Re: [Chicken-users] chicken.css and chicken.pdf

[felix winkelmann]

On 7/12/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  It's physically incorporated into the HTML files of the Chicken manual.
>
>
>  So what's the build method?  I don't find anything resembling an "include
> chicken.css" in chicken.texi, nor any reference to it anywhere in the Darcs
> tree.

The multiple-file HTML manual generated for the web-page is generated
by running makeinfo with --css-include=chicken.css. This HTML generation
does not take place in the normal build, since here we only have a single-file
HTML documentation. This will change in the future.

> >  The trouble is that carrying around a portable PDF-generation program
> > is more trouble than it's worth.
>
>
>
>  I don't care about Darcs having a program in it.  I care about Darcs having
> a build method in it.  I'm perfectly capable of installing whatever programs
> are necessary for the .pdf generation, or stubbing them if due to cost or
> complexity I can't install them.  Also I don't see why chicken.pdf itself
> can't be in Darcs.

Normally you'd need TeX. But this can be done by hand for the next release,
and should be generated from the wiki manual after that (after 2.4).


cheers,
felix