* stepmake/aclocal.m4: version check patch (thanks MWD)

[lilypond.git] / INSTALL.txt

diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index 9f8ab35a43a3544acd0e11eb77ea2d12baf6c5e8..2a431f3a5c0a8c6d9eb00db2c5f15db14fcb0160 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ Prerequisites
    * Bison (version 1.25 or newer).  Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org/bison/
      (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/bison/).
 
-   * 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.
+   * Texinfo. 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
@@ -76,13 +76,11 @@ 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, 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
+   * 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
      files.
 
-     If you do not want to use PostScript output, edit `mf/GNUmakefile'.
-
 
 Running
 =======
@@ -120,9 +118,8 @@ Website
    The website is the most convenient form to use for reading the
 documentation on-line documentation. It is made by entering
 
-       make htmldoc
-   This does require a  functioning  LilyPond. The binary doesn't have
-to be installed.
+       make website
+   This does require a fully functioning
 
    If you want to auto-generate Lily's website, you'll need some
 additional conversion tools.
@@ -153,18 +150,18 @@ additional conversion tools.
 
      You can then install the new pnmtopng into `/usr/local/bin/'
 
-   * 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.
+     (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++ (http://www.zib.de/Visual/software/doc++/index.html)     A
-     documentation system for C++ sources, which is used for the
-     LilyPond sources.
+   * Doc++ (optional) to read the source code.
+
 
 Configuring and compiling
 =========================