Bug#390471: ship compiled version of tex documents

Jérémy Bobbio lunar at debian.org
Wed Jul 18 10:22:24 UTC 2007


On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Instead of xml-howto.tex.gz and xml-ref.tex.gz, it would be more useful
> to ship a compiled version of these files, say in PDF, so they can
> actually be read by normal people.

A compiled version in text format is actually shipped in
xml-howto.txt.gz and xml-ref.txt.gz.

python-xml is installed quite widely so I am a bit relunctant to waste
disk space for a PDF version.  Removing the LaTeX source sounds like a
good option to avoid further confusion.

Cheers,
-- 
Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
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