About this manual

Version history

VersionDateStatusWhoComment
D1.02002-09-16DraftJohan Persson Initial version

How was this manual produced?

The bulk of the text was written directly in Emacs on a GNU/Linux system in a mixture of PHP and HTML. A number of PHP functions were used to automate the handling of formatting example code and figures.

To generate the images automatically in the img directory a custom awk-script is used to extract all the used image script from the manual. The sript then uses the text based HTML browser 'links' to render the PHP image script non-interactively and then store them in the 'img' directory.

To finally generate all pure HTML pages from the PHP sources again 'links' was used together with a custom Makefile. The result of this process is what you are reading at the moment.