| Guido van Rossum | 7f777ed | 1990-08-09 14:25:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | This directory contains the source to the Python documentation. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Unfortunately it's not not very readable, complete or up-to-date yet -- |
| 4 | in other words, I'm still working on it! |
| 5 | |
| 6 | There are four documents and a macro file: |
| 7 | |
| 8 | macros.ms macros .so'ed by the documents |
| 9 | |
| Guido van Rossum | df79a1e | 1990-10-07 12:35:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | tut.ms informal tutorial |
| 11 | mod.ms description of standard modules |
| 12 | ref.ms Python language reference manual (embryonic) |
| 13 | paper.ms conference paper about Python (embryonic) |
| Guido van Rossum | 7f777ed | 1990-08-09 14:25:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | |
| Guido van Rossum | df79a1e | 1990-10-07 12:35:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | XXX There should also be a man page (extracted from sec. 2 of the tutorial) |
| Guido van Rossum | 7f777ed | 1990-08-09 14:25:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | |
| 17 | To typeset one of the documents on the default Postscript printer, chdir |
| 18 | to this directory (otherwise the macros aren't found!) and issue the |
| 19 | command |
| 20 | |
| 21 | pstroff -ms file.ms |
| 22 | |
| 23 | When typesetting all documents, issue a separate command for each. |
| 24 | |
| Guido van Rossum | df79a1e | 1990-10-07 12:35:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | You can also use the Makefile, at your own risk. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | --Guido (last modified 7 Oct 90) |