# Preface

This is a comprehensive manual aimed towards people wishing to use BML for their website needs. Some of the topics covered include setting up BML for a website, writing a custom BML scheme, and customization & optimization of a BML installation.

## Target Audience

This book was written for anyone interested in installing and using BML for their own purposes, and for people who are just generally interested in how BML works.

Readers of this book should be familiar with administering a web site, and have at least a brief knowledge of HTML.

## Organization

The Manual is organized into certain chapters:

  A tutorial covering the basics of BML, and explaining how to write a BML document.

  A reference to BML block flags.

  A reference to the core BML blocks.

  An application programming interface reference.

## Versions

An online version of this book can be found at: . To compile these pages for your own, refer to: `/doc/raw/notes.txt` in CVS.