[isabelle-dev] NEWS: session 'document_files'

[Makarius]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Tobias Nipkow wrote:

> What I sometimes need is to have the latex files generated but not 
> processed. Currently I achieve this with a dummy root.tex file that 
> includes nothing. Is there a less dummy way?

There is no need for root.tex and latex to produce a dummy root.pdf. 
This can be done more directly via some document/build script that merely 
does "touch root.pdf".  See the included example session.

That is functionality from the summer 2012 reform, and I am rather glad 
that the number of build options was successfully reduced, while it has 
become more general.

If there is a strong need for it, one could add some option to the 
"isabelle mkroot" tool to produce such a setup -- it presently uses only 2 
letters of the alphabet for options.


 	Makarius
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