Re: [Help-glpk] Re: producing PDF documentation

[Nigel Galloway]

Is make doc a feature that will be supported in future versions of glpk?

The DjVu files included in the distribution read ok on Linux and Windows, apart 
from being in dingbats. Why not extend their use?

The dvi files read on my Fedora but not my Ubuntu system. Ironic that dvi is 
supposed to be device independant but actually is very dependant on the fonts 
installed on the X-server

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Makhorin" <address@hidden>
> To: "Nigel Galloway" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, "Robbie Morrison" <address@hidden>, "Stephan Hennig" 
> <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Help-glpk] Re: producing PDF documentation
> Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 17:45:40 +0300
> 
> 
> >> PS: What about replacing glpk.ps by glpk.pdf, given that
> >>
> >> * nowadays, PDF provides better accessibility than PS,
> >> * pdfTeX is known to produce very good (compatible) PDF code,
> >> * hyper link, outline, PDF meta data, and XMP data support can be easily
> >> added for PDF output,
> >> * PDF size is around 260 kB smaller than PS size,
> >> * ...
> >>
> 
> Glpk documentation (like documentation of other GNU packages) is neither
> .ps nor in .pdf format. It is plain text files in TeX-based format. This
> is recommended by the GNU Coding Standards; see:
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#GNU-Manuals
> 
> .Dvi and .ps versions of the glpk documentation are included in the
> distribution only for the sake of convenience. Normally, as it is made
> in most GNU packages, documentation is produced on building the package
> with 'make doc'. However, sometimes it is problematic, because requires
> the TeX system to be installed, and until recently such feature was
> unavailable, for example, for cygwin users.

>


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