RE: [Axiom-developer] build-improvements and latex

[Page, Bill]

On Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:05 PM Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> 
> Waldek wrote:
> ...
> > | 3) axiom.bib.tex file contains 10 file names with 
> > |    unescaped underscores inside.
> ...
> Gaby wrote:
> >   For problem (3), I'm awaiting for input from others.
> 
> The drastic way... Remove axiom.bib.pamphlet (from which probably 
> axiom.bib.tex was generated). That is not really a .bib file. It
> is a collection of filenames. And I would rather see that the
> translated documentation has hyperlinks instead of references to
> a "bibliography" that consists of filenames.
> 
> If someone thinks that axiom.bib.pamphlet is a file in good 
> LP style, I have not understood what LP means.

I support Ralf's view. The axiom.bib.pamphlet file doesn't make
any sense to me.

> 
> Underscores would be no problem at all if filenames where
> properly tagged. Note that there is a latex package called url
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/url.sty) which provides a \path
> command. Together with hyperref one can turn that also into
> hyperlinks.
> 

I like this idea but I think it might need more thought. How do
we want to present this large collection of Axiom documentation
files to a user? How will they navigate? How will this interact,
or will it interact with hyperdoc? Will they be searchable? What
is better, dvi or pdf? Etc.

Regards,
Bill Page.