>>>>> "Cedric" == Cedric Adjih <·····@johan.inria.fr> writes:
>>>>> "Karl" == Karl M. Hegbloom <·······@inetarena.com> writes:
Karl> I've begun to convert the CLX manual to GNU TeX-info
Karl> form. [...] Unless you've got the original sources to it...
Karl> I'm using the CLX postscript files that come along with
Karl> CMU-CL for Linux. The pages in them are in back-to-front
Karl> order, and there is no document-structuring, so `gv' cannot
Karl> page backwards in them, making it a real pain to read.
Cedric> Maybe adding the document-structuring header would work
Cedric> (it works with some documents, so well that I once patched
Cedric> ghostview to add an option a '--force-dsc', long ago).
That would be a good thing to put back into Ghostscript! You are
right, it works. I put the header at the top, copied from another
document, comments around the prolog, and a `%%Page: n m' comment
before every ghostscript `bop' command, and now there's page numbers
showing up in `gv'. Neato!
This will save me a lot of work. I'm going to write a quick `emacs
-q -batch' lisp function to add the comments and reverse the order of
the pages. I'll send them back to the CMU-CL maintainers; or better,
will drop them in one of my Public WWW directories, along with that
emacs program.
I will be able to build a Lectern (DEC SRC) file of it, drop it on my
Zip disk with the rest of the X Manuals, and read it from there. :-)
I hope `-PSfakeOCR' works.
It might still be worth the effort to re-create the CLX manual in
Texinfo markup. Perhaps I will keep working on that. Is anyone
interested in helping or just in having a copy of it? (The Texas
Instruments copyright explicitly allows this.)
Someone mentioned that GNU is no longer supporting Texinfo. That
cannot be true, because they have just released a new version.
Another person said to go straight to HTML, rather than Texinfo. I
don't think that's a good idea. The Texinfo source form is much more
versitile---it could be turned into HTML by `texi2html'.
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