Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As a consequence, you can't be sure to get the same document by simply >> running pdflatex over the source file. > > This is an excellent reason for why the documentation *should* be > rebuilt. How do you know that you can make a reasonable document > unless you build it yourself?
If the usual dtx mantra: pdflatex <package>.dtx makeindex -s gind.ist makeindex -s gglo.ist -o <package>.gls <package>.glo pdflatex <package>.dtx runs without errors, you know that you *can* make a reasonable document, but you have not necessarily just created one. > How do you fix errors in the document? > As Bas wrote, all binaries must be built from source. This is one of > many reasons why. This has never happened for LaTeX documentation, and nobody has ever complained. The CTAN policy has recently been amended to require (or is it still "encourage"?) that authors include the ready-made PDF version of the documentation exactly because of the problems with local configuration. Furthermore, we simply won't be able to do the work for all those documents: $ dlocate -L tetex-doc | egrep '\.dvi\.gz|\.pdf\.gz' |wc -l 337 at least not in a reasonable timeframe. And it still doesn't answer my question whether we can distribute documents prepared with a non-free, distributable font. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)