[tex-live] man&info
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Sun Jul 4 01:18:58 CEST 2004
1. I'm trying to update for the depot man pages as they are generated
but don't know how to rebuild .html versions
Well, there is a program man2html (installed on tug.org, for example),
although I don't know for a fact that that is what was used.
(and have no time for that:)
We should do so automatically, but that's one thing that doesn't have a
script or Makefile yet, as far as I know.
2. as for info pages I've got somehow different set (compared to p4), eg.
texinfo
texinfo-1
texinfo-2
texinfo-3
(without .info extension!),
The lack of the .info extension there is intentional. It's explained in
texinfo.txi; the weirdness is basically to appease rms, although I could
probably change it at this point. In any case, I made the name
texinfo.info by hand.
and also texi2html.info[-1-3],
web2c.info[-1-4]. p4 depot contains some more files (bzip2 etc.)
so I cannot just replace the whole set (including dir) and remade
.tpm files.
Let me be sure I understand.
Are you comparing the result of make install to what is in
texmf/doc/info?
If so, the answer is simple. Forget make install. I generated the info
files currently in p4 by hand, with makeinfo --no-split. (At Fabrice's
suggestion, it seemed silly to have multiple files, they just cause trouble.)
I wasn't aware that there was a texi2html.texi, but I see there is now.
Well, one of us can build that.
One possible improvement would be for the build process to pass
--no-split. Then the result of make install could be used. This should
be possible via MAKEINFO_FLAGS, etc.
Or, perhaps it would be even better to either have the Makefiles or a
script that builds the Info, HTML (also --no-split), and PDF files for
these manuals. I did all that by hand, since there aren't very many of
them and they don't often change. Before doing it again, I would
probably write a script :).
Any hint?
Does this help explain the situation?
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