Re: Manualitis

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I'm adding more formats to
> <URL:http://quimby.gnus.org/gnus/manual.html>.  Split HTML,
> monolithic HTML, PS, pdf..  Anything else?  Macromedia Flash?  :-)
> 
> Actually, I'm having some difficulties with ps2pdf.  It bugs out with

Don't use ps2pdf.  It's evil.  Broken.  In terrible shape.  It might
work someday (sounds like it might be OK by 6.0) but now, it's bad. 

Now, pdftex, that's good.  Here's a patch to the makefile to make
them.  I also have PDFs of all of them (including really happy
hyperlinks) if anyone wants them.

The only problem I found (in the brief look I had) is the logo in the
refcard.  It would take me a while to get it to work... I played with
it, and it wasn't quite happy with my regular methods.

*** Makefile.in.orig	Wed Dec  1 11:30:59 1999
--- Makefile.in	Sat Dec  4 22:18:28 1999
***************
*** 6,16 ****
--- 6,18 ----
  
  VPATH=$(srcdir)
  TEXI2DVI=texi2dvi
+ TEXI2PDF=texi2pdf
  EMACS=emacs
  MAKEINFO=@MAKEINFO@
  EMACSINFO=$(EMACS) -batch -q -no-site-file
  INFOSWI=-l texinfmt -f texinfo-every-node-update -f texinfo-format-buffer -f save-buffer
  XINFOSWI=-l texinfmt -f texinfo-every-node-update -f texinfo-format-buffer -f save-buffer
+ PDFLATEX=pdflatex
  LATEX=latex
  DVIPS=dvips
  PERL=perl
***************
*** 23,29 ****
  
  most: texi2latex.elc latex latexps
  
! .SUFFIXES: .texi .dvi .ps
  
  .texi:
  	if test -x $(MAKEINFO); then \
--- 25,31 ----
  
  most: texi2latex.elc latex latexps
  
! .SUFFIXES: .texi .dvi .ps .pdf
  
  .texi:
  	if test -x $(MAKEINFO); then \
***************
*** 34,47 ****
--- 36,62 ----
  
  dvi: gnus.dvi message.dvi refcard.dvi emacs-mime.dvi
  
+ pdf: gnus.pdf message.pdf refcard.pdf emacs-mime.pdf
+ 
  .texi.dvi :
  	$(PERL) -n -e 'print unless (/\@iflatex/ .. /\@end iflatex/)' $< > gnustmp.texi
  	$(TEXI2DVI) gnustmp.texi
  	cp gnustmp.dvi $*.dvi
  	rm gnustmp.*
  
+ .texi.pdf :
+ 	$(PERL) -n -e 'print unless (/\@iflatex/ .. /\@end iflatex/)' $< > gnustmp.texi
+ 	$(TEXI2PDF) gnustmp.texi
+ 	cp gnustmp.pdf $*.pdf
+ 	rm gnustmp.*
+ 
+ 
  refcard.dvi: refcard.tex gnuslogo.refcard gnusref.tex
  	$(LATEX) refcard.tex
+ 
+ refcard.pdf: refcard.tex gnuslogo.refcard gnusref.tex
+ 	epstopdf gnuslogo.refcard --outfile=gnuslogo.refcard.pdf
+ 	$(PDFLATEX) refcard.tex
  
  clean:
  	rm -f gnus.*.bak *.ky *.cp *.fn *.cps *.kys *.log *.aux *.dvi *.vr \


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