release: 1.3.28

[lilypond.git] / INSTALL.txt

diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index 2a431f3a5c0a8c6d9eb00db2c5f15db14fcb0160..0d2bafa7fccdf136722ab93b0bf5f7e4ec772b11 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Abstract
 you should do.  If you are going to compile and install LilyPond often,
 e.g. when doing development, you might want to check out the
 `buildscripts/set-lily.sh' script.  It sets some environment variables
-and symlinks, which comes in handly when you have to compile LilyPond
+and symlinks, which comes in handy when you have to compile LilyPond
 more often.
 
 Obtaining
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ Prerequisites
    * Bison (version 1.25 or newer).  Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org/bison/
      (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/bison/).
 
-   * Texinfo. Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/texinfo/
-     (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/texinfo/).  Most documentation is in
-     texinfo.
+   * Texinfo (version 4.0 or newer).  Check out
+     ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/texinfo/ (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/texinfo/).
+     Most documentation is in texinfo.
 
    * The geometry package for LaTeX is needed to use ly2dvi.  Available
      at
@@ -76,11 +76,13 @@ Prerequisites
      (ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry)
      or at mirror site ftp://ftp.dante.de (ftp://ftp.dante.de)
 
-   * MetaPost, if you want to use direct PostScript output. Please note
-     that  tetex-0.4pl8 (included with Redhat 5.x) does not include
-     `mfplain.mp', which is needed  for producing the scaleable font
+   * MetaPost, needed for generating PostScript fonts. Please note that
+     tetex-0.4pl8 (included with Redhat 5.x) does not include
+     `mfplain.mp', which is needed for producing the scalable font
      files.
 
+     If you do not want to use PostScript output, edit `mf/GNUmakefile'.
+
 
 Running
 =======
@@ -118,8 +120,9 @@ Website
    The website is the most convenient form to use for reading the
 documentation on-line documentation. It is made by entering
 
-       make website
-   This does require a fully functioning
+       make htmldoc
+   This does require a  functioning  LilyPond. The binary doesn't have
+to be installed.
 
    If you want to auto-generate Lily's website, you'll need some
 additional conversion tools.
@@ -150,18 +153,18 @@ additional conversion tools.
 
      You can then install the new pnmtopng into `/usr/local/bin/'
 
-   * Bib2html http://pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu/~hull/bib2html.
-     (http://pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu/~hull/bib2html.)      Which, in
-     turn depends on man2html for proper installation.  man2html can be
-     had from
+   * Bib2html (http://pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu/~hull/bib2html).
+     Which, in turn depends on man2html for proper installation.
+     man2html can be had from
      http://askdonald.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de/hppd/hpux/Networking/WWW/Man2html-1.05
      (http://askdonald.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de/hppd/hpux/Networking/WWW/Man2html-1.05).
 
      The website will build without this utility, but you will not see
      our hypertextified bibliography.
 
-   * Doc++ (optional) to read the source code.
-
+   * DOC++ (http://www.zib.de/Visual/software/doc++/index.html)     A
+     documentation system for C++ sources, which is used for the
+     LilyPond sources.
 
 Configuring and compiling
 =========================