caspar-typesetting(7)

caspar-typesetting7

caspar-typesetting - Makefile snippets for common typesetting tasks In a Makefile, write

  include caspar/mk/docbook.mk

    


    

or

  include caspar/mk/pod.mk

    


    

or

  include caspar/mk/markdown.mk

    


    

. The caspar docbook.mk, pod.mk and markdown.mk files are Makefile snippets for common typesetting tasks, like typesetting LaTeX (see [3]), DocBook XML, DocBook SGML (see [2]), POD (see [1]) and Markdown (see [4]) documents. You just have to type make, instead of stuff like jade -t tex -d caspar/print.dsl /usr/share/sgml/declaration/xml.dcl foobar.dbx. In a directory where you maintain .dbx (Docbook XML) or .tex (LaTeX) files, do

   $ echo include caspar/mk/docbook.mk > Makefile
   $ vi karenina.dbx
   $ make karenina.view
   $ make karenina.print
   $ vi svejk.tex
   $ make svejk.view
   $ make svejk.print
   $ make
   $ make clean

    


    

Other targets: filename.ps, filename.pdf, filename.2ps, filename.html, filename.printbig, filename.dvi.

Variables you might like to set in your Makefile: XMLDCL (default is /usr/share/sgml/declaration/xml.dcl; if you're not on a Debian GNU/Linux system, you'll likely have to adjust this), HTML_DSL, PRINT_DSL.

In a directory where you maintain .pod files, do

   $ echo include caspar/mk/pod.mk > Makefile
   $ vi lire.pod
   $ perldoc ./lire.pod
   $ make lire.pdf
   $ make
   $ less lire.overstrike-txt
   $ make clean

    


    

Other targets: filename.ps, filename.html, filename.txt, ... (Similar to the ones supplied by docbook.mk).

In a directory where you maintain CommonMark .md files, do

   $ echo include caspar/mk/markdown.mk > Makefile
   $ vi lire.md
   $ make lire.html
   $ make
   $ make clean

    


    

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Some examples: Overriding the caspar-supplied DSSSL files: Create your own print.dls and html.dsl, in the same directory as your Docbook XML files. Your Makefile should read:

 PRINT_DSL = print.dsl
 HTML_DSL = html.dsl
 include caspar/mk/docbook.mk

    


    

Overriding the standard html-to-text convertor:

 $ W3M=lynx make svejk.txt

    


    

. caspar/mk/docbook.mk, caspar/mk/pod.mk, caspar/mk/markdown.mk. For docbook.mk: files: XMLDCL, HTML_DSL, PRINT_DSL; utilities: JADE, PDFJADETEX, PDFLATEX, JADETEX, LATEX, W3M, DVIPS, PSNUP, LPR, GV; settings: JADE_MAXERRORS. These variables can get adjusted in Makefile, as well as in the shell environment.

The files pod.mk and markdown.mk use no environment variables. Joost van Baal-Ilić caspar(7) [1] perlpod(1) about Perl's Plain Old Documentation format

[2] DocBook: The Definitive Guide on http://docbook.org/,

[3] The LaTeX Project Homepage on http://www.latex-project.org/.

[4] John Gruber's Markdown homepage on https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/.

Some comments on advanced usage are in the files docbook.mk and pod.mk itself.

Releases

11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 8 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0–5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8–9
  6. 10
  7. 11
  8. 12
  9. 13

From caspar 20240818-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.