Subject: Re: bug#14799: Request for building PDF manuals in A4 format

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:48:24 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:29:15 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Why is it a virtue to avoid new Makefile targets?
> 
> It seems like a combinatorial explosion of rules.
> bovine-a4-odd-page-open/bovine-letter-odd-page-open/bovine-a4-non-odd-page-open/bovine-letter-non-odd-page-open etc.

Did anyone ask for all those additional options?

And you can always make the addition targets just set a value of a
Make variable, which will then be picked up by -t.

Anyway, just an idea.  If no one likes it, I'm okay.