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 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
