Re: [Axiom-developer] build-improvements and latex

[Ralf Hemmecke]

On 11/07/2006 11:17 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> > I oppose against special treatment of .sty files.
> >
> > The general rule should be
> >
> > notangle file.ext.pamphlet > file.ext
> > noweave  file.ext.pamphlet > file.ext.pamphlet.tex
> >
> > remove ".pamphlet" and add ".tex". That rule seems to be a bit simpler 
> > than having to explain why .sty files must be treated separately.
>
> Well, .sty files _are_ special (normal files do not contain "self
> references").  And if you think about rule:
>
> notangle file.ext.pamphlet > file.ext
>
> this _is_ alredy broken by many files (in 'src/hyper') when we
> have
>
> file.pamphlet -> file.c
>
> or
>
>                /-> file.h
> file.pamphlet -|
>                \-> file.c
>
> I agree that you proposal is logical, but it is also clumsy: .pamphlet
> extension is already pretty long and sticking on it another extension
> will give very long files names.

First. Why do you care about length of _generated_ filenames? You'll 
almost never see or touch them.

Second. With srcltx and inverse search, you _never_ have to type 
anything else than the command to start your dvi viewer with the right 
.dvi file. Everything else you read in the .dvi file, click there and 
magically your editor opens the right file at exactly the right place. I 
cannot imagine why you don't want that.

Third. I perhaps agree that just removing ".pamphlet" is not the best 
idea in general as you showed for pamphlets that contain .h and .c 
files. But note that then the corresponding Makefile must be more 
complex, since some logic of the .pamphlet file (namely that 
file.pamphlet contains file.h and file.c) is maintained externally to 
the .pamphlet.

Still, I would rather like to see a general scheme than just adjusting 
locally. Keep the rules simple (or rather: introduce simple rules).

One suggestion could be to have particular chunk names that say what are 
the "top-level" chunks and which are the corresponding filenames for 
notangle. (I explicitly say notangle, since I still want to see my 
suggestion of adding ".tex" to obtain ".pamphlet.tex" for noweave.)

Ralf