[Qgis-community-team] manual build procedure

[Tara Athan]

Thanks for the explanation- that makes more sense to me now.
Sure, when you have time I think this would be very helpful to find an 
alternative to the makefiles.

Thanks, Tara


Thomas Becker wrote:
> Tara, I was not sure about the abilities of make in a msys environment.
>
> Theoretical it should work by running LaTeX in the normal way (latex 
> *.tex -> bibtex *.tex -> latex *.tex -> latex *.tex)
>
> As far as I know, Otte wrote the make file also to convert all the 
> *.png files to *.eps files. It works fine, but there is also a 
> disadvantage in this. While converting the pictures to eps they become 
> bigger in memory size. Besides, there is no reason to convert the 
> pictures because pdflatex can handle png files and the outcome is a 
> pdf file.
>
> For now the process is converting all the pictures to eps,
> runs latex, bibtex, latex the second time and probably a third time as 
> well. The outcome of this procedure is a *.ps file. Afterwards a 
> conversion is done from *.ps to *.pdf.
>
> However, while using pdflatex we could reduce the procedure to:
>
> 1. pdflatex *.tex
> 2. bibtex *.tex
> 3. pdflatex *.tex
> if necessary
> 4. pdflatex *.tex.
>
> So far I still have to hav a look in the make file to know what is set 
> there (e.g. paths to pictures and other files) and then I will try to 
> figure out a way how to get this done without using a make file. 
> Instead I would like to keep it all in LaTeX, because LaTeX is 
> platform independent.
>
> Thomas
>
> Tara Athan schrieb:
>> Thomas- as far as I know, \includegraphics is used for all images.
>>
>> Can you give me more information on how this will work?
>> It would be great to have a single build procedure that is 
>> independent of platform, but not so good if this involves splitting 
>> off procedures for each platform. Keeping the procedures synchronized 
>> might cause more difficulty than the current approach of using msys, 
>> which is working fine for me on my Windows XP.
>>
>> Tara
>>
>> Thomas Becker wrote:
>>> Hi Tara,
>>>
>>> at the moment I am a bit busy with my Ph.D. an my following 
>>> position. However I was talking with Otto about the manual and the 
>>> way how it is build with LaTeX. Since the manual was formerly build 
>>> on a LaTeX running on Linux by using 'make' I would like to get the 
>>> procedure a bit more independent from the platform.
>>>
>>> How do you get e.g. the images into the file? Are you setting up 
>>> every path at the '\includegraphics' command?
>>>
>>> So, when I find time I am working on getting the manual creating 
>>> process  running on every LaTeX system out of the box, if this if 
>>> fine for you...
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Thomas
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