On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 01:36:19PM +0200, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> > I compiled the book successfully, it works like a charm!
>
> Thank you.
>
> > One comment: to enable pdf hyperlink, you need to use
> > "latex" to compile the source twice.
> book.ps: book.dvi
> makeindex book
> ${MAKE} $<
> ${MAKE} $<
> dvips $<
>
Hmm, IIUC running make twice is supposed to produce the same
effect as running it once (on the second run make should note
that book.dvi is up to date and do nothing. In fact, since
book.dvi is a dependency, both make runs above should be
redundant. Correct sulition is to duplicate latex command
or use stamp files if there is need for something more complex.
> > Once this is merged, I'd like to improve this documentation
> > book more.
>
> Maybe here our views differ. I somehow tend to keep the book close to
> its original form and rather create a new book or other forms of
> tutorials, but if more people rather want to see a modernized version of
> the content of the book, I am not against such a change. In the end it
> is much more important for current users to have helpful documentation.
> The historical version of the book can always be retrieved from the time
> when my commits are included. That is why we have version control.
I think that what to do depends on scope of intended work. Clearly
we want small improvement and especially corrections to current
book. OTOH it is better to make larger works separate.
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Waldek Hebisch
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