• Added standard variables PAPER_INCLUDE_PATH and LATEX_INIT_FILE and rewrote all LaTeX-generating XSLT calls to use these. ...

• Revised passing of XSLT parameters to remove arbitrary limit on number of parameters.
• Synced up debug variables across different make include files.
• Fixed some raw calls to various commands.

• Removed unnecessary white space.

• Switched to rsync for deploying files, as I started getting “fchmod” errors when using cp to copy to the SMB share. Not sure why it used to work before, as it appears to be a consequence of the remote file system not supporting Unix-style file permissions. (Not due to different versions of SMB, as it was working with the same version one day, then not the next, and there were no intervening updates. Weird)

Removed now obsolete CVS substitutions.

Fixed file permissions.

- Fixed typo.

- Switched to new deployment approach (shared folder on server).

- Enforced appropriate prerequisites for install targets.

- Revamped install targets (getting closer).

- Switched to new Blackboard deployment method (preliminary, may be buggy).

- The Mother of All Commits! ...

- Updated build system to use the new ./configure based local configuration.

- Added sort command to finds.

- Changed "Sections" to "sections" to match the folder names in CVS.

- Added check to ensure that the patterns files exist. ...

- Updated default patterns files to match current usage.

- Fixed incorrect variable in answer-pdfs rule.

- Fixed error handling for recursive makes.

- Revamped the install mechanism to only install files that are actually ...

newer than the files on the server.
- Ensured that target install directories are created if they don't
  already exist.

- Added extra conditionals to "install" target.

- Added install targets. ...

- Now includes paper variables include file.
- Added conditionals to clean targets to check whether the "clean lists"
  are empty.

- Added include and template files for new handbook infrastructure.