From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 13 16: 6:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCD3F15348 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:06:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.2) id XAA99793; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 23:56:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 23:56:16 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Jay Nelson Cc: Nik Clayton , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Formatting Help Message-ID: <19990713235616.A24002@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990711210700.A61012@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Jay Nelson on Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 06:22:50PM -0500 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 06:22:50PM -0500, Jay Nelson wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > >A 'lite' TeX installation that lets FDP contributors build PS and PDF > >versions of the docs without needing the full install of teTeX would be > >a useful option to have. > > I think so, too, particularly since teTeX runs to 100+MB now. I've > just started, so we should know in a while. > > If this looks productive, I suspect I'll probably need some help from > those working in other languages to make sure we are getting all the > right pieces -- but I'm getting ahead of myself. > > I'll keep you posted. Sounds great, and please do. Thanks for working on this -- anything that makes the doc building process more accessible is generally a good thing. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message