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
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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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