Re: Program to build the on-line manuals (HTML + PDF)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

>> I’ve committed an improved version of doc/build.scm as
>> ccadafdcefee012c261513e9d8663a22704bc496.
>>
>> It expects to be used from a Git checkout like so:
>>
>>   guix build -f doc/build.scm
>>
>> Hopefully it addresses the issues you had before, Ricardo.
>
> It does!  It’s really great.  I just updated guix.gnu.org with this
> command:
>
>    GUIX_WEB_SITE_URL="//guix.gnu.org/" ./pre-inst-env  guix build -f 
> doc/build.scm
>
> And then
>
>    rsync -rzvha --copy-links /gnu/store/…-guix-manual/ …/manual/

Neat!

>> There are a few FIXMEs in there (one is about TeX, as we discussed on
>> IRC last Friday) but it does the job.
>
> I see why you needed help with the modular TeX now… I started the
> wip-texlive branch to overhaul our TeX packages, but as it requires
> changes to svn-fetch and some core texlive-* packages it will need to be
> merged into core-updates at some point.

That sounds good, I’m really happy there’s a way forward.

What’s currently the most difficult for me is to find out which packages
I should add to the union to do the task at hand, but once I’ve found
out, it’s really nice.  :-)

Thank you,
Ludo’.