GNU bug report logs - #14799
Request for building PDF manuals in A4 format

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Reported by: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it>

Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 08:12:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 14799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, angelo.g0 <at> libero.it
Subject: bug#14799: Request for building PDF manuals in A4 format
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:48:24 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: angelo.g0 <at> libero.it,  14799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:29:15 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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.
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