Re: [docbook-apps] command line param to keep FO file in PDF output?

[Tony Graham <tgraham@antenna.co.jp>]

On 04/03/2021 04:33, Mark Giffin wrote:
> It's starting to come back to me. I think that the default when
> creating a PDF with DocBook XSL is for the FO file to remain there on
> the drive unmolested. So I think I need to point a finger at my
> makefiles. Sorry to be a bother.

Since you are using Make, run the rule to make the FO file once so that
there is an intermediate FO file there when Make next runs.

Make will automatically delete intermediate files that weren't there
when it started, but will preserve updated intermediate files that were
already there:

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Chained-Rules.html

Regards,


Tony Graham.
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