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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-make.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-make.html index a82c700079c..030afa9e158 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-make.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-make.html @@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ <h3>Makefiles for LaTeX documents</h3> <p/>LaTeX is a tricky beast for running <i>make</i> on: the need to instruct LaTeX to run several times for essentially different -reasons (for example, “get the table of contents stable”, “get the -labels stable”, “add the bibliography”, “add the index”) is -actually rather difficult to express in the ‘ordinary’ sort of +reasons (for example, “get the table of contents stable”, “get the +labels stable”, “add the bibliography”, “add the index”) is +actually rather difficult to express in the ‘ordinary’ sort of dependency graph that one constructs for <i>make</i>. <p/>The <i>latex-make</i> package offers help with this task (far more sophisticated techniques than in the FAQ building script); it @@ -15,35 +15,35 @@ looks good, but reports of its use (other than by its author) are scarce. was <i>latexmk</i>, which is a <i>Perl</i> script that analyses your LaTeX source for its dependencies, runs BibTeX or <i>makeindex</i> as and when it notices that those -programs’ input (parts of the <code>.aux</code> file, or the +programs’ input (parts of the <code>.aux</code> file, or the <code>.idx</code> file, respectively) has changed, and so on. <i>Latexmk</i> is a fine solution (and was used in generating printable versions of these FAQs for a long time); it has recently been upgraded and has many bells and whistles that allow it to operate as if it were a poor -man’s WYSIWYG system. +man’s WYSIWYG system. <p/>Apparently along the same lines, is AutoLaTeX. The <i>README</i> of the distribution is actual a Unix-type man-page output, and shows great attention to the details of the document production process. <p/>The <i>mk</i> (also, apparently, known as <i>latex_maker</i>) is a Ruby script for the task in hand; it works well with another of -the author’s scripts script called <i>vpp</i> (View and Print +the author’s scripts script called <i>vpp</i> (View and Print PostScript/PDF). -<p/>Windows users of the MiKTeX system may use that system’s +<p/>Windows users of the MiKTeX system may use that system’s <i>texify</i> application. <i>Texify</i> deals with basic LaTeX features, including generating a bibliography and an index; it makes no claim to deal with other things (such as multiple bibliographies or indexes, or lists of terminology, etc.), which AutoLaTeX can be configured to process. <p/>The <a href="FAQ-texinfo.html"><i>texinfo</i> system</a> comes with a similar -utility called <i>texi2dvi</i>, which is capable of “converting” +utility called <i>texi2dvi</i>, which is capable of “converting” either LaTeX or <i>texinfo</i> files into DVI (or into PDF, using PDFTeX). <p/>A later contribution is the bundle <i>latexmake</i>, which offers a set of <i>make</i> rules that invoke <i>texi2dvi</i> as necessary. <p/>The curious may examine the rules employed to run the present -FAQ through LaTeX: we don’t present them as a complete +FAQ through LaTeX: we don’t present them as a complete solution, but some of the tricks employed are surely re-usable. <dl> <dt><tt><i>AutoLaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/autolatex.zip">support/autolatex</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/autolatex/">browse the directory</a>) |