Re: Doc questions

[Justin Walker <justin@mac.com>]

On Friday, Apr 18, 2003, at 05:46 US/Pacific, Karim BELABAS wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Justin Walker wrote:
> > 1) Ref card - on my system (Mac OS X, 10.2.5), attempting to print the
> > ref card shows a mismatch between paper and orientation of the text
> > (text wants landscape; paper is 'normal').  Is that a glitch in the
> > .TeX file, or in Mac OS X somehow?
>
> dvips -t landscape  ?

Further checking shows me that I did that to myself.  I was trying to 
get a better-looking on-line version, and built it with another ps 
distiller.  Thanks.

> > 2) Can one build a PDF file with 'live links' (as in the down-loadable
> > PDF)?  When I build it locally (TeXShop), I don't get the live links.
>
> The downloadable manuals were produced with 'make docpdf' [ tetex
> distribution (it shouldn't matter, we simply need pdftex) ]

Again, I built the PDF myself.  Making this way gives me the live 
links.  Thanks!

> > 3) The 'users' guide seems to be remade every time I 'make'.  Is that
> > expected?
>
> It's a glitch in the dependency system: the manual depends on a file
> (users.std) which is erased once the users.dvi target is built [ 
> because of
> the 2-pass process: if users.std is not there, FIRST PASS and write 
> index
> entries, else SECOND PASS and include index ].

> Not worth it IMHO [ I'd rather switch to standardized LaTeX than 
> emulate
> further its behaviour ].

Fine with me; I was just curious as to the explanation.

Thanks for the reply.

Regards,

Justin

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