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Re: [DOCPATCH] 3.3, make the GPL fix nicely into a few pages
On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Simon Law wrote:
> > Is this fix one that is generally useful for whatever paper size someone
> > might build the manual with, or one specific to @smallbook that should be
> > conditioned on FSFPRINT?
>
> This is generally useful for any papersize greater or equal to
> @smallbook. It may be rather unnecessary, but it harmless.
Surely if a small change in page length is correct with @smallbook, for
any slightly smaller size it will no longer suffice and for any greater
size it will be unnecessary?
> > and should be applied. Some changes - e.g. rewording to avoid overfull or
> > underfull hboxes with some particular paper size - are only really
> > appropriate to apply where the paper size in question is that used for
> > printing the FSF-published manuals. When it gets down to fiddling with
>
> Well, I suspect that other people will also print out copies of
> manual themselves. This is, after all, Free Documentation.
We can't really practicably reword to avoid any infelicities with any
paper size Texinfo supports.
> When the GPL v3 comes out, I suspect that GCC will just suck in
> the newest gpl.texi from GNU, no?
No, the local changes to support manpage generation mean that the changes
in the new gpl.texi will need to be merged in, keeping the local changes
for manpage generation but not any that are specific to the precise length
of sections of GPLv2.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk