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Re: pdf docs? new tarball?
Alexey Goldin <goldin@flight.uchicago.edu> writes:
> On my system (debian potato with tetex and makeinfo installed) I can
> generate pdf docs just by typing
>
>
> texi2dvi -p gsl-ref.texi
>
> which is using pdftex instead of tex.
>
> Unfortunately it does not include eps pictures. PDFtex and PDF latex
> include pdf files, which can be prepared by epstopdf.
>
> If I figure out how to include .pdf images, I might submit some
> patches to gsl-ref.texi to generate pdf from it. An advantage compared
> to PDF from ps is that you can have nice clickable table of content,
> references and hot URL links.
pdftex also does not want to process files like
rand-gaussian-tail.tex, which is essentially postscript embedded in
tex. Is it possible to move this picture to .eps?