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-$Id: README 635 2010-11-14 19:15:12Z karl $
+$Id: README 742 2016-04-25 17:30:55Z karl $
-1. List of pdfTeX documentation files
-=====================================
+(This README file public domain.)
-pdftex-a.pdf (A4 format)
-pdftex-l.pdf (letter format)
-pdftex-s.pdf (screen format)
-pdftex-b.pdf (A5 booklet made from pdftex-a.pdf)
-pdftex-b-e.pdf (A5 booklet, even pages)
-pdftex-b-o.pdf (A5 booklet, odd pages)
-pdftex-syntax.txt
+Documentation files for pdfTeX:
+pdftex-a.pdf A4 paper size
+pdftex-l.pdf letter paper size
+pdftex-s.pdf screen format
+pdftex-b.pdf A5 booklet made from pdftex-a.pdf
+pdftex-b-e.pdf A5 booklet, even pages
+pdftex-b-o.pdf A5 booklet, odd pages
-2. Installation
-===============
+pdftex-t.tex source for manual (ConTeXt)
+pdftex-w.tex source for title page (plain)
+pdftex-i.tex settings for screen output (ConTeXt)
-Untar or unzip the distribution file. Change to directory "manual".
-All files are built from pdftex-t.tex via the Makefile or the file
-makefiles.cmd.
+pdftex-help.txt output of --help
+pdftex-syntax.tex primitives and syntax rules, autogenerated from manual
+pdftex-syntax.txt autogenerated from .tex
-2.1 Unix Style
---------------
+syntaxform.pl script for making pdftex-syntax.tex
+syntaxform.awk script for making pdftex-syntax.txt
-See the Makefile. To re-generate the manual PDFs from their sources,
-type:
+The Makefile has the rules for building everything.
+For Windows, see makefiles.cmd, though it has not been updated in years.
-make allclean; make
-
-To get also the A5 booklet PDFs, type:
-
-make booklet
-
-Finally you might type:
-
-make clean
-
-to remove all unneeded stuff that has accumulated during processing.
-Only the sources, the PDFs, and file pdftex-syntax.txt will be kept.
-
-2.2 Windows Style
------------------
-
-Execute file makefiles.cmd.
-
-
-3. How it's done
-================
-
-3.1 Generating pdftex-syntax.txt from pdftex-t.tex
---------------------------------------------------
-pdftex-t.tex --> (awk -f syntaxform.awk) --> pdftex-syntax.txt
-
-
-3.2 Generating title page of manual
------------------------------------
-pdftex-w.tex --> (pdfetex) --> pdftex-w.pdf
- --> (expand, fmt, grep) --> pdftex-t.txt
+If working on the manual, make clean removes all the temporary files.
+make maintainer-clean removes everything that can be generated.