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- .\" Linux Network Administrators' Guide
- .\" Compilation Guide
- .\"
- .\" Copyright 1994 O. Kirch
- .\"
- .\" ============================================================
- .\" This document requires the GNU mm macro package.
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- Building the Linux Network Administrators Guide
-
- Olaf Kirch
- .PH "'Networking Guide 1.0''Source Notes'
- .PF "''- % -''
- .sp 1c
- .\" ============================================================
- .H 1 "Introduction
- .\" ============================================================
- The Network Administrators' Guide (NAG) allows you to produce a couple
- of different output formats from the same source. Currently, the main
- supported targets are DVI, PostScript(TM), and GNU roff (using the mm
- macro package). You can select these different formats by invoking
- the \fBMakefile\fR with the appropriate target name.
- .P
- The NAG is intended to compile on as many TeX platforms as possible.
- To fine-tune its behavior, you have to adapt the main configuration
- file, \fBConfig.tex\fR. The options you can set in this file are
- described below.
- .P
- As I'm not a LaTeX guru, and as there are quite a number of different
- LaTeX version around, compiling the NAG may fail on your system.
- If this happens to you, I'd be glad to hear from you if and
- how you solved your problems, and incorporate your fixes in a future
- release.
-
- .\" ============================================================
- .H 1 "Different output formats
- .\" ============================================================
- The NAG can be compiled for three different output formats at
- the moment. These are
- .BVL 3n
- .LI DVI
- DVI is the generic LaTeX output format. This should be relatively
- painless on virtually all systems. But it isn't always, which is
- one of the reasons this installation guide is so long.
- .P
- To produce the DVI output,
- simply go to the source directory and type
- .P
- .VERBON
- make dvi
- .VERBOFF
- .P
- This should produce the file \fBnag.dvi\fR as output.
- .P
- There's a minor \fBcaveat\fR here:
- The NAG contains a couple of figures that were produced with the
- \fBxfig\fR drawing program, and converted to eepic for inclusion
- with the NAG. You have to have a working \fBepic.sty\fR and
- \fBeepic.sty\fR macro file for this. The source for the NAG
- contains these files in the \fBstyles/latex\fR directory. If these
- fail to work with your TeX installation, but you have a working pair
- of style files installed on your system, you may want to remove
- the included eepic style files. You can also find a set
- of eepic style files in the \fBtransfig\fR package.
- .P
- To print the DVI version, you will need a printer driver that understands
- the \fB\\special\fR instrutions generated by the eepic package. The
- drivers from Nelson Beebe's driver package should do. The latest
- version of \fBdvieps\fR I've seen (0.6) didn't have support for
- these \fB\\special\fRs. If you do use \fBdvieps\fR, you
- might want to print the document with it, and produce the pictures
- separately. One possible way to do this is to take the EPSF versions
- of them and print them with \fBghostscript\fR.
- .\" ============================================================
- .LI PostScript
- To generate PostScript output, the \fBMakefile\fR first builds a DVI
- version of the NAG, and converts it to PostScript afterwards using
- Tom Rokicki's \fBdvips\fR program. You will want to use \fBdvips\fR;
- I tried \fBdvitops\fR, but it didn't work out for me. You should
- also use a recent version of \fBdvips\fR, a version prior to 5.512
- I had didn't work right for me.
- .P
- The DVI version generated for PostScript output is
- \fBdifferent\fR from the version built when doing ordinary DVI
- output, as it uses the EPSF versions of the pictures instead.
- The EPSF versions look much better than the eepic versions.
- .P
- Normally, when converting DVI to PostScript, \fBdvips\fR includes
- font images of all fonts used in the DVI file in the resulting PS
- file. This greatly increases the size of the resulting output
- file, and makes it dependent on the resolution of the output device
- (300dpi by default). If you have a printer capable of PostScript, you
- may choose to have the output file use the real PostScript fonts
- instead of the cmr fonts. The exact requirements for this are
- discussed in a later paragraph.
- .P
- To build the PostScript version, you go to the source directory
- and type the following command:
- .P
- .VERBON
- make ps
- .VERBOFF
- .P
- This should produce the file \fBnag.ps\fR as output.
- .P
- .LI "GNU roff
- This output format isn't exactly the greatest thing since sliced
- bread, but it's included for the sake of those who don't have the
- disk space for a full TeX installation, and don't have access to
- PostScript laser printers. It allows you to produce an ASCII-only
- output of the NAG that doesn't look too bad. However, there are
- no figures in the roff version. Anyone with a faible for ASCII
- arts is invited to try his or her hand on this. I will gladly
- include the results in a future release.
- .P
- The TeX source has been converted to GNU roff using the
- \fBlotex\fR utility I wrote. The output uses the GNU version of
- the mm macro set. To format the roff source, you have to have
- \fBgroff\fR version 1.08 or later. To create the roff output and
- format it, go to the source directory and type:
- .P
- .VERBON
- make mm
- groff -t -mgm -Tlatin1 nag.mm | less
- .VERBOFF
- .P
- There is also a \fBMakefile\fR target that generates an `ASCII'
- version; this is basically the formatted roff version piped through
- \fBcolcrt\fR to get rid of all the character sequences used for
- highlighting and such. Note that some printers, like the HP Deskjet,
- will happily grok the backspacing sequences generated by \fBgroff\fR
- and produce real underlining and boldface text.
- .LE
- .\" ============================================================
- .H 1 "The Config.tex file
- .\" ============================================================
- The \fBConfig.tex\fR allows you to set a couple of options that
- fine-tune the compilation of the NAG. You set these options
- by defining special LaTeX macros like \fB\\footrue\fR, which sets
- the foo option, or \fB\\foofalse\fR, which unsets it.
- .P
- At the moment, the following are valid options (showing the default
- settings):
- .BVL 3n
- .LI \fB\E\latexetrue\fR
- If you run LaTeX2e, you must set this option to true. Otherwise,
- \fBlatex\fR will choke horribly when compilig the NAG. (Thanks go
- to Peter Williams for adapting \fBlinuxdoc.sty\fR for LaTeX2e).
- .P
- Be warned that setting this option may not be enough to make the NAG
- compile cleanly on your LaTeX setup. The dreary details are
- discussed in a separate section below.
- .LI \fB\E\ltxbeta\fR
- This is yet another option dealing with LaTeX2e. There are points in
- which the latest release of LaTeX2e apparently differs from the Beta
- version that has been included in Slackware for quite some time. The
- \fB\\ltxbeta\fR switch determines which of these version the NAG will
- attempt to take care of.
- .LI \fB\E\veryoldtexfalse\fR
- If you run a very old LaTeX installation, you should set this to
- true. It disables a macro (\fB\\namedlabel\fR) which \fBlatex\fR
- refused to grok on an installation I once tried it on.
- I'm not really familiar with LaTeX version numbers, but I guess
- anything prior to 1992 qualifies as old in this context.
- .LI \fB\E\squeezefale\fR
- Setting this option to true will reduce the size of the output
- file from about 350 pages to 250 pages. The document's appearance will
- suffer a bit, but it saves you ink and paper.
- .LI \fB\E\psfontsfalse\fR
- This option tells \fBlatex\fR whether to use PostScript or
- cmr font metrics whene generating the DVI output for the PostScript
- version. This option has no effect when compiling the NAG for
- DVI-only output. Again, setting this option may not be the only
- thing you have to do to get PS fonts. Please stay tuned...
- .LE
- .\" ============================================================
- .H 1 "Building the NAG with LaTeX2e
- .\" ============================================================
- There are a couple of things you should check before you can
- \fBlatex\fR the Networking Guide with LaTeX2e:
- .BL
- .LI
- In some versions of LaTeX2e,
- \fBreport.cls\fR (and several other cls files) have a bug in the
- definition of the makeindex option. There's a line
- that reads
- .P
- .VERBON
- \\newcommand\\see##1##2{...
- .VERBOFF
- .P
- This should actually read
- .P
- .VERBON
- \\def\\see##1##2{...
- .VERBOFF
- Note that this problem is likely to be gone in the latest version of
- LaTeX2e.
- .LI
- If \fBlatex\fR complains about not finding the \fBifthen.sty\fR package,
- you have to go to your \fB/usr/TeX/lib/texmf/tex/latex2e\fR directory,
- and run the following command:
- .P
- .VERBON
- latex l2eextra.ins
- .VERBOFF
- .P
- This unpacks a couple of extra packages, among them \fBifthen.sty\fR.
- The script asks you a couple of questions about fonts, which
- you can answer with yes (these questions apply to a couple of
- other packages, like cyrillic fonts, which the NAG doesn't use:-)
- .LI
- To use PostScript fonts with LaTeX2e, you may have to unpack
- yet another package. If building the NAG fails with error messages
- about not finding \fBpsfonts.sty\fR, or not finding fonts like
- \fBOT1pcr\fR, then you have to go to the
- \fB/usr/TeX/lib/texmf/tex/nfss2\fR directory
- and execute
- .P
- .VERBON
- latex psfonts.ins
- .VERBOFF
- .LE
- As a conclusion, let me vent my personal opinion on LaTeX2e. Although
- the discussion above may give you the impression that LaTeX2e is a load
- of crap and utterly broken, this is not true. After coming to terms with
- some of the new features, I was very pleased how well-behaved it is.
- The problems I've encountered (and which you will prossibly face, too)
- actually seem to be problems of Slackware. Slackware used to come with a
- Beta-testing version, which, in addition, didn't have all crucial files
- unpacked. I haven't checked Slackware 2.0, though, so your mileage may vary.
- .\" ============================================================
- .H 1 "PostScript Fonts with LaTeX 2.09 or earlier
- .\" ============================================================
- To use Postscript fonts with LaTeX version 2.09 or even older, you have to
- have two macro files from the psfonts package, being \fBpsfonts.sty\fR and
- \fBtimes.sty\fR. If you don't have them, get them from the latest release
- of Thomas Rokicki's \fBdvips\fR package.
-