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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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The Python Reference Manual is no longer maintained in Latex. It is
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now a FrameMaker document. The FrameMaker 5.0 files (ref.book,
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ref*.doc) as well as PostScript generated (ref.ps) from it are in the
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subdirectory ref/. (See ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/framereader for
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a free reader for FrameMaker documents, for some platforms.) Many
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thanks to Robin Friedrich for the conversion of the Reference Manual
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to FrameMaker and his work on its index.
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If you don't have Latex, you can ftp a tar file containing PostScript
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of all documents. It should be in the same place where you fetched
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the main Python distribution (try http://www.python.org or
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ftp://ftp.python.org).
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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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ext.tex How to extend Python
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api.tex Reference for the Python/C API
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All use the style option file "myformat.sty". This contains some
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macro definitions and sets some style parameters.
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You need the makeindex utility to produce the index for lib.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 lp. For example:
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make lib # create lib.dvi and lib.ps
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xdvi lib # preview lib.dvi
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lp lib.ps # print on default printer
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Using Times fonts
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As distributed, the Latex documents use the default Tex fonts (CMR).
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These qre quite ugly. If you have the "PSfont" Latex add-on
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installed, you can produce versions using Times fonts (and Courier for
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fixed text) by inserting "times," in the list of options in the
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documentstyle macro in the first line of the files lib.tex, tut.tex,
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ext.tex, api.tex, e.g.
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\documentstyle[twoside,times,myformat]{report}
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Making HTML files
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The Latex documents can be converted to HTML using Nikos Drakos'
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Latex2html converter. See the Makefile; after some twiddling, "make
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l2h" should do the trick.
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For the reference manual, I use Harlequin's webmaker. I'm not very
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happy with it and hope that eventually FrameMaker will be able to
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produce HTML without third party help.
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