[Pkg-octave-devel] PDF version of Octave-FAQ

[Rafael Laboissiere]

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* John W. Eaton <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu> [2005-02-21 12:01]:

> On 21-Feb-2005, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> | If nobody objects, I am going to
> | replace the PS files by the PDF files in the octave2.1-doc package.
> 
> I don't object.  I've been thinking of adding a PDF version of the
> manual to the core distribution.  Now I've done that.  I also added
> rules for the liboctave docs, though they were never complete and are
> hopelessly out of date now.
> 
> | 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 $<
> 
> Thanks, this is what I used.

I noticed the changes in 2.1.66.  Thanks.  However, the FAQ is not built in
PDF format.  Attached below is the patch that I am using in the Debian
package for doing that.

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Rafael

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#! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run
## 50_build-faq-pdf.dpatch by Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
##
## DP: Build Octave-FAQ.pdf from texi sources

@DPATCH@

--- octave2.1-2.1.66.orig/doc/faq/Makefile.in
+++ octave2.1-2.1.66/doc/faq/Makefile.in
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
 
 TEXINFO := Octave-FAQ.texi
 
-FORMATTED := Octave-FAQ.info Octave-FAQ.dvi Octave-FAQ.ps Octave-FAQ*.html
+FORMATTED := Octave-FAQ.info Octave-FAQ.dvi Octave-FAQ.ps Octave-FAQ.pdf \
+	Octave-FAQ*.html
 
 DISTFILES := Makefile.in $(TEXINFO) $(FORMATTED)
 
@@ -49,6 +50,11 @@
 Octave-FAQ.ps: Octave-FAQ.dvi
 	-dvips -o Octave-FAQ.ps Octave-FAQ.dvi
 
+Octave-FAQ.pdf: Octave-FAQ.texi
+	-TEXINPUTS="$(srcdir):$(srcdir)/..:$(TEXINPUTS):"; \
+	  export TEXINPUTS; \
+	  $(TEXI2PDF) $(srcdir)/Octave-FAQ.texi
+
 # These option forms are supported by texi2html 1.65 and probably also
 # more recent versions.
 Octave-FAQ_toc.html:

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