Re: procedure for creating online Emacs manual?

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

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On 03/30/2018 05:58 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
>> I fixed the
>> problems that I found (e.g., we don't put refcards up on the web any
>> more)
> Yes we do?
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/index.html

Ouch. These were not in my copy of the CVS repository of the Emacs web pages, 
even after I did a "cvs update". Apparently my copy (which has been around for a 
while) was incorrect, or was updated incorrectly, or something. I removed my bad 
copy and got a fresh one from Savannah. Sorry about the false alarm. I restored 
the refcards commentary to admin/make-tarball.txt on master (see attached).

I tried to take your comments into account in the attached further patch. Thanks.

It's still not clear that the refcards are worth the maintenance hassle. I can't 
build them on either of my main build platforms right now, so I can't completely 
update the Emacs web pages.

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From 7bedc8812bd7ca1d9cf36636322068b28b690a85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 14:16:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Further improve advice in make-tarball.txt

See comments by Glenn Morris in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2018-03/msg00968.html
* admin/make-tarball.txt: Bring back refcard advice.
---
 admin/make-tarball.txt | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt
index f9ad217..9b9c964 100644
--- a/admin/make-tarball.txt
+++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors):
      make -C etc/refcards
      make -C etc/refcards clean
 
+    If etc/refcards does not build you may need to downgrade or
+    upgrade your TeX installation, or do that part of the build by
+    hand.  For clues, search for the string "refcard" in the file
+    admin/release-process.
+
 5.  Copy lisp/loaddefs.el to lisp/ldefs-boot.el.
 
     Commit ChangeLog.N, etc/AUTHORS, lisp/ldefs-boot.el, and the
@@ -231,11 +236,16 @@ as follows:
   gzip --best --no-name <../info/elisp.info >info/elisp.info.gz
   gzip --best --no-name <../info/emacs.info >info/emacs.info.gz
 
+Update the refcards/pdf/ and ps/ directories, and also
+refcards/emacs-refcards.tar.gz (use make -C etc/refcards pdf ps dist).
+
 FIXME: The above instructions are not quite complete, as they do not
-specify how to copy the generated files in the 'manual' directory to
-the corresponding web files.  Also, they are missing some files, e.g.,
+specify the manual procuedure used to copy the generated files in the
+'manual' directory to the corresponding web files, and to cvs remove
+and add files as needed.  Also, they are missing some files, e.g.,
 they generate manual/html_mono/ada-mode.html but do not generate the
-top-level ada-mode.html file for the one-node-per-page version.
+top-level ada-mode.html file for the one-node-per-page version; this
+is currently done by hand.
 
 Browsing <https://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?root=emacs> is one
 way to check for any files that still need updating.
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