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 If you want to make changes to the .css generated from these .less files then you
-need to install recess (https://github.com/twitter/recess) to compile the .less files,
-then run these commands in the bootstrapbase/less/ folder:
+need to use a LESS Compiler. Details on specific compilers and how to install them
+can be found at http://docs.moodle.org/dev/LESS
+
+At present, recess is the official tool for developers to compile LESS in to CSS, as
+other tools give different results in the generated CSS.
+
+Once recess has been installed you can compile and compress the LESS in to CSS using
+the following commands from the "theme/bootstrapbase/less" directory:
+
+For the main Moodle styles:
 
 recess --compile --compress moodle.less > ../style/moodle.css
 
-You can add --watch to make sure it updates every time you make a change.
-
 And for the subset of styles of interest to the TinyMCE editor:
 
 recess --compile --compress editor.less >  ../style/editor.css
 
-Non-command line options for .less compilation are available, see their github for more info.
+You can add --watch to make sure it updates every time you make a change.
 
 If the compilation is failing and you're not getting any useful error message, try using lessc instead i.e.:
 
 lessc moodle.less
 
 This is the same tool that's getting called by recess, but the errors seems better if you go direct.
+
+Additional information about the Moodle bootstrap base theme can be found at
+http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Bootstrap
+