Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 12:28:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: bakul@netcom.com (Bakul Shah) Cc: nate@trout.sri.mt.net, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: TeX support in bsd.doc.mk? Message-ID: <199504251928.MAA10580@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199504251901.MAA20277@netcom9.netcom.com> from "Bakul Shah" at Apr 25, 95 12:01:26 pm
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> > > 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.
>
> IMHO .dvi being printer and resolution independent makes a
> better target because
Then for your site in /etc/make.conf you set PRINTER=dvi, simple enough??
My point was that the .mk file should not be written to assume any
prefered output format. Output should be selectable at build time
via ${PRINTER}. There should be a reasonalbe default value for this,
but it must be overrideable via /etc/make.conf.
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Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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