Re: PATCH build documentation project with pkgsrc

["Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, August 4, 2006 5:35 am, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Why do you use tex and not pdftex/pdfetex? I think that creating
> postscript-dvi and converting them to PDF is quite inferior to doing it
> directly.

Inertia - because that's what the doc build system was using when we
brought it in.  Switching to pdftex sounds like a good idea, especially
since that part seems to be where we're having trouble.

The 'DocBook -> whatever' process has become more simplified as more free
tools have matured; the doc framework could use some updating.