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+%
+% howto.cls for the Python documentation
+%
+
+\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1995/12/01]
+\ProvidesClass{howto}
+             [1998/02/25 Document class (Python HOWTO)]
+
+\RequirePackage{pypaper}
+
+% Change the options here to get a different set of basic options,  This
+% is where to add things like "a4paper" or "10pt".
+%
+\LoadClass[twoside]{article}
+
+\setcounter{secnumdepth}{1}
+
+% Optional packages:
+%
+% If processing of these documents fails at your TeX installation,
+% these may be commented out (independently) to make things work.
+% These are both supplied with the current version of the teTeX
+% distribution.
+%
+% The "fancyhdr" package makes nicer page footers reasonable to
+% implement, and is used to put the chapter and section information in 
+% the footers.
+%
+\RequirePackage{fancyhdr}\typeout{Using fancier footers than usual.}
+
+
+% Required package:
+%
+% This gives us all the Python-specific markup that we really want.
+% This should come last.  Do not change this.
+%
+\RequirePackage{python}
+
+% support for module synopsis sections:
+\newcommand{\py@ModSynopsisFilename}{\jobname.syn}
+
+
+% need to do one of these....
+\newcommand{\py@doHorizontalRule}{\rule{\textwidth}{1pt}}
+
+
+% Change the title page to look a bit better, and fit in with the
+% fncychap ``Bjarne'' style a bit better.
+%
+\renewcommand{\maketitle}{
+  \py@doHorizontalRule
+  \@ifundefined{pdfinfo}{}{{
+    % This \def is required to deal with multi-line authors; it
+    % changes \\ to ', ' (comma-space), making it pass muster for
+    % generating document info in the PDF file.
+    \def\\{, }
+    \pdfinfo{
+      /Author (\@author)
+      /Title (\@title)
+    }
+  }}
+  \begin{flushright}
+    {\rm\Huge\py@HeaderFamily \@title} \par
+    {\em\large\py@HeaderFamily \py@release} \par
+    \vspace{25pt}
+    {\Large\py@HeaderFamily \@author} \par
+    \vspace{25pt}
+    \@date \par
+    \py@authoraddress \par
+  \end{flushright}
+  \@thanks
+  \setcounter{footnote}{0}
+  \let\thanks\relax\let\maketitle\relax
+  \gdef\@thanks{}\gdef\@author{}\gdef\@title{}
+}
+
+
+\let\py@OldTableofcontents=\tableofcontents
+\renewcommand{\tableofcontents}{
+  \begingroup
+    \parskip = 0mm
+    \py@OldTableofcontents
+  \endgroup
+  \py@doHorizontalRule
+  \vspace{12pt}
+  \py@doing@page@targetstrue
+}  
+
+% Fix the theindex environment to add an entry to the Table of
+% Contents; this is much nicer than just having to jump to the end of
+% the book and flip around, especially with multiple indexes.
+%
+\let\py@OldTheindex=\theindex
+\renewcommand{\theindex}{
+  \clearpage
+  \py@OldTheindex
+  \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\indexname}
+}
+
+\@ifundefined{fancyhf}{
+  \pagestyle{plain}}{
+  \pagestyle{normal}}		% start this way; change for
+\pagenumbering{arabic}		% ToC & chapters
+\setcounter{secnumdepth}{2}
+
+\thispagestyle{empty}