[Doc-SIG] HTML versions of documentation.

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Mark Hammond :
 > It would be great if I could get HTML versions of the documentation
 > from the CVS tex versions..
 [...]
 > * If all else fails, would someone be able to respond to my calls
 > for help should I attempt to perform this automatically on starship
 > (sort of a-la DA's tarballing of CVS)?  Does anyone know why
 > starship _wouldnt_ be able to build the .html?

  I actually hope to host this myself on python.org as part of the
Doc-SIG area, but haven't gotten around to it.  Hopefully in the next
couple of weeks.
  The "long HTML" version I promised in my work plan hasn't been
dropped on the distribution site, most immediately because I haven't
written the README to go with it.  ;(  That shouldn't take quite as
long.

Peter Funk writes:
 > Building the HTML simply requires to type 'make html' on my SuSE Linux
 > box.  ... After installing the "right" version of l2h!  Selecting the
 > version of 'latex2html' was the critical part.  You definitely need 
 > 	l2h98_2beta6
 > which is still available on the net.

  This is still the case.  It all requires Unix, but some of the
scripts are moving from shell scripts to Python, which should make it
easier to use under Windows (eventually).  The SGML/XML processes
*will* be usable under Windows pretty much from the start (I'll take
that as a requirement!).

 > Fred was very responsive on my attempts to get this going.
 > But beware, Fred just started to fold the 1.5.2p2 branch back
 > into the main tree.  May be you should wait one or two more days.

  I think the merge is pretty much done, but I've not proofread the
result yet.  This will occur someday.  ;)  I'm currently pretty
swamped with various happenings here.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.	  <fdrake at acm.org>
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