This section describes the various scripts that are used to
implement various stages of document processing or to orchestrate
entire build sequences. Most of these tools are only useful
in the context of building the standard documentation, but some
are more general.
mkhowto
This is the primary script used to format third-party
documents. It contains all the logic needed to ``get it
right.'' The proper way to use this script is to make a
symbolic link to it or run it in place; the actual script file
must be stored as part of the documentation source tree,
though it may be used to format documents outside the
tree. Use mkhowto--help
for a list of
command line options.
mkhowto can be used for both howto and
manual class documents. (For the later, be sure to get
the latest version from the Python CVS repository rather than
the version distributed in the latex-1.5.2.tgz source
archive.)