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Re: [Axiom-developer] DeveloperNotes.pamphlet
From: |
Gabriel Dos Reis |
Subject: |
Re: [Axiom-developer] DeveloperNotes.pamphlet |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:42:40 -0500 (CDT) |
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
| [snip]
|
| > I've modified that file (on build-improvements) to take into account
| > the exit status of latex and the makefiles do now take it into
| > account. The consequences is that it exposes few cases where the
| > typesetting process is not OK. The above mentioned file is one of
| > them. In particular is contains in various places characters '$', '#'
| > un-escaped, enclosed in [[ ]]. It also contains things like
| >
| > [[./lib/htrefs]]\\
| > [[./lib/htsearch]]\\
| > [[./lib/hthits]]
|
| > which confuses latex in many places. etc.
|
| > My question was whether anybody actually tried to typeset that file
| > successfully.
|
| I haven't sent you the commands for nothing.
You probably think I'm kidding and made this all out of the air?
| Run them and you'll see
| that everything IS fine. DeveloperNotes.pamphlet is a noweb file, so you
| have to noweave it before running latex on it.
I was NOT doing anything by hand till the build failed precisely on
that point. Everything is done by the Makefiles which does
${DOCUMENT} them.
| The [[...]] syntax is from noweb.
yes, I know. Thanks.
[...]
| By the way, I rather think that latexing files should not be done by
| "document" but rather by some well designed Makefile logic.
that is what they are if you have a look at the Makefiles.
Thanks.
-- Gaby
Re: [Axiom-developer] DeveloperNotes.pamphlet, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/09/10
Re: [Axiom-developer] DeveloperNotes.pamphlet, Ralf Hemmecke, 2006/09/10