Tweak build and preface pages.

diff --git a/xmldoc/chapters/build.xml b/xmldoc/chapters/build.xml
index 236e4cf4a57d89150c814cbabb856792c04d02c0..9f66d143924291c1d77945af8d60b1d39d0239e8 100644 (file)
--- a/xmldoc/chapters/build.xml
+++ b/xmldoc/chapters/build.xml
@@ -1,19 +1,29 @@
-   <chapter id="Getting_and_Building">
-      <title>Getting it  and Building it</title>
-      <para> GPSBabel is distributed in source format that will work on
-about any operating system and as ready-to-run binaries for some
-operating systems, notably Windows.  See the "OS-Specific notes" at
-<ulink url="http://www.gpsbabel.org ">gpsbabel.org</ulink> for
-instructions on those binary kits.
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<chapter id="Getting_and_Building">
+  <title>Getting it and Building it</title>
+  <para> 
+GPSBabel is distributed "ready to run" on most common 
+operating systems via the 
+<ulink url="http://www.gpsbabel.org/download.html">download page</ulink>.
 </para>
-      <para> For operating systems where no binary is provided, you will
-have to build it.  The code should be compilable on any system with
+  <para> As GPSBabel runs on a wide variety of operating systems,
+be sure to visit the 
+<ulink url="http://www.gpsbabel.org/osnotes.html">OS-Specific notes</ulink> for
+additional information.
+</para>
+  <para> 
+ For operating systems where no binary is provided or if 
+you want the latest development version, you will have to build it from
+source.  The code should be compilable on any system with
 ISO C89 compilers.  It's been tested on UnixWare, OpenServer, OS/X,
 Linux, Solaris, and a variety of processors and compilers.
 </para>
-      <para> Libexpat is required for source builds.  If you get errors
-about expat.h being missing, you must either edit the Makefile to tell
-the compiler where it is or install it in a sensible place.  Expat can
-be downloaded from <ulink url="http://expat.sourceforge.net">http://expat.sourceforge.net</ulink> and is part of Apache so it's very portable.
+  <para>
+  In most cases, the code is as simple to build as running:
+ <screen format="linespecific">./configure &amp;&amp; make</screen>
+</para>
+  <para><ulink url="http://expat.sourceforge.net">Expat</ulink> 
+is strongly recommended for source builds as it is
+required for reading all the XML formats such as GPX.
 </para>
-   </chapter>
+</chapter>

diff --git a/xmldoc/chapters/preface.xml b/xmldoc/chapters/preface.xml
index 8c07bd93359c96f5ebc76415c6e6f8b2afd087d7..c15306d7f71bc811f05778a0d740fe2cd1aa97a4 100644 (file)
--- a/xmldoc/chapters/preface.xml
+++ b/xmldoc/chapters/preface.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
          <title>The Problem</title>
          <para> There are simply too many gratuitously different file formats
 to hold waypoint, track, and route information in various programs
-used by computers.  GPX (http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp) defines a
+used by computers and GPS receivers.  
+<ulink url="http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp">GPX</ulink>  defines a
 standard in XML to contain all the data, but there are too many
 programs that don't understand it yet and too much data that are in an
 alternate formats.