Re: [HACKERS] building pdfs

2014-07-28 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan writes: > On 07/27/2014 11:28 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Personally I find the PDF docs to be an anachronism: surely nobody >> is printing them on dead trees any more, and for on-computer usage, >> what do they offer that the HTML format doesn't? So I'm unexcited >> about making them s

Re: [HACKERS] building pdfs

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 07/27/2014 11:28 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Personally I find the PDF docs to be an anachronism: surely nobody is printing them on dead trees any more, and for on-computer usage, what do they offer that the HTML format doesn't? So I'm unexcited about making them slightly prettier.

Re: [HACKERS] building pdfs

2014-07-27 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan writes: > On 07/26/2014 06:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Andrew Dunstan writes: >>> Yes, I did that and generated a PDF, but I got an enormous number of >>> errors or warnings. See >>> for example. >> If they're things like "

Re: [HACKERS] building pdfs

2014-07-26 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 07/26/2014 06:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan writes: Yes, I did that and generated a PDF, but I got an enormous number of errors or warnings. See for example. If they're things like "overfull hbox" from the TeX step, they'r

Re: [HACKERS] building pdfs

2014-07-26 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan writes: > Yes, I did that and generated a PDF, but I got an enormous number of > errors or warnings. See > for example. If they're things like "overfull hbox" from the TeX step, they're expected.

Re: [HACKERS] building pdfs

2014-07-26 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 07/26/2014 02:22 PM, Andres Freund wrote: On 2014-07-26 14:14:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan writes: Is there any standard set of packages on any supported platform that will allow for building the doc PDFs? So far I have not found one on either Fedora 20 or Ubuntu 14.04, but may

Re: [HACKERS] building pdfs

2014-07-26 Thread Andres Freund
On 2014-07-26 14:14:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan writes: > > Is there any standard set of packages on any supported platform that > > will allow for building the doc PDFs? So far I have not found one on > > either Fedora 20 or Ubuntu 14.04, but maybe I'm missing something. > > On

Re: [HACKERS] building pdfs

2014-07-26 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan writes: > Is there any standard set of packages on any supported platform that > will allow for building the doc PDFs? So far I have not found one on > either Fedora 20 or Ubuntu 14.04, but maybe I'm missing something. On either Fedora or RHEL, installing the "authoring tools" pa

[HACKERS] building pdfs

2014-07-26 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Is there any standard set of packages on any supported platform that will allow for building the doc PDFs? So far I have not found one on either Fedora 20 or Ubuntu 14.04, but maybe I'm missing something. I am looking at adding a buildfarm facility to build the docs, but I'm not prepared to m