Re: new-document and doc-processing menu behavior

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > > I feel the best way to specify the style from the RefDB menu is to
 > > pass this as an argument to the make command.
 > 
 > Not following.
 > 
 > In any case, I think the ideal is to have some flexibility here.  If I 
 > create a document on a non-refdb system with some other xml editor, I 
 > want to be able to easily move it to my refdb box fire up emacs, and 
 > process the document without hassling with the command line.
 > 

I wouldn't mind having the menu code create a Makefile if there is
none as soon as you attempt to process a document. I am arguing
against modifying the Makefile each time you run this
command. Switching styles is easier by passing the style name as an
argument on the make command line. The Makefiles are specifically
designed to facilitate this. This is absolutely transparent to
the user and faster as you don't have to write the Makefile back to
disk.

regards,
Markus

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