From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) Subject: Re: Encripted documentation Date: 16 Jan 1993 00:49:14 -0600
john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:
>Ok, I got tired of all the flaming and got LaTex and fired it up to
>print out the LILO 0.7 documentation, I am NOT impressed! Although TeX
>works just fine on their sample file Gentle.tex, and dvilj2p prints it
>on my LJ-II like a champ. I go into the /usr/src/lilo/doc directory and
>try to print doc.tex and things don't go nearly as well! For what is
>supposed to be I believe a 38 page document, I get 13 pages, when I
>look through the doc.tex file, all seems to be there. What is the
>problem, I went back to the original lilo7.tar file and extracted it
>again with the same result.
1) There is no real reason to post 75+ lines of output when 5-10 would have
worked. Makes reading your messages real difficult and just wastes net
bandwidth and other peoples money. Remember most people pay for their news
feeds.
2) The Makefile is there for a damn good reason. You see those three files
with the fig extension? These are to be run through fig2dev to give tex
ouput. As the README stated somewhere in the lilo stuff. It also stated
to run the make 2-3 times until you got rid of most of the warnings.
After I read the README and did this, I got a 38 page document that printed
just fine. Then running it through dvi2tty meant I could print it out on
a plain ascii style printer.
James