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? I added a script to sort these files, as you do with your sortman() perl function. I called it sortman too :) $ cat scripts/sortman #!/bin/sh # Copyright 2023, Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx> # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later export LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8; sed -E '/\/intro./ s/.*\.([1-8])$/\10\t&/' \ | sed -E '/\/intro./!s/.*\.([1-8])$/\11\t&/' \ | sed -E '/\/intro./!s/.*\.([1-8].+)/\1\t&/' \ | sort \ | cut -f2; We'll probably need this to sort the files in the shell. > > Cheers, > Alex > -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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