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 16:16:08 +0100
* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> [2005-02-21 16:02]:
> 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 $<
I meant "doc/interpreter" instead of "doc" in the above.
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Rafael