Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Add target to build PDF manpages

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Thomas Schneider <thosch97@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Personally, I honestly am not quite sure why anybody wants to
>> generate manpages in the PDF format like this patch does, unless
>> they are planning to print them on paper, in which case the existing
>> manpages (git.1 and friends) or html pages (git.html and friends)
>> should be an already available source format.
> Somebody in the #git IRC channel...
> ... So, maybe most people are fine with the other formats, but those who
> need PDF can directly generate them.

I think you misunderstood me.  I am not dismissing the need for PDF;
I am just saying that there is no need to directly generate them
from asciidoc sources, especially when there are already manpages
and html pages available as source to "print" to PDF.

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