Re: [AUCTeX] Re: 'macros.texi' missing in snapshots?

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2005-06-07) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> * Uwe Siart (2005-06-07) writes:
>>
>>> Does this mean that Win32 installation instructions will have to
>>> include hints for how to use the correct texi2dvi script?
>>
>> I'd rather move the stuff from preview/doc/ to doc/ and blast
>> preview/doc/.
>
> A volunteer, a volunteer!

You wish. (c;  Well, moving a few files around and adapting build
rules and references should not be that a big deal.  In case we don't
do any integration of the Texinfo manuals I'd just add a -preview.texi
suffix to the preview-latex files with clashing names.

>> Maybe we can manage to integrate both manuals without too much
>> effort.
>
> Problem is that
> ./configure --disable-preview
> still needs to create and install an AUCTeX without preview-latex:
> Emacs-21 on Windows, Carbon and other platforms remains an
> installation target, and for a while to come.
>
> While a common AUCTeX/preview-latex README would make sense, the
> respective sections would have to appear separately in the
> preview-latex and the AUCTeX Texinfo manuals.  It might be an idea,
> however, to redundantly place the preview-latex introduction into the
> AUCTeX manual as a teaser, but then one would need to make sure that
> all cross references go to the full manual.

If preview-latex were handled as a subsystem of AUCTeX in a unified
manual the fact that it was deactivated at build time would not affect
the manual.  A very cheap solution for this would be to dump the whole
preview-latex manual (mainly as-is) into the AUCTex manual as a
separate chapter.  A more expensive solution would be to integrate the
duplicate parts, like readme, faq, or todo into the corresponding
sections of the AUCTeX manual.  The latter approach would allow us to
remove the respective duplicate files as well.

-- 
Ralf