problems formatting the Gnus manual

problems formatting the Gnus manual

[Steinar Bang]

Platform: UltraSPARC, Solaris 2.5.1, teTeX 0.4-pl3, rgnus-0.82

I get the following error message, both with the texinfo.tex that came
with teTeX (dated jun 9 1996), and with the texinfo.tex that came with
texinfo-3.9 (dated sep 30 1996), the latest version of texinfo, I
could find.

	/fox/sb/src/install/rgnus-0.82/texi% texi2dvi gnus.texi                         This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1)
	(gnus.texi
	Hyphenation patterns for english, german, loaded.
	(texinfo.tex Loading texinfo package [Version 2.185]: Basics, fonts,
	page headings, tables, indexing, sectioning, toc printing, environments,
	defuns, cross reference, and turning on texinfo input format.)
	! Undefined control sequence.
	l.14 @iflatex
	             
	? ^D
	! Emergency stop.
	l.14 @iflatex
	             
	No pages of output.
	Transcript written on gnus.log.
	/fox/sb/src/install/rgnus-0.82/texi% 

I've searched the FAQ for the words "texi", "manual", and
"postscript", without finding anything that looked like a relevant
match.

Help/hints/pointers/etc. appreciated, as always!

Thanx!


- Steinar

Re: problems formatting the Gnus manual

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> 	! Undefined control sequence.
> 	l.14 @iflatex

The gnus.texi file as distributed with Red Gnus isn't really a TeXinfo
file.  (Well, it *is*, but there's more gruft in there.)  To make the
dvi file, just say "make dvi" in the texi dir.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen

Re: problems formatting the Gnus manual

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>:

> Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>> l.14 @iflatex

> The gnus.texi file as distributed with Red Gnus isn't really a TeXinfo
> file.  (Well, it *is*, but there's more gruft in there.)  To make the
> dvi file, just say "make dvi" in the texi dir.

Hm... on an UltraSPARC, Solaris 2.5.1:
	/fox/sb/src/install/rgnus-0.82/texi% make dvi
	make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `gnus.dvi'
	/fox/sb/src/install/rgnus-0.82/texi% which make
	/usr/ccs/bin/make
	/fox/sb/src/install/rgnus-0.82/texi% 

It *did* work with GNU make (installed as "gmake"), though.


- Steinar

Re: problems formatting the Gnus manual

[Justin Sheehy]

>>>>> "Steinar" == Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

Steinar> Hm... on an UltraSPARC, Solaris 2.5.1:
Steinar> /fox/sb/src/install/rgnus-0.82/texi% make dvi make: Fatal
Steinar> error: Don't know how to make target `gnus.dvi'
Steinar> /fox/sb/src/install/rgnus-0.82/texi% which make
Steinar> /usr/ccs/bin/make /fox/sb/src/install/rgnus-0.82/texi%

Steinar> It *did* work with GNU make (installed as "gmake"), though.

Gnu make is the only version of make that I know of that knows to do
the implicit steps between targets. (without them being specified in
the Makefile, of course...)  I have not yet found a situation when any
other make is superior to the Gnu make.

Use it.  Love it.

I recommend aliasing make to gmake in your shell.

-Justin