diff --git a/Doc/README.txt b/Doc/README.txt
index 4a157d5..f4f6d81 100644
--- a/Doc/README.txt
+++ b/Doc/README.txt
@@ -3,36 +3,34 @@
 
 This directory contains the reStructuredText (reST) sources to the Python
 documentation.  You don't need to build them yourself, prebuilt versions are
-available at http://docs.python.org/download/.
+available at <http://docs.python.org/download/>.
 
 Documentation on the authoring Python documentation, including information about
 both style and markup, is available in the "Documenting Python" chapter of the
-developers guide (http://docs.python.org/devguide/documenting.html).
-There's also a chapter intended to point out differences to
-those familiar with the previous docs written in LaTeX.
+developers guide <http://docs.python.org/devguide/documenting.html>.
 
 
 Building the docs
 =================
 
-You need to have Python 2.4 or higher installed; the toolset used to build the
-docs is written in Python.  It is called *Sphinx*, it is not included in this
-tree, but maintained separately.  Also needed are the docutils, supplying the
-base markup that Sphinx uses, Jinja, a templating engine, and optionally
-Pygments, a code highlighter.
+You need to have Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/> installed; it is the toolset
+used to build the docs.  It is not included in this tree, but maintained
+separately and available from PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx>.
 
 
 Using make
 ----------
 
-Luckily, a Makefile has been prepared so that on Unix, provided you have
-installed Python and Subversion, you can just run ::
+A Makefile has been prepared so that on Unix, provided you have installed
+Sphinx, you can just run ::
 
    make html
 
-to check out the necessary toolset in the `tools/` subdirectory and build the
-HTML output files.  To view the generated HTML, point your favorite browser at
-the top-level index `build/html/index.html` after running "make".
+to build the HTML output files.  To view the generated HTML, point your favorite
+browser at the top-level index `build/html/index.html` after running "make".
+
+On Windows, we try to emulate the Makefile as closely as possible with a
+``make.bat`` file.
 
 To use a Python interpreter that's not called ``python``, use the standard
 way to set Makefile variables, using e.g. ::
@@ -74,43 +72,21 @@
    `tools/sphinxext/pyspecific.py` -- pydoc needs these to show topic and
    keyword help.
 
-A "make update" updates the Subversion checkouts in `tools/`.
+ * "suspicious", which checks the parsed markup for text that looks like
+   malformed and thus unconverted reST.
 
 
 Without make
 ------------
 
-You'll need to install the Sphinx package, either by checking it out via ::
+Install the Sphinx package and its dependencies from PyPI.
 
-   svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/external/Sphinx-1.0.7/sphinx tools/sphinx
+Then, from the ``Docs`` directory, run ::
 
-or by installing it from PyPI.
+   sphinx-build -b<builder> . build/<builder>
 
-Then, you need to install Docutils, either by checking it out via ::
-
-   svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/external/docutils-0.6/docutils tools/docutils
-
-or by installing it from http://docutils.sf.net/.
-
-You also need Jinja2, either by checking it out via ::
-
-   svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/external/Jinja-2.3.1/jinja2 tools/jinja2
-
-or by installing it from PyPI.
-
-You can optionally also install Pygments, either as a checkout via ::
-
-   svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/external/Pygments-1.3.1/pygments tools/pygments
-
-or from PyPI at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygments.
-
-
-Then, make an output directory, e.g. under `build/`, and run ::
-
-   python tools/sphinx-build.py -b<builder> . build/<outputdirectory>
-
-where `<builder>` is one of html, text, latex, or htmlhelp (for explanations see
-the make targets above).
+where ``<builder>`` is one of html, text, latex, or htmlhelp (for explanations
+see the make targets above).
 
 
 Contributing