$Id: README 742 2016-04-25 17:30:55Z karl $

(This README file public domain.)

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

pdftex-t.tex       source for manual          (ConTeXt)
pdftex-w.tex       source for title page      (plain)
pdftex-i.tex       settings for screen output (ConTeXt)

pdftex-help.txt    output of --help
pdftex-syntax.tex  primitives and syntax rules, autogenerated from manual
pdftex-syntax.txt  autogenerated from .tex

syntaxform.pl      script for making pdftex-syntax.tex
syntaxform.awk     script for making pdftex-syntax.txt

The Makefile has the rules for building everything.
For Windows, see makefiles.cmd, though it has not been updated in years.

If working on the manual, make clean removes all the temporary files.
make maintainer-clean removes everything that can be generated.
