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Date:      Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:18:26 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To:        Joseph King <king@v2project.com>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: issues with fdp-primer book
Message-ID:  <20021215001826.GA5083@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20021213080259.GA49067@v2project.com>
References:  <20021212233646.GA44211@v2project.com> <20021213080259.GA49067@v2project.com>

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On 2002-12-13 09:02, Joseph King <king@v2project.com> wrote:
> Ok, forget the jadetext issue, i follow the quickstart method that give
> the execution of "make JADETEX=no" for the docproc environment,
>
> this method not say that pdf output are not possible without jadetex
> package, will be good a short description explain this issue because
> quick method its the firts thing that a impatient reader tend to look
> for starting to write a doc.
> i think.

Perhaps a note like this?  Something like this should be enough to
avoid foot shooting, when picking JADETEX=no.

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Index: chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/tools/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -r1.22 chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml	17 Aug 2002 19:59:05 -0000	1.22
+++ chapter.sgml	15 Dec 2002 00:17:02 -0000
@@ -72,7 +72,9 @@
 
       <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>make JADETEX=no install</userinput></screen>
 
-      as necessary.</para>
+      as necessary.  Note that you can only produce HTML and ASCII
+      text output if you install the tools using <makevar>JADETEX=no</makevar>.
+      PostScript or PDF output require that TeX is installed.</para>
   </tip>
 
   <sect1>
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