• 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.

Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/Otago-InfoSci-Database/Handbook

• Added first cut at PlantUML rules.

• Added initial rules for generating images from PlantUML source.

• Added PlantUML to local configuration.

• Added documentation on how to roll calendar stuff over each year. ...

• Rewrote script to generate individual lecture dates for LaTeX, so that I don’t need to comment and un-comment different parts of the configuration for each paper.

• Switched to rsvg-convert from Inkscape, as Inkscape has become horribly slow (too many fonts, perhaps?). rsvg-convert comes with librsvg.

• Added tr to miscellaneous required utilities.

• Added ability to install questions and answers independently.

• Added NOSYNC variable to support installation without sitecopy synchronisation.

• Removed unnecessary white space.

• Ensured that all notes targets are dependent on figures (if present).

• Added --ignore-missing-args to rsync call for images, as there may not be any!

• 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)

• Added rsync to required tools.

• Ensured that IMGDIR can be overridden. ...

• Added IMGDIR to debug output.

• Changed default for PAPER_YEAR to current year.

• Removed paper year from paper-include-path value, as not everyone will have their paper trees organised by year. Safer to assume that the paper root directory exists at the top level of $(ALL_PAPERS_ROOT); use symlinks to achieve this if not.

• Added paper-include-path stylesheet parameter to (Xe)LaTeX rules.

• Removed obsolete LATEX_OPTS variable.

• Removed now-obsolete LaTeX option variables for font and paper size; these have been replaced by explicit LaTeX options embedded within the XML document itself.

• Removed now-obsolete LaTeX option variables; these have been replaced by explicit LaTeX options embedded within the XML document itself.

• Replaced obsolete LATEX_OPTS variable with hard-coded default options for now (I don’t remember ever providing custom options for the handbook anyway).

• Removed now-obsolete LaTeX option variables; these have been replaced by explicit LaTeX options embedded within the XML document itself.

Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/Otago-InfoSci-Database/Handbook

• Updated documentation.

• Suddenly autoreconf requires the include directory to be explicitly specified with -I. Whuh?

• Added explicit GNU cp, as the --update flag is useful for only copying files when needed.

• Added use of lockfile to ensure that there aren’t multiple copies of sitecopy trying to write to the site state file at once. I’m not convinced that this is actually necessary as there should only ever be one instance running at a time, but corruption of the site state file seems to be more common than it should be. We can always remove it again if it doesn’t help.

• Moved output file specification section to end so that it can use environment variables in the path. (This is also the recommended location for this anyway.)