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-$Id: README 742 2016-04-25 17:30:55Z karl $
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+$Id: README 914 2024-01-07 21:48:39Z karl $
(This README file public domain.)
Documentation files for pdfTeX:
-pdftex-a.pdf A4 paper size
-pdftex-l.pdf letter paper size
-pdftex-s.pdf screen format
-pdftex-b.pdf A5 booklet made from pdftex-a.pdf
-pdftex-b-e.pdf A5 booklet, even pages
-pdftex-b-o.pdf A5 booklet, odd pages
+Final output:
+pdftex-a.pdf PDF at A4 paper size
+pdftex-l.pdf PDF at letter paper size
+
+Sources:
+pdftex.tex source for manual (LaTeX)
+pdftexmanual.cls document class for manual (LaTeX)
+incl/pdfmin-src.tex source for tiny pdf example (plain)
+incl/pdfmin-fmt.tex source for formatting it (ConTeXt)
-pdftex-t.tex source for manual (ConTeXt)
-pdftex-w.tex source for title page (plain)
-pdftex-i.tex settings for screen output (ConTeXt)
+Files to be kept in sync (more or less) with outside sources:
+incl/fdl-1.2.tex license text, static
+incl/ini-etex.txt .ini example, static
+incl/ini-pdfetex.txt another .ini example, static
+incl/pdftexconfig.txt example pdftex config file
-pdftex-help.txt output of --help
-pdftex-syntax.tex primitives and syntax rules, autogenerated from manual
-pdftex-syntax.txt autogenerated from .tex
+Generated files:
+incl/pdftex-help.txt output of --help, must be updated by hand
+incl/pdftex-syntax.tex primitives and syntax rules, autogenerated from manual
-syntaxform.pl script for making pdftex-syntax.tex
-syntaxform.awk script for making pdftex-syntax.txt
+Helper script:
+syntaxform.pl script for making incl/pdftex-syntax.tex
The Makefile has the rules for building everything.
-For Windows, see makefiles.cmd, though it has not been updated in years.
If working on the manual, make clean removes all the temporary files.
make maintainer-clean removes everything that can be generated.