Re: Linux man-pages PDF book

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 01:37:15PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Deri,
> 
> Since the conversation in groff's bug report was getting off-topic, I'm
> opening this email thread.
> 
> The makefile target was recently renamed from build-book to
> build-pdf-book (for consistency reasons).
> 
> I also reorganized the files to put them inside the build system.  Here
> are now the files most relevant for generating the book:
> 
> 	$ find \
> 		share/mk/configure/build-depends/texlive-fonts-extra/ \
> 		share/mk/build/fonts/ \
> 		share/mk/build/pdf/book/ \
> 		-type f;
> 	share/mk/configure/build-depends/texlive-fonts-extra/Tinos.pfb.mk
> 	share/mk/build/fonts/_.mk
> 	share/mk/build/fonts/TINOR
> 	share/mk/build/fonts/tinos.mk
> 	share/mk/build/pdf/book/_.mk
> 	share/mk/build/pdf/book/prepare.pl
> 	share/mk/build/pdf/book/front.roff
> 	share/mk/build/pdf/book/an.tmac

Another thing I want to do, as mentioned in the groff bug, is to remove
our an.tmac.  Is there any change we can use a minimal definition that
we can cat(1) to the system an.tmac?  Or maybe instead of cat(1)ing it,
tell groff(1) to use our definition in addition to -man.

> 
> I removed the Tinos.pfa file, since now I generate it at build time
> from the Tinos.pfb file (installed with Debian's texlive-fonts-extra).
> 
> Either the reorganization, or the generation of the font results in a
> new warning:
> 
> troff:<standard input>:1649: error: cannot load font 'TINOR' to mark it as special
> 
> Since I didn't notice any changes in the PDF visually, and I removed a
> gigantic binary file, I proceeded with it, even with the new warning.
> It would be great if we can do something similar to get rid of the TINOR
> file, and generate it at build time.
> I would also like to do the same with the Unifont font, which I haven't
> yet added because I hate adding gigantic binary files to the repo.
> 
> There's also the page issue.  Now it seems to reset the page number for
> every TH.
> 
> Have a lovely day!
> Alex

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