Re: [Axiom-developer] build-improvements and latex

[Ralf Hemmecke]

On 10/21/2006 06:21 PM, Bill Page wrote:
> On October 21, 2006 11:55 AM Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> > The pamphlet ending is a bit misleading. It is a perfect latex file.
> >
> > latex Rosetta.pamplet
> >
> > In a sense you are right. Running that file through noweave (with any 
> > option you like) doesn't give a proper (standalone) latex file.

> Yes, you are right. One of the advantages of the patch that Tim made
> to noweb was that (usually) one does not need to make the distinction
> between a noweb format file and a pure latex format file because the
> default handling of undefined chunk names is less disruptive.

That has nothing to do with the issue that src/doc/Rosetta.pamphlet does 
not contain any code chunk nor any unescaped << (in Gold, Silver or 
build-improvements).

Rosetta.pamphlet is a full latex file with \documentclass, 
\begin{document} ... \end{document}. If you do

noweave Rosetta.pamphlet > Rosetta.tex

then noweave adds some commands that are defined in noweb.sty (no matter 
whether you add switches like -n or -delay). Since Rosetta.pamphlet does 
not have any \usepackage in it, latex cannot succeed.

In fact src/doc/Makefile.pamplet has a target where I don't see 'noweave'.

Ralf

${DVI}/Rosetta.dvi: ${IN}/Rosetta.pamphlet
        @echo 5 building ${DVI}/Rosetta.dvi from ${IN}/Rosetta.pamphlet
        @(cd ${MID} ; \
        cp ${IN}/Rosetta.pamphlet ${MID} ; \
        if [ -z ${NOISE} ] ; then \
         (latex Rosetta.pamphlet --interaction nonstopmode >${TMP}/trace ; \
          latex Rosetta.pamphlet --interaction nonstopmode >${TMP}/trace ) ; \
        else \
         (latex Rosetta.pamphlet --interaction nonstopmode ; \
          latex Rosetta.pamphlet --interaction nonstopmode ) ; \
        fi ; \
        cp Rosetta.dvi ${DVI} )

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