> 1. I don't like setting the environment variable to point to the build
> tree. I would expect us to be setting it to something in the installed tree
> just like everything else.
Me neither. This abnormality hadn't sunk in until I actually came to
try it. Installation would need to be early in "make world".
> 2. SUN/95 has some weirdnesses. See eg WCSADD section with long examples.
> Section 4.5 has failed because of the escaped square brackets.
Unfortunately, I didn't get that far. Using Sarah's modern texlive
installation across the network failed to find some required packages.
When Henry returns I'm going to ask if we can have a modern texlive
installed on our building systems instead of the 2007 edition shipped
with CentOS 6.
> I'm not really a fan of HTML that constrains the width of the view
> (one of the advantages of HTML over PDF is that it can reflow text as
> you change your browser size...).
Well some us see that as a disadvantage. Those very wide lines are
dreadful to read. I find a regular page width much easier to digest.
Will people have browser windows narrow than that?
> tex2ht is incredibly fast though. Absolutely amazed me how fast SUN/95
> built.
In the Vax era it used to take an hour or two when it was only 400
pages. It never ceases to amaze that a 700-page manual only takes
seconds now to build.
Malcolm
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