diff --git a/Doc/perl/l2hinit.perl b/Doc/perl/l2hinit.perl
index 0bc9aa59d23..b7ade490845 100644
--- a/Doc/perl/l2hinit.perl
+++ b/Doc/perl/l2hinit.perl
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ $HAVE_MODULE_INDEX = 0;
$HAVE_GENERAL_INDEX = 0;
$HAVE_TABLE_OF_CONTENTS = 0;
+$AESOP_META_TYPE = 'information';
+
# A little painful, but lets us clean up the top level directory a little,
# and not be tied to the current directory (as far as I can tell). Testing
@@ -639,6 +641,8 @@ sub make_head_and_body {
, "\n\n", $title, "\n"
, &meta_information($title)
, $MY_PARTIAL_HEADER
+ , ($AESOP_META_TYPE eq '' ? ''
+ : "\n")
, "\n\n");
}
diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkackshtml b/Doc/tools/mkackshtml
index 917b3035f2e..79fe3f92f51 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkackshtml
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkackshtml
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ def main():
colnums = []
for i in range(options.columns):
colnums.append(percol*i)
+ options.aesop_type = "information"
fp = options.get_output_file()
fp.write(string.rstrip(options.get_header()) + "\n")
fp.write(THANKS + "\n")
diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkmodindex b/Doc/tools/mkmodindex
index 23a200e7eb3..58ba05e3dfe 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkmodindex
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkmodindex
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ import sys
class IndexOptions(support.Options):
+ aesop_type = "links"
+
def __init__(self):
support.Options.__init__(self)
self.add_args("l", ["letters"])
diff --git a/Doc/tools/support.py b/Doc/tools/support.py
index 187ac21a759..bc17c6eccc6 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/support.py
+++ b/Doc/tools/support.py
@@ -28,6 +28,24 @@ class Options:
uplink = "index.html"
uptitle = "Python Documentation Index"
+ # The "Aesop Meta Tag" is poorly described, and may only be used
+ # by the Aesop search engine (www.aesop.com), but doesn't hurt.
+ #
+ # There are a number of values this may take to roughly categorize
+ # a page. A page should be marked according to its primary
+ # category. Known values are:
+ # 'personal' -- personal-info
+ # 'information' -- information
+ # 'interactive' -- interactive media
+ # 'multimedia' -- multimedia presenetation (non-sales)
+ # 'sales' -- sales material
+ # 'links' -- links to other information pages
+ #
+ # Setting the aesop_type value to one of these strings will cause
+ # get_header() to add the appropriate tag to the .
+ #
+ aesop_type = None
+
def __init__(self):
self.args = []
self.variables = {"address": "",
@@ -96,6 +114,12 @@ def get_header(self):
link = '' % self.uplink
repl = " %s\n" % link
s = s.replace("", repl, 1)
+ if self.aesop_type:
+ meta = '\n '
+ # Insert this in the middle of the head that's been
+ # generated so far, keeping and elements in
+ # neat groups:
+ s = s.replace("