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To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: TeX support in bsd.doc.mk? 
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 12:44:45 -0700
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com>
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> Then for your site in /etc/make.conf you set PRINTER=dvi, simple enough??

Simple but this defeats the purpose of the `PRINTER' var.

> 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.

Why not use a different variable?  TEXOUT or something?
PRINTER connotes a different thing and it will confuse
people.  I agree it must be overrideable but for TeX the
default should be its `native' output format.