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Re: PATCH build documentation project with pkgsrc
On Fri, August 4, 2006 5:35 am, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Why do you use tex and not pdftex/pdfetex? I think that creating
> postscript-dvi and converting them to PDF is quite inferior to doing it
> directly.
Inertia - because that's what the doc build system was using when we
brought it in. Switching to pdftex sounds like a good idea, especially
since that part seems to be where we're having trouble.
The 'DocBook -> whatever' process has become more simplified as more free
tools have matured; the doc framework could use some updating.
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