On 2023-08-12 23:46, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Deri, > > My end goal is to be able to embed the creation of the PDF book in the > Makefiles. To that end, as a first step, I'd like to reuse part of > what we already have in the Makefile. Currently, we process all files > with -Tpdf, which I guess we'll be able to reuse. > > $ make build-pdf -kij >/dev/null 2>&1 > $ touch man2/gettimeofday.2 > $ make build-pdf V=1 | sed '/^[[:upper:]]/s/^/\n/' > > PRECONV .tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.tbl > preconv man2/gettimeofday.2 >.tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.tbl > > TBL .tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.eqn > tbl <.tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.tbl >.tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.eqn > > EQN .tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.pdf.troff > ! (eqn -Tpdf <.tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.eqn 2>&1 >.tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.pdf.troff) \ > | grep ^ >&2 > > TROFF .tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.pdf.set > ! (troff -Tpdf -wbreak -man <.tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.pdf.troff 2>&1 >.tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.pdf.set) \ > | grep ^ >&2 > > GROPDF .tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.pdf > gropdf <.tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.pdf.set >.tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.pdf > > What part of this "pipeline" can we reuse? I guess we can reuse the > .pdf.troff files. The .pdf.set files probably cannot be reused for > the single book, as they'll have the page numbers and so on already > set, right? > > So, I'm imagining that we could cat(1) your front cover with all > these files, and then process with troff(1) and gropdf(1). Does > that make sense? > > Could we also reuse the .pdf.set files and only run gropdf(1) on > the catenation of them? Oh, and another thing. I have a branch that uses the new MR macros. It would be interesting to use them to do the hyperlinking. If you want to check the branch, it's here: <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/log/?h=MR> However, I rebase that branch against master, to update it with any new man-page references that are introduced by new patches, so please don't rely on its stability (If you need something stable, we can agree on something). Cheers, Alex > > Cheers, > Alex > -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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