From 86bc7b01b59cadc720ff8a84219afc66ffb1f6a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:21:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] General comments on what's here and how to try it out. Note dependence on the XML package. --- Doc/tools/sgmlconv/README | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Doc/tools/sgmlconv/README diff --git a/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/README b/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b7bdddbdd5c --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/README @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +These scripts and Makefile fragment are used to convert the Python +documentation in LaTeX format to SGML. XML is also supported as a +target, but is unlikely to be used. + +This material is highly preliminary and incomplete. The XML omnibus +package developed by the Python XML-SIG is required. See +http://www.python.org/sigs/xml-sig/ for more information on the +package. + +To convert a document to SGML: + + cd Doc/ + make -f ../tools/sgmlconv/make.rules TOOLSDIR=../tools + +To generate XML instead, use: + + cd Doc/ + make -f ../tools/sgmlconv/make.rules TOOLSDIR=../tools xml + +Note that building the second target format is fast because both +conversions use the same intermediate format (an ESIS event stream). + +Please send comments and bug reports to python-docs@python.org.