Re: Gforth manual PDF?

Buzz McCool <buzz_mccool@yahoo.com> writes:

On 2/15/25 03:33, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

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Gforth is using texinfo, so you can generate pdf, info and ps.
(like ciforth).

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On 2/15/25 09:53, Anton Ertl wrote:

Gforth offers Info, HTML, PDF, Postscript, and plain text.

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I've been using a package manager to grab Gforth and should have known
to check the tarball.
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I don't see a PDF in the ./doc folder, but I can make it from the
PostScript file.

We only put generated files in the tarball that you cannot easily
regenerate yourself (i.e., with the usually-available tools).  For
regenerating the pdf file, you need to have texinfo installed; maybe
we should be distributing the pdf in the tarball.  I have now changed
the Makefile to include the .pdf rather than the .ps files in the
tarball, reflecting the loss of popularity of the .ps format.

I could have also installed the gforth-pdf package which I was
previously unaware of:
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$ sudo apt install gforth-pdf

I am also unaware of that package.  Where does it come from?

- anton
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