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Date:      Sun, 15 Dec 2002 19:25:16 +0000
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Joseph King <king@v2project.com>, doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: issues with fdp-primer book
Message-ID:  <20021215192516.GC3902@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021215001826.GA5083@gothmog.gr>
References:  <20021212233646.GA44211@v2project.com> <20021213080259.GA49067@v2project.com> <20021215001826.GA5083@gothmog.gr>

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On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 02:18:26AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2002-12-13 09:02, Joseph King <king@v2project.com> wrote:
> > Ok, forget the jadetext issue, i follow the quickstart method that give
> > the execution of "make JADETEX=no" for the docproc environment,
> >
> > this method not say that pdf output are not possible without jadetex
> > package, will be good a short description explain this issue because
> > quick method its the firts thing that a impatient reader tend to look
> > for starting to write a doc.
> > i think.
> 
> Perhaps a note like this?  Something like this should be enough to
> avoid foot shooting, when picking JADETEX=no.

The FDP Primer does actually say that JADETEX=no will render you unable to
build the PDF format already:

See the Optional Tools section.
However, I agree that perhaps this could be mentioned elsewhere.

Ceri
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