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bug#14799: Request for building PDF manuals in A4 format
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#14799: Request for building PDF manuals in A4 format |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Oct 2019 05:54:06 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > Why is it a virtue to avoid new Makefile targets?
>>
>> It seems like a combinatorial explosion of rules.
>> bovine-a4-odd-page-open/bovine-letter-odd-page-open/bovine-a4-non-odd-page-open/bovine-letter-non-odd-page-open
>> etc.
>
> Did anyone ask for all those additional options?
Yup. The request was for A4 and odd page opens, which should be
independent options, I think...
> And you can always make the addition targets just set a value of a
> Make variable, which will then be picked up by -t.
>
> Anyway, just an idea. If no one likes it, I'm okay.
And in any case, I had misunderstood the documentation -- I thought
@ifset was about environment variables, but they aren't. They're about
flags, so you're right: The only way to inject the flags are via -t
switches.
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bug#14799: Request for building PDF manuals in A4 format, Angelo Graziosi, 2019/10/01