| Python main documentation -- in LaTeX |
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| This directory contains the LaTeX sources to the Python documentation |
| and a published article about Python. |
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| The following are the LaTeX source files: |
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| tut.tex The tutorial |
| lib.tex, lib[1-5].tex The library reference |
| ref.tex The reference manual |
| qua.tex, quabib.bib Article published in CWI Quarterly |
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| All except qua.tex use the style option file "myformat.sty". This |
| contains some macro 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, |
| a.k.a. A4, or roughly 8.27 x 11.7 inch) by default. To use US paper, |
| comment out the line saying \input{a4wide.sty} in myformat.sty (you |
| may want to fiddle with lay-out parameters like \textwidth and |
| \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 |
| 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 |
| order and the right number of times. This will produce dvi files for |
| each document made; to preview them, use xdvi. Printing depends on |
| local conventions; at my site, I use dvips and lpr. For example: |
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| make ref # creates ref.dvi |
| xdvi ref # preview it |
| dvips -Ppsc ref | lpr -Ppsc # print it on printer "psc". |
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| If you don't have latex, you can ftp the pre-formatted PosytScript |
| versions of the documents; see "../misc/FTP" for information about |
| ftp-ing Python files. |