* Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r99589: Regenerate de-refcard.pdf. [not found] <E1Nm1kc-0000aC-BB@internal.in.savannah.gnu.org> @ 2010-03-01 14:46 ` Stefan Monnier 2010-03-01 18:56 ` Glenn Morris 2010-03-01 21:19 ` Glenn Morris 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Stefan Monnier @ 2010-03-01 14:46 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: emacs-devel > message: > Regenerate de-refcard.pdf. > modified: > etc/refcards/de-refcard.pdf Why do we keep those files in the VCS? Stefan ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r99589: Regenerate de-refcard.pdf. 2010-03-01 14:46 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r99589: Regenerate de-refcard.pdf Stefan Monnier @ 2010-03-01 18:56 ` Glenn Morris 2010-03-01 19:37 ` Lennart Borgman 2010-03-01 21:19 ` Glenn Morris 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Glenn Morris @ 2010-03-01 18:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: emacs-devel Stefan Monnier wrote: >> etc/refcards/de-refcard.pdf > > Why do we keep those files in the VCS? I can only point to etc/refcards/README: Some of the *.tex files need special versions of TeX to typeset them. The files cs-*.tex and sk-*.tex need csTeX, a special version of TeX tailored to typesetting Czech and Slovak documents. We provide generated files for these documents, so that you could print them without installing the modified TeX versions. I did have to install extra stuff for German, Russian, Polish and Czech. But I suspect that most distributions that provide TeX also provide easily installable add-on language support. More generally, I guess it's because TeX itself is not on all systems and the size of the PDFs is not great. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r99589: Regenerate de-refcard.pdf. 2010-03-01 18:56 ` Glenn Morris @ 2010-03-01 19:37 ` Lennart Borgman 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Lennart Borgman @ 2010-03-01 19:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: Stefan Monnier, emacs-devel On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>> etc/refcards/de-refcard.pdf >> >> Why do we keep those files in the VCS? ... > More generally, I guess it's because TeX itself is not on all systems > and the size of the PDFs is not great. I think that was the rationale, yes. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r99589: Regenerate de-refcard.pdf. 2010-03-01 14:46 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r99589: Regenerate de-refcard.pdf Stefan Monnier 2010-03-01 18:56 ` Glenn Morris @ 2010-03-01 21:19 ` Glenn Morris 2010-03-02 15:01 ` Stefan Monnier 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Glenn Morris @ 2010-03-01 21:19 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: emacs-devel Stefan Monnier wrote: > Why do we keep those files in the VCS? Or maybe you meant: "why are these files, which are automatically generated using specialized tools, in the VCS, when the info files, which are automatically generated using specialized tools, are not in the VCS, but rather generated when needed and included in the release tar-balls?" It's an idea. Some differences between the two cases: makeinfo is smaller and easier to install than TeX TeX installations are more variable than texinfo ones. Doing `pdftex foo.tex', it's never exactly clear what you're going to get, in terms of paper-size, fonts, etc. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r99589: Regenerate de-refcard.pdf. 2010-03-01 21:19 ` Glenn Morris @ 2010-03-02 15:01 ` Stefan Monnier 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Stefan Monnier @ 2010-03-02 15:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: emacs-devel > TeX installations are more variable than texinfo ones. Doing `pdftex > foo.tex', it's never exactly clear what you're going to get, in terms > of paper-size, fonts, etc. OK, thanks, Stefan ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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