Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:17:20AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Wait, there is less than 70MB of PDF. Yes, this is true. Due to >> > difficulties of making nice PDF out of XML/SGML without hitting FTBFS, >> > many packages does not bother PDF creation. Most of the doc containing >> > PDF are: >> >> Can you please be more specific about "difficulties ... nice ... FTBFS"? >> There have been some problems when teTeX 3.0 was uploaded to sid after >> sarge's release, but that was a one-time problem (and the central >> packages like debiandoc-smgl, linuxdoc etc. were fixed quite fast; >> db2latex was harder). Do you imply that people stopped generating PDF >> files last summer/autumn because of these problems? > > That pretty much it.
And which packages are affected? > >> Or are there other >> problems I am not aware of? > > doc-debian used to loop 6 times to build PDF. If a LaTeX document is complex, this can be in fact needed (although I've never seen anything needing more than 4 repetitions). It could also be a problem of the build system. In any case it has nothing to do with the fact that the sourceis xml/sgml, except maybe that there might be suboptimal converters involved. > Many Debiandoc packages > did not contain PDF for cjk. cjk is still a problem, that's right. I hope I'll be able to sponsor an upload of latex-cjk soon. > New build script is much more stable. Sorry, which build script are you talking about? doc-debian's? Then how is this a problem for generating PDF from xml/sgml sources? > I know some package build PDF first as upstream. Sorry, I don't understand what you want to say. > I fupdown does not come with documentation. ? It does contain documentation in form of example text files. If that's not enough, that's a problem of content, not of the format, isn't it? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
