Bruce Dubbs wrote:

> Pierre Labastie wrote:
> 
> >Bruce may answer  more completely than I, but I  think generating a
> >pdf book  needs a  lot of  tweaks (to  have lines  fit on  the page
> >width, specially). For  LFS, this is manageable, but  for BLFS, the
> >book is to big and its layout changes too often.
> 
> The above  is correct, but in  addition, I think the  pdf version is
> too big  to be useful.   It is over  2000 pages.  Copy/paste  in pdf
> versions of LFS are problematical, so  the same is probably true for
> a BLFS pdf.
> 
> That said, a user always has to  option of creating a pdf version of
> the book using the instructions in the LFS Makefile as a template:
>
> [...]

Thanks for  that, Bruce.  To be  honest, my main concern  was that the
missing PDF  might be the  result of  a failed installation  script or
something like that, rather than  a deliberate decision.  It is always
good to learn more about the reasons for these things.

Regards,

Jeremy Henty
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