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Agreed. This sounds like the kind of thing I'd like to fill my Tuesday evening with, but had to refer to the instructions from the kind commenter below to inst

Agreed. This sounds like the kind of thing I'd like to fill my Tuesday evening with, but had to refer to the instructions from the kind commenter below to install packages to build the LaTeX file since my Texmaker refused point-blank to have anything to do with it. Of course it's Linux only, so means using WSL on my Windows laptop. Managed to open the file, no instructions whatsoever for finding a compiler other than 'get the GCC one'. Okay. Found the mirror, downloaded it and just now reading the installation manual. Yes, it's a manual, basically. Two dozen prerequisite packages to install by hand before I do anything else. It's guaranteed not to work on WSL so I'll have to spend an hour or two just getting a compiler up and running, that's assuming it works at all and I don't just have to fire up a Debian VM and start again. I get C is hard, and is supposed to be hard, but it's like GNU are going out of their way to make this intentionally more difficult than it needs to be.

I_dev_outdoors 4y ago
You are kinda getting of the beaten path here and you seem to know it.
maxlybbert 4y ago
I’m sure they’ll eventually make a PDF and HTML pages easily available on their site, like they have for plenty of other manuals. This announcement is more along the lines of “if you want to help us with the finishing touches, here’s where to go.”
Koshkin 4y ago
> C is hard, and is supposed to be hard I don't know why anyone would say that. C remains a simple little language. It is programming, especially the kind C is used for, that is hard.
- cies 4y ago
  Exactly. C was a lot easier than the alternatives back when it got invented. It's simplicity that characterizes a good design.
zauguin 4y ago
I don't know TeXmaker, but it's highly unlikely that you can't compile this with any normal TeX distribution. It's not a LaTeX file though, it's a TeXinfo file but since it includes the texinfo.tex file it shouldn't matter, you can run it like any plain TeX document. It uses texindex but that's included both in TeX Live and MikTeX, so you probably have it installed already. Just run on some kind of command line > pdftex c.texi > texindex c.cp > texindex c.fn > pdftex c.texi > pdftex c.texi

I_dev_outdoors 4y ago

You are kinda getting of the beaten path here and you seem to know it.

maxlybbert 4y ago

I’m sure they’ll eventually make a PDF and HTML pages easily available on their site, like they have for plenty of other manuals. This announcement is more along the lines of “if you want to help us with the finishing touches, here’s where to go.”

Koshkin 4y ago

> C is hard, and is supposed to be hard I don't know why anyone would say that. C remains a simple little language. It is programming, especially the kind C is used for, that is hard.

cies 4y ago
Exactly. C was a lot easier than the alternatives back when it got invented. It's simplicity that characterizes a good design.

zauguin 4y ago

I don't know TeXmaker, but it's highly unlikely that you can't compile this with any normal TeX distribution. It's not a LaTeX file though, it's a TeXinfo file but since it includes the texinfo.tex file it shouldn't matter, you can run it like any plain TeX document. It uses texindex but that's included both in TeX Live and MikTeX, so you probably have it installed already. Just run on some kind of command line > pdftex c.texi > texindex c.cp > texindex c.fn > pdftex c.texi > pdftex c.texi