Bug#660298: Debian Reference --- adding pdf support apparently now possible?

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 08:58:43PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + patch
> 
> 
> Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/
> > > 
> > > I don't think there is a copy of the Debian Reference in PDF or
> > > one-page HTML formats, if you would like to have those, please report
> > > a bug about it against the debian-reference package.
> > 
> > There is a bugreport on this already:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660298
> 
> I have played around a bit with pdf support for Debian Reference, and it
> seems as if the involved tools have been improved significantly in the last
> years, since I managed to get valid pdfs built for all languages without
> big changings (except Portuguese, but that fails when building html variant 
> too, because of syntax errors in po files.
> 
> Tables are now integrated (Osamu wrote, there is some problems with tables,
> but I cannot see any such problems now).

I have not tested it recently.  Your patch seems reasonable one.

I just got sick of fixing issues with dblatex back then and nev er
looked back.  I do know dblatex has been active again recently.

> So, it looks to me, as adding pdf support could be possible :-)

Thanks for remoinder

> Osamu, I have prepared a patch for this, could you take a look?
> (The only required changes were the selection of fonts for the different
> languages, the rest worked out of the box.)

You only did debuild or similar to fix hard part ... so this is missing
install support which is trivial ;-)  Hmmm... few dependency too...

Let me think a bit ..