texi2dvi --pdf emacs-lisp-intro.tex

texi2dvi --pdf emacs-lisp-intro.tex

[Robert J. Chassell]

(Michael Gauland <mikelygee@no8wireless.co.nz> discovered this first.)

`texi2dvi --pdf emacs-lisp-intro.texi' fails when you

    @set smallbook
    @set print-postscript-figures

but only with 

    @smallbook
    @clear print-postscript-figures

(the latter puts plain ASCII figures in).

I do not know why.  `texi2dvi emacs-lisp-intro.texi' succeeds.

-- 
    Robert J. Chassell                          
    bob@gnu.org                                 bob@rattlesnake.com
    http://www.rattlesnake.com                  http://www.teak.cc

Re: texi2dvi --pdf emacs-lisp-intro.tex

[Glenn Morris]

Robert J. Chassell wrote:

> `texi2dvi --pdf emacs-lisp-intro.texi' fails when you
>
>     @set smallbook
>     @set print-postscript-figures
>
> but only with 
>
>     @smallbook
>     @clear print-postscript-figures
>
> (the latter puts plain ASCII figures in).

I can't really understand what you are saying here. The answer to the
question I think you are asking is that pdftex cannot handle
postscript figures.

I have added pdf versions of the figures, and a Makefile rule, to the
emacs CVS. The following works for me, with or without ASCII figures:

cd doc/lispintro
make emacs-lisp-intro.pdf

Re: texi2dvi --pdf emacs-lisp-intro.texi

[Robert J. Chassell]

Thank you.  I use texinfo version 4.13, a year later than that included
in the Emacs sources and it still fails.  I don't know why.  The
texinfo.tex file included with the Emacs sources is from 2007; I am
using one from 2008:

    \def\texinfoversion{2007-07-09.21}
    \def\texinfoversion{2008-04-18.10}

In any case, your changes work with the 2007 version of the file (as I
think they always did).  However, including PDF image files was smart.

-- 
    Robert J. Chassell                          
    bob@gnu.org                                 bob@rattlesnake.com
    http://www.rattlesnake.com                  http://www.teak.cc

Re: texi2dvi --pdf emacs-lisp-intro.texi

[Glenn Morris]

Robert J. Chassell wrote:

> I use texinfo version 4.13, a year later than that included in the
> Emacs sources and it still fails.

This seems to be caused by lines 33-34 of emacs-lisp-intro.texi:

  \global\let\urlcolor=\Black % don't print links in grayscale
  \global\let\linkcolor=\Black

I suggest just removing these lines, and updating misc/texinfo.tex in
Emacs. In the 2009-08-14.15 version of texinfo.tex, these colours are
defined as:

  % by default, use a color that is dark enough to print on paper as
  % nearly black, but still distinguishable for online viewing.
  \def\urlcolor{\rgbDarkRed}
  \def\linkcolor{\rgbDarkRed}