Re: [Corelinux-develop] PDF generation problem fixed.

[Frank V. C. <fr...@co...>]

Hans - Dulimarta wrote:
> 
> 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.

Cool

> 
> > 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.

I'll keep an eye out and then as long as Christophe doesn't complain
I'll get the 0.4.25 together (Docs + tar.gz) and let him have at
creating the packages. I then upload (ftp) to sourceforge and viola!
 
> >
> > 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?

If re-distributing rcs.sty doesn't cause a license snafu in regards to
the CoreLinux LGPL, I have no problem with including it in htdocs/tex.
This is primarily for tarball or CVS grabs of the system, the doc
package I do just pulls the resulting *.dvi, *.pdf, etc.
 
> 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.

There should be one date, the "Documentation revised" one with the RCS
$Date$. The other is a throw back to the StarOffice HTML editor macros,
long gone away now.

Thanks Hans!

Frank