Exporting form emacs texinfo-mode to dvi, pdf, and html

[lisa-asket]

In reality there is no valid reason not to use elisp.  Makefiles are just an 
obsession for some developers,

just as databases are for others.




From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Exporting form emacs texinfo-mode to dvi, pdf, and html
Date: 27/06/2021 07:07:14 Europe/Paris

lisa-asket wrote:

> I managed to get it to work actually. Why do you say it is
> already there ?

The GNU make and the Makefile system is

1) much better
2) already present

> You have to input the commands myself if I do not use the
> function I defined

Don't write Elisp instead of a Makefile. It is

1) argh
2) ...

Here is what the man page say for make(1):

The make utility will determine automatically which pieces of
a large program need to be recompiled, and issue the commands
to recompile them. The manual describes the GNU
implementation of make, which was written by Richard Stallman
and Roland McGrath, and is currently maintained by Paul
Smith. Our examples show C programs, since they are very
common, but you can use make with any programming language
whose compiler can be run with a shell command. In fact, make
is not limited to programs. You can use it to describe any
task where some files must be updated automatically from
others whenever the others change.

That's right! It is like automation automated.

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