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+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -3,28 +3,68 @@ Installation instructions
 
 Download a tarball from http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases[] or clone the tig
 repository http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git[]. Documentation files are
-available either in the tarballs or in the above repository in the branch named
-'release'.
+available in the tarballs and in the 'release' branch of the tig repository.
 
-To install tig simply run:
+The quick and simple way to install tig with documentation is to run:
 
+	$ make
+	$ make install install-doc
+
+From tig's git repository it is also possible to install documentation directly
+from the release branch to avoid installing the documentation tool chain:
+
+	$ make install-release-doc
+
+Optionally, you can use the `configure` script to detect dependencies:
+
+	$ ./configure
+	$ make
 	$ make install
 
-To install documentation run:
+If your iconv library is not in the default library and include path, you'll
+probably want to pass the "--with-libiconv" option to the "configure" script to
+tell it where to look. Note, if you are building from the tig repository, you
+need to first make the configure script:
+
+	$ make configure
 
-	$ make install-docs
+Build settings are read from the file "config.make". To manually configure tig
+to use the ncurses library with wide character support, add the line:
+
+	LDLIBS = -lncursesw
+
+Release notes documenting notable changes are available in the NEWS file. When
+upgrading, you are advised to also read them after you have completed the
+installation.
 
 The following tools and packages are needed:
 
-`-------------------------------`----------------------------------------------
-Tool				Description
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-git-core			Tig is just a frontend for git.
-ncurses				Be sure to also have development files \
-				installed. Usually they are available in a
-				separate package ending with `-dev`.
-asciidoc (>= 7.0), xmlto	For building documentation. (Optional)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-NOTE: You need to install the tig(1) man page in order for the internal help to
-be available.
+[cols="2<,8<",options="header"]
+|=============================================================================
+|Tool				|Description
+|git-core			|Tig is just a frontend for git.
+|ncurses or ncursesw		|Be sure to have the development files
+				 installed. Usually they are available in a
+				 separate package ending with `-dev`.
+				 Note also that ncurses with wide character
+				 support (ncursesw) is required to properly
+				 handle UTF-8 encoded strings.
+|iconv				|If iconv is not provided by the c library
+				 you need to change the Makefile to link it
+				 into the binary.
+|=============================================================================
+
+The following optional tools and packages are needed for creating the
+configure script and building documentation:
+
+[cols="2<,8<",options="header"]
+|=============================================================================
+|Tool				|Description
+|autoconf			|Contains autoreconf for generating configure
+				 from configure.ac.
+|asciidoc (>= 8.4)		|Generates HTML and (DocBook) XML from text.
+|xmlto				|Generates manpages and chunked HTML from XML.
+|DocBook XSL (>= 1.72.0)	|Used by xmlto for building manpages.
+|DocBook (DSSL/Jade) tools	|Generates PDF from XML.
+				Also known as docbook-utils.
+|=============================================================================