Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom Book

[David MENTRE]

Hello,

root <address@hidden> writes:

>> a)  I was wondering if there is some way for the book to take advantage
>> of thinks like hyperlinking when producing a pdf?  I am able to use
>> LaTeX + pdflatex to do this in the Maxima book but the Axiom book build
>> seems to be integrated with the overall system build, so I'm not quite
>> sure how to customize it.

Look in axiom sources : src/doc/book.pamphlet is the latex source of the
book. It can be compiled with latex ou pdflatex without any issues
(except graphics for pdflatex).

> \usepackage{hyper}
> (or whatever hyperlinking package you have) and add hyperlinks.

The correct command is:
\usepackage{hyperref}

> If they were done in a way that didn't break the display of the
> book under such tools as xdvi then I'd be happy to include any
> hyperlinks you develop. Send me the changes and I'll try to 
> incorporate them.
>
> I'm a little concerned about pdf files, mostly because I haven't had
> much luck getting the book properly formatted. My pdfs are fuzzy and
> lack graphics.  Perhaps you will have more luck. I tend to stop at the
> .dvi file.

Because you haven't used pdflatex command. ;)

> David Mentre has done a pdf version.

Unfortunatly without graphics. I just ran pdflatex on the book.pamphlet
file. 

Yours,
d.
-- 
David MENTRE <address@hidden> -- http://www.nongnu.org/axiom/