hgbook build

Dongsheng Song dongsheng.song at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 03:24:28 CDT 2011


On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 15:35, Faheem Mitha <faheem at email.unc.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Dongsheng Song wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> @Faheem, I'm dislike bind to Debian or any other specific Linux
>> distribution.
>
> Dongsheng,
>
> I don't think having to download a bunch of unnecessary stuff is an
> improvement. Also, Debian is a pretty standard target these days. I'm
> obviously not suggesting building exclusively for Debian.
>
> Perhaps consider using some other tool like dblatex. Personally I'd rather
> deal with a TeX based toolchain than this Java/FOP stuff.
>
>> @Bryan, TortoiseHG bundle have 'Mercurial - The Definitive Guide (PDF)' ,
>> which build by fop 0.95 and my style-sheet in the hgbook repository.
>> I do not found any bad display manner.  (PS: The book build by THG team,
>> not me)
>
> True. The hgbook built by FOP etc looks Ok. The one built by dblatex also
> looks Ok. There are some minor differences.
>
>                                                          Regards, Faheem
>

So you can add an alternative make target like dblatex.


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