From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 25 12:32:09 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA10186 for current-outgoing; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 12:32:09 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA10176 ; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 12:32:05 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA10580; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 12:28:36 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504251928.MAA10580@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: TeX support in bsd.doc.mk? To: bakul@netcom.com (Bakul Shah) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 12:28:36 -0700 (PDT) Cc: nate@trout.sri.mt.net, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, current@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199504251901.MAA20277@netcom9.netcom.com> from "Bakul Shah" at Apr 25, 95 12:01:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 908 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > 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. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD