diff --git a/gramps/README b/gramps/README
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--- a/gramps/README
+++ b/gramps/README
@@ -11,6 +11,46 @@ greater. Many distributions already provide this, but if your
 installation does not have it, you can get it from
 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6473
 
+Documentation
+---------------------------------
+Gramps documentation is supplied in the form of SGML files, which will be
+installed in the GNOME help path(*).  Recent versions of Nautilus and Galeon
+can generate HTML documents on-the-fly from these.  To generate distinct
+HTML documentation follow these steps:
+
+1) Ensure the following packages are installed:
+db2html >= 0.6.9  (jw >= 1.1)  to convert the SGML -> HTML
+gnome-doc-tools-2-1            for the GNOME documentation style sheets
+The /etc/sgml/catalog file should contain an entry pointing to PNG support.
+If configured properly, your db2html should automatically look up and use
+the /etc/sgml/catalog file.  If it doesn't you can try editing the DB2HTML
+line in Makefile.comm to explicitly use that file,
+DB2HTML = db2html -c /etc/sgml/catalog
+
+2) Invoke configure with the --enable-html option: 
+   ./configure --enable-html
+
+3) In addition to the normal 'make' and 'make install', you need to also
+execute 'make html && make install-html'.
+
+If all goes well and you do the happy dance, the HTML files should be
+built and installed successfully.  Due to a wide variation in the
+implementation of db2html (and docbook-utils) across various Linux
+distributions, though, this is not guaranteed to work.  Some configure-time
+checks are in place, and it _should_ work, but it is very ad-hoc at the
+moment.  You have been warned. :-)
+
+Of course, current HTML documentation can also be found on the gramps website,
+http://gramps.sourceforge.net/help.html
+
+(*) More precisely, they are installed in ${prefix}/share/gnome/help, where
+${prefix} is given by the --prefix= option to configure.  If this is
+different from where your standard GNOME installation looks for help files
+and documentation, then set your GNOMEDIR environment variable to this path
+before starting gramps. For example,
+in tcsh: setenv GNOMEDIR /usr/local/share/gnome/help
+in bash: GNOMEDIR=/usr/local/share/gnome/help ; export GNOMEDIR
+
 Building on non-Linux systems: i18n support and GNU make
 --------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -29,6 +69,3 @@ gives to GNU make) instead.
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 Donald Allingham
 dallingham@users.sourceforge.net
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