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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Inform Beginner's Guide
 Introduction
 ------------
 
-This repository contains the sources for the
+This repository contains the sources for an updated version of the
 [Inform Beginner's Guide](http://www.firthworks.com/roger/IBG.html),
 henceforth known as the IBG.  This version is in a new source format that's
 more version-control and contributor-friendly:
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ the 4th edition will be prepared.  The rationale for a 4th edition is:
 * Some old web links have gone away, to be replaced by new and better
   ones.
 
+If you want a preview of how the online HTML version of the new guide
+looks, you can find it [here](http://inform-beginners-guide.readthedocs.org).
+
 Building from source
 --------------------
 
@@ -35,56 +38,34 @@ As well as these document sources, you will need:
 * Sphinx.  You can find the complete installation instructions
   [here](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/install.html).
 
-* Sphinx makes use of [Blockdiag](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/blockdiag)
-  for some of the diagrams; you'll need that too.
+* [Blockdiag](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/blockdiag) is used for some of
+  the diagrams.
+
+* To create the HTML version, you'll need a recent (>=0.7.8) version of the
+  [Alabaster](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/alabaster) theme.
 
 If you have `pip`, this command will be all you need:
 
-    pip install sphinx blockdiag
+    pip install -U sphinx blockdiag alabaster
 
 After you have everything installed, you can build the HTML version of the
 guide from a command prompt, like this:
 
 	make html
 
-For building the PDF version, you need a reasonably recent installation of
-TeX Live.  Release 2014 will do.  You will also need the Emerald font
-package from https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/emerald/.  This cannot
-be installed with `tlmgr`, nor does it seem to be packaged by the usual
-Linux or BSD distributions.  Scripts for installing and uninstalling
-Emerald are provided in the `tools` directory.  When you're ready, type
+For building the PDF version, you need a reasonably recent installation 
+of TeX Live.  Release 2014 will do.  You will also need the iftex 
+package, which may or may not be automatically installed.  For Debian 
+and Debian-derived systems, the "texlive-generic-extra" package will 
+take care of this.
+
+You will also need the Emerald font package from 
+https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/emerald/.  This cannot be 
+installed with `tlmgr`, nor does it seem to be packaged by the usual 
+Linux or BSD distributions.  Scripts for installing and uninstalling 
+Emerald are provided in the `tools` directory.  When you're ready, type 
 this:
 
 	make latexpdf
 
 Other formats are available; just type `make` for more details.
-
-Conversion strategy
--------------------
-
-The first three editions of the IBG were created with
-[Adobe FrameMaker](http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker.html).  And the
-FrameMaker source files have kindly been supplied by Roger Firth to make
-this update, which opened up the possibility of creating an auto-converter.
-
-But unfortunately, what with FrameMaker being proprietary, there isn't much
-out there apart from FrameMaker itself that can read them.  I was hoping
-that conversion using [Mif2Go](http://mif2go.com) might be a possibility,
-but it turns out that that's just a plugin for FrameMaker.  I guess I could
-get a trial FrameMaker license, try to set up the plugin and get it to
-autoconvert to some usable format, but it all looks far too messy.  But on
-the plus side, the supplied GIF images are totally usable.
-
-So, it's back to my original plan: use the PDF file.  Here's the first
-(major) part of the work:
-
-* Dump the text out of the PDF file
-* Convert all the 3rd edition text to Sphinx format
-* Get the online version to look good
-
-After that comes the 4th edition changes, hopefully in collaboration with
-others.  Also, in parallel with that, other niceties:
-
-* Add a glossary
-* Add an index
-* Prepare a new PDF version, via the Sphinx LaTeX converter