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Aw: Re: Re: [PATCH] Remove pdf target from Makefiles

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Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Date
Jun 18, 2013, 17:30 UTC
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> 
> If I understood the original commit message correctly, you were saying
> the XML file was not suitable for html generation and you wanted to
> tweak it, and were dropping the PDF target to avoid breaking it.  Now
> if I understand correctly you are saying the XML file actually *is*
> suitable for html generation, and that the html generation rules just
> need tweaking.  In that case, why remove the PDF target?
>

The latter is correct ;-) In my commit message I talked about style files meaning /etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl and /etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty which are used when creating user-manual.pdf out of user-manual.xml and ./Documentation/docbook.xsl which is used for creating user-manual.html out of user-manual.xml. When I want to tweak the html generation rules I also have to tweak the pdf generation rules because html and pdf should be as similiar to each other as possible. But the pdf rules are global rules so we have to introduce rules local to git and also tweak both rule sets in parallel. I asked myself "Is this really worth the effort or should we drop user-manual.pdf and spend our efforts better on user-manual.txt and user-manual.html?" and so came up with this patch ...

--- Thomas

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