[tex-live] Bug#425085: texlive-doc-en: catalogue entries with dangling links

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Fri Jun 22 00:48:28 CEST 2007


karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:

>     since it is a one-time exercise, 
>
> I don't understand.  Any massaging process will be rerun a zillion
> times, since of course the Catalogue is being updated constantly.  (Not
> that I have any objection to Elisp myself.)

But it is going to be run by people maintaining TeXlive, not people
fetching TeXlive.  Similar to ls-R regeneration, I would guess.

Could probably be rewritten at some time in Lua, but Lua seems less
convenient for in-place text manipulation.  And I know I'll be faster
with prototyping in Elisp.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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