Re: [Axiom-developer] build-improvements and latex

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Page, Bill" <address@hidden> writes:

| On Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:05 PM Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
| > 
| > Waldek wrote:
| > ...
| > > | 3) axiom.bib.tex file contains 10 file names with 
| > > |    unescaped underscores inside.
| > ...
| > Gaby wrote:
| > >   For problem (3), I'm awaiting for input from others.
| > 
| > The drastic way... Remove axiom.bib.pamphlet (from which probably 
| > axiom.bib.tex was generated). That is not really a .bib file. It
| > is a collection of filenames. And I would rather see that the
| > translated documentation has hyperlinks instead of references to
| > a "bibliography" that consists of filenames.
| > 
| > If someone thinks that axiom.bib.pamphlet is a file in good 
| > LP style, I have not understood what LP means.
| 
| I support Ralf's view. The axiom.bib.pamphlet file doesn't make
| any sense to me.

So, what concretly do you propose as course of action?

| > Underscores would be no problem at all if filenames where
| > properly tagged. Note that there is a latex package called url
| > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/url.sty) which provides a \path
| > command. Together with hyperref one can turn that also into
| > hyperlinks.
| > 
| 
| I like this idea but I think it might need more thought. How do
| we want to present this large collection of Axiom documentation
| files to a user?

You are right that the need for presenting the collection of Axiom
source files are references will not go away by axiom.bib.pamphlet.
We still need to links to references sections in other files.

| How will they navigate? How will this interact,
| or will it interact with hyperdoc? Will they be searchable? What
| is better, dvi or pdf? Etc.

PDF has my vote.

-- Gaby