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+The "original" document is the Docbook file "manual.xml" -- all other
+files here are derived from it.
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+To read the HTML docs, open manual.html in your browser.
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+To generate other formats of the documentation use xmlto or your favorite 
+xslt docbook converter to convert the xml file.