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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-08-12 18:07:51 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-08-12 18:07:51 (GMT)
commit9f6f0da084789d36558ef1fcd4f19b1d7d6ea37e (patch)
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Improved some error messages for command line processing.
Added --all to produce all formats at once.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc')
-rwxr-xr-xDoc/tools/mkhowto.sh19
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkhowto.sh b/Doc/tools/mkhowto.sh
index 26deac9..69b9b4d 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkhowto.sh
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkhowto.sh
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Options specifying formats to build:
--dvi "DeVice Indepentent" format from TeX
--text ASCII text
- More than one output format may be specified.
+ More than one output format may be specified, or --all.
HTML options:
--address, -a Specify an address for page footers.
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ Other options:
(stderr is also lost, sorry; see *.how for errors)
EOF
+ if [ "$2" ] ; then
+ echo "$2"
+ echo
+ fi
exit $1
}
@@ -159,6 +163,15 @@ cleanup() {
# figure out what our targets are:
while [ "$1" ] ; do
case "$1" in
+ --all|--al)
+ BUILD_PDF=true
+ BUILD_PS=true
+ BUILD_DVI=true
+ BUILD_HTML=true
+ BUILD_TEXT=true
+ USE_DEFAULT_FORMAT=false
+ shift 1
+ ;;
--pdf|--pd)
BUILD_PDF=true
USE_DEFAULT_FORMAT=false
@@ -243,8 +256,10 @@ if [ $# = 0 ] ; then
COUNT=`ls -1 *.tex | wc -l | sed 's/[ ]//g'`
if [ "$COUNT" -eq 1 ] ; then
set -- `ls -1 *.tex`
+ elif [ "$COUNT" -gt 1 ] ; then
+ usage 2 "Could not deduce which file(s) to process as HOWTO documents."
else
- usage 2
+ usage 2 "No file to process."
fi
fi