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The Library manual doesn't work well with LaTeX2HTML; instead, there's
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a Python script texi2html.py in this directory that can be run on the
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texinfo generated as an intermediate step for generating the INFO
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files as described in the next section. The command "make libwww"
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should do this.
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Making the INFO version of the Library Reference
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The Library Reference can also be read in hypertext form using the
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Emacs INFO system. This uses Texinfo format as an intermediate step.
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It requires texinfo version 2 (we have used 2.14).
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To build the info files (python-lib.info*), say "make lib.info". This
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takes a while, even on a machine with a 100 MHz clock and 64 Mbytes of
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RAM :-). Please ignore the output, which appears like error messages
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but really is debugging output only.
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You may have to change a site dependency in fix.el: if texinfo 2.xx
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isn't installed by default at your site, you'll have to install it
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(use archie to locate a version and ftp to fetch it). If you can't
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install it in the standard Emacs load path, uncomment the line
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containing a "(setq load-path ...)" statement, and fill in the path
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where you put it.
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The files used by the conversion process are:
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partparse.py Python script that converts LaTeX sources to
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texi files.
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texi{pre,post}.dat Files placed before and after the result.
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fix.el Elisp file executed by Emacs. Two calls to
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'texinfo-all-menus-update are necessary in
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some cases.
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fix_hack Shell script to fix the results of the
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"underscore hack". {\ptt \char'137} is
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back-translated to a simple underscore. This
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is needed for the texindex program.
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whichlibs Shell script to print a list of lib*.tex files
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to be processed.
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A Million thanks for Jan-Hein B\"uhrman for writing and debugging the
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convertor and related scripts, and for fixing the LaTeX sources and
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writing new macros for myformat.sty!
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