Bug#293562: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#293562: octave2.1-doc: Provide a pdf version
Rafael Laboissiere
Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>, 293562@bugs.debian.org
Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:02:27 +0100
* Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> [2005-02-21 07:34]:
> I think if you properly create the pdf from the dvi, you do in fact get
> better searching, indexing, thumb-size page images etc pp.
I think you mean pdf from texi. I tried the following:
(cd doc ; TEXINPUTS=".:./..::" texi2pdf octave.texi)
and the generated octave.pdf is perfect. If nobody objects, I am going to
replace the PS files by the PDF files in the octave2.1-doc package.
A suggestion for the upstream authors: you might include a rule for building
octave.pdf in doc/Makefile.in, something like this:
octave.pdf: $(MAIN_TEXINFO) $(SUB_TEXINFO) ../conf.texi
-TEXINPUTS="$(srcdir):$(srcdir)/..:$(TEXINPUTS):"; \
export TEXINPUTS; \
texi2pdf $<
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Rafael