Re: Offering to fill a hole in the GNOME documentation.

[Timothy Murphy <tim maths tcd ie>]

On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:07:37PM -0400, David C. Mason wrote:

> > Incidentally, the TeX version of gnome-faq
> > is neither a TeX nor a LaTeX file.
> > (It appears to be a subset of a TeX file.)
> 
> Again, I can't help you with this, although I believe they are using
> SGML with the DocBook DTD like we are and the TeX it makes to create
> PostScript is very unreadable. That does not mean it does not make
> good output, it just means they do not use TeX to make the file and
> neither should you if you want to help them out.

I was not trying to help anyone out except myself.
I simply wanted to print out the FAQ for my own use.
It isn't a question of whether the TeX file is readable or not.
A file called gnome-faq.tex should be processable
either by "tex gnome-faq.tex" or "latex gnome-faq.tex"
and neither worked with this file.

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