On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 02:25:25PM +1200, Tom Eastman wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:20, Branko ??ibej wrote:
> > >I have a repository with many .tex files which are used to generate
> > > .pdf's. What I would like is to be able to keep the latest, and only the
> > > latest, version of the pdf in the repository so that it can be accessed
> > > easily. If someone wants an older version of the file, they can checkout
> > > the appropriate .tex source files and compile them directly.
> > >
> > >Is this possible?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > Why would you want to stored generated files in the repository, anyway?
> > You can put them on a shared filesystem somewhere.
>
> That was my fallback option. I wanted the pdf's in the repository so that
> they can be accessed directly off the apache server (via a browser) by
> someone who neither wanted to deal with the .tex files or use subversion to
> access them.
>
You could add a commit hook that generated the PDFs into a public
directory. You could even force the TeX to be syntactically correct,
since you could look at the exit code of the typesetting processes.
--ben
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Received on Mon Mar 31 19:35:05 2003