maxima book generation



On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 14:15, Rex Dieter wrote:

> IMO, packagers shouldn't have to mess with this.  Either:
We did not necessarily intend for the packagers to have to mess with
this. Subsequent Maxima tarballs won't include the maximabook, so
packagers should feel less obliged to do so.

> 1.  maximabook.pdf should be pregenerated and either included in the 
> maxima tarball or be provided separately.

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/maximabook/maximabook-19-Sept-2004.pdf

It's a link off the Maxima "Docs" page.

> 2.  maximabook should be rewritten to not depend upon these questionably 
> licensed external (la)tex styles.

That might be a good idea anyway. I'm leaving it up to Cliff.

--Jim