From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Provide papersize for refcard.dvi
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 00:28:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250806222847.GZ2576@qaa.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ikj0s27w.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2025-08-06 22:02:27 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Doesn't PDF generation go through DVI?
No, nowadays, PDF is generated directly with pdfTeX.
Only PostScript is generated through DVI.
> And if it doesn't, then why should we care about DVI nowadays?
Because the file is generated and installed. In the Makefile file:
all-doc: info man dvi ps pdf html
> Anyway, I feel we should take this discussion to the Texinfo list,
> where we will find people who know about TeX and DVI much more than I
> do, and could give some useful advice.
I think that the Texinfo list is mainly about the Texinfo format
and generation from this format. refcard.tex is in plain TeX.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-06 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-06 14:53 Vincent Lefevre
2025-08-06 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-08-06 16:00 ` Vincent Lefevre
2025-08-06 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-08-06 16:47 ` Vincent Lefevre
2025-08-06 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-08-06 22:28 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2025-08-07 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-08-07 9:05 ` Vincent Lefevre
2025-08-07 9:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-08-08 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-08-08 17:25 ` Vincent Lefevre
2025-08-08 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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