About This Manual

The HTML version of the SWIG Users Manual is a direct translation of the printed version which is produced using Framemaker 5. The conversion process was roughly as follows :

• Raw HTML was produced using Framemaker 5 and Quadralay WebWorks Lite.
• Tables and figures were converted into GIF images.
• All of this output was fed into a magic Python script that cleaned up the HTML source and merged the GIF figures into the text.
• A table of contents and alphabetized topic index were produced from HTML heading tags by the same script.

• Some sections of preformatted text may have weird formatting problems.
• Framemaker tables were converted into GIF images instead of HTML tables--this is a little weird, but the easiest approach for now.
• There may be a few minor formatting problems throughout due to minor "glitches" that slipped through the conversion process (although I've tried to correct as many as these as possible).
• The printed version of the SWIG manual is more than 300 pages long--resulting in about 670 Kbytes of HTML. The HTML version is broken up into chapters. Each chapter is fairly well-contained, but some may contain as many as 50 pages of printed text.