Re: new-document and doc-processing menu behavior

Markus Hoenicka <[email protected]> writes:

> Michael Smith writes:
>  > But AFAICT, there is currently no way, from the command line, of
>  > having the RefDB command-line toolchain create a Makefile for an
>  > existing document. Seems like what's needed is a "new Makefile" script
>  > -- 'refdbnm' or whatever.
>  > 
> 
> It shouldn't be too hard to add a command-line switch to refdbnd that
> suppresses the creation of the skeleton document. This way you could
> create a Makefile for an existing document.

That makes sense. As I mentioned, I think also you might need to add
some logic for asking whether the existing doc uses short or full
notations, since there's not guarantee that the user has followed the
'*.short.*' convention that the current generated Makefiles expect for
short-notation documents.

  --Mike

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