>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> + . pdftexi2dvi is a new wrapper to `texi2dvi --pdf', equal to texi2pdf, > + for sake of AUC-TeX which prepends `pdf' to the compilation command > + when requested to produce PDF. > Seems ugly. We already have one pointless wrapper, texi2pdf. Do we > really need to add another? Is it not feasible for auctex to add an if > statement to avoid this? Or how about simply making an alias for > yourself, since I rather suspect that the intersection of auctex and > texi2dvi users is a single person :)? I'm not that sure! But I'm definitely the first to finally is able to use both texi2dvi and AUC-TeX simultaneously (before I used AUC-TeX only for editing, and texi2dvi to compile, also AUC-TeX is a much better environment to compile than texi2dvi and the shell). So I guess some more people are likely to make the move if it proves useful. And indeed texi2dvi does provide some services that AUC-TeX does not support. I made this NEWS addition precisely to prompt AUC-TeX users. I agree pdftexi2dvi is bad, but that's really how AUC-TeX works -- currently. But it will be zillions of years before all the installations of AUC-TeX have a support for a different means to request PDF. And after all, there's a de facto standard here! > + -d, --depot=DIR specify where the tidy compilation is performed. > I don't especially like the term `depot', since I associate it with > source code repositories. How about simply --tidy-dir, or --directory > if there's a chance it will sometime be used in other modes? I didn't like it either, but before it was -w, --where ;) I don't like --tidy-dir, too long, and neither --directory, too meaningless. Actually this directory behaves very much like a depot. And I doubt people will believe texi2dvi provides VCS services ;) There are some more issues to improve the support of AUC-TeX. In particular it wants to see the .aux file, which is troublesome with --tidy. _______________________________________________ Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-texinfo
