[Corelinux-develop] PDF generation problem fixed.

[Hans - D. <dul...@eg...>]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Frank V. Castellucci wrote:

> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 07:31:16 -0400
> From: Frank V. Castellucci <fr...@co...>
> To: Hans - Dulimarta <dul...@eg...>
> Subject: Re: Commited?
> 
> Hans - Dulimarta wrote:
> > 
> 
> I see you fixed the problem, although I am having access problems to CVS
> at this time I will get it later and test it.
>

I also fixed the error which occured when generating the PDF output.
Apparently, pdflatex complained about 'old toc file exist'. So, I modified
the Makefile to remove $(CORE).toc before running pdflatex.
 
> Another thing to note, when the PDF, DVI, etc. are built they are also
> checked in because at the moment we can't build them on the shell server
> (for web access) because the tools aren't there. I know this is
> inconvenient and we should discuss changes for the future. Maybe the
> compile farm server would be ideal.

I'll check them in as well.

> 
> In addition, you should "subscribe" to the corelinux-develop mailing
> list. Otherwise I have to go and approve every post from outside.

I just did.

> 
> With packages about to be released, it is a great time to discuss who
> wants to do what. There are really no limitations (Docs, Code, Web,
> Frameworks, Utilities, Applications) at this time, and although there
> are plenty of required types and function still missing from core, it
> doesn't preclude some framework expansion.
>

If you look at the cppstnd.tex document, you'll find something like
"${}$Revision: 1.3 ${}$". This is a TeX trick which I learned from the
comp.text.tex newsgroup to incorporate RCS keyword in LaTeX documents.  
The trick works for the .dvi, .ps. and .pdf output, but not for the .html
output.

latex2html convert the empty equations "${}$" to pictures and we can
see empty rectangles on the browser. Later on, one of the TeX gurus, Don
Arseneau, pointed me to rcs.sty. I tried it and it worked well.
However, rcs.sty is not part of the tetex instalation package.
How should we go about using this package? Should we put it under
htdocs/tex subdir or should we let the users install their own rcs.sty?

Another question: there are two date strings on the title. "May 8, 2000"
and "Documentation revised May 14, 2000". What are these dates? Which one
can be generated by RCS keyword $Date$?

Once the issues are finalized I'll make another cvs commit.

> I am just happy you guys have contributed at all.
> 
> See you on the corelinux-develop list!
> 
> 

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