Add the "What's New" document to the index of HTML documents.

freddrake · freddrake · commit 4e526feb6a6f · 2002-03-26T20:29:11.000Z
diff --git a/Doc/Makefile b/Doc/Makefile
@@ -323,7 +323,8 @@ html/acks.html: ACKS $(TOOLSDIR)/support.py $(TOOLSDIR)/mkackshtml
 BOILERPLATE=texinputs/boilerplate.tex
 html/index.html: $(INDEXFILES)
 html/index.html: html/index.html.in $(BOILERPLATE) tools/rewrite.py
-	$(PYTHON) tools/rewrite.py $(BOILERPLATE) RELEASE=$(RELEASE) \
+	$(PYTHON) tools/rewrite.py $(BOILERPLATE) \
+		RELEASE=$(RELEASE) WHATSNEW=$(WHATSNEW) \
 		<$< >$@
 
 html/modindex.html: $(TOOLSDIR)/support.py $(TOOLSDIR)/mkmodindex
diff --git a/Doc/html/index.html.in b/Doc/html/index.html.in
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
     <style type="text/css">
       a.title { font-weight: bold; font-size: 110%; }
       ul { margin-left: 1em; padding: 0pt; border: 0pt; }
+      ul li { margin-top: 0.2em; }
+      td.left-column { padding-right: 1em; }
+      td.right-column { padding-left: 1em; }
     </style>
   </head>
   <body>
@@ -45,11 +48,25 @@
 
     <table align="center">
       <tbody>
-      <tr><td>
+        <tr>
+          <td class="left-column">
 	  <ul>
 	    <li> <a href="tut/tut.html" class="title">Tutorial</a>
 	      <br>(start here)
-
+	  </ul>
+	  </td>
+	  <td class="right-column">
+	  <ul>
+            <li> <a href="whatsnew/@WHATSNEW@.html" class="title"
+                >What's New in Python</a>
+              <br>(changes since the last major release)
+	  </ul>
+	  </td>
+        </tr>
+        <tr>
+          <td valign="baseline" class="left-column">
+          &nbsp;
+	  <ul>
 	    <li> <a href="modindex.html" class="title">Global Module Index</a>
 	      <br>(for quick access to all documentation)
 
@@ -63,9 +80,14 @@
 	    <li> <a href="inst/inst.html" class="title">Installing
 		Python Modules</a>
 	      <br>(for administrators)
+
+	    <li> <a href="dist/dist.html" class="title">Distributing
+		Python Modules</a>
+	      <br>(for developers and packagers)
 	  </ul>
 	  </td>
-	  <td>
+	  <td valign="baseline" class="right-column">
+          &nbsp;
 	  <ul>
 	    <li> <a href="ref/ref.html" class="title">Language Reference</a>
 	      <br>(for language lawyers)
@@ -79,23 +101,19 @@
 
 	    <li> <a href="doc/doc.html" class="title">Documenting Python</a>
 	      <br>(information for documentation authors)
-
-	    <li> <a href="dist/dist.html" class="title">Distributing
-		Python Modules</a>
-	      <br>(for developers and packagers)
 	  </ul>
 	  </td>
-	</tr>
+        </tr>
         <tr>
-          <td>
+          <td valign="baseline" class="left-column">
           &nbsp;
           <ul>
             <li> <a href="http://www.python.org/doc/" class="title"
                 >Documentation Central</a>
               <br>(for everyone)
           </ul>
           </td>
-          <td>
+          <td valign="baseline" class="right-column">
           &nbsp;
           <ul>
             <li> <a href="http://www.python.org/doc/howto/" class="title"
