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Subject: Re: TeX support in bsd.doc.mk?
To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 10:19:57 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199504251555.JAA11538@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 25, 95 09:55:47 am
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> 
> > > Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> > > > How do people feel about adding in some standard handy rules for this?
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure I follow?  What kind of rules?
> > 
> > TEXDOC=	foo
> > 
> > .include <bsd.doc.mk>
> > 
> > % make
> > tex foo.tex ...
> > ...
> > End up with foo.ps in obj.
> 
> Ahh, gotcha.  Do you want to go all the way to PS files, or just to .dvi
> files?  Generally xdvi is installed, and there are lots of dvi->misc
> converters which do a better job than the dvi->PS->misc conversion.

The resulting file type should depend on what ${PRINTER} is set to,
see 4.4 Lite bsd.doc.mk.


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