[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> pl4.uu1 changed the way graphics is included into the latex
> file created by mudela-book. I was not comfertable with the
> way this made a mudela-book session look like:
>
> mudela-book myfile.doc (creates out/myfile.latex)
> cd out (trying to do latex out/myfile.latex
> fails)
> latex myfile.latex
> xdvi myfile
> cd ..
>
> Some changes in pl4.uu1 was that graphics is included as
> filename-0.0.0.tex, not out/filename-0.0.0.tex. This mean
> you have to cd into 'out' to process the file with latex,
> 'latex out/myfile.latex' fails.
that's weird. latex/myfile.latex just works for me.
> No one should really wany to edit out/myfile.latex before
> running latex on it. And if you need m4 processing you do it
> before you run mudela-book.
That's fine, but how would you (automatically) run bibtex and
makeindex? mudela-book should then provide hooks for that.
Oh, I see, you want mudela-book to be similar to "latex".
> All graphics files like myfile-0.0.0.tex will, as earlier,
> by default go into 'out'. Files created by latex, like
> '.log', '.aux' and '.ind' will be created in current dir,
> but this is how latex does things, and should not be a
> problem. This files should not be deleted by mudela-book
> after creating myfile.dvi because LaTeX need them for the
> second pass to create index and table of contents.
I disagree: all compilation mess (.aux, .log) should be in a
different directory (for instance out/), otherwise source directories
get cluttered.
> To make mudela-book behave like I have described, things
> should happen
> like this:
> * I will include tex and eps graphics into the latex
> document the way before pl4.uu1,
> \input out/myfile-0.0.0.tex instead of
> \input myfile-0.0.0.tex
> * the generated latex document will go into
> 'out/myfile.latex'
> * mudela-book will execute the command
> 'latex out/myfile.latex' that creates 'myfile.dvi', even
> if nothing has changed, because you might do it a second
> time to update indexes. Lilypond, tex or
> dvips should only be run when files have changed.
>
> If no one disagrees, I'll send a patch that makes the
> changes. (It is already written)
I am not the religious type of guy, I just want
make -C Documentation/tex WWW
to work.
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