--- a/doc/ChangeLog	Tue Mar 21 19:46:19 2006 +0000
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog	Tue Mar 21 21:53:56 2006 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2006-03-21  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* interpreter/sparse.txi: Temporarily omit figures.
+	* interpreter/Makefile.in: Temporarily omit actions for making figures.
+
+	* interpreter/Makefile.in (real-pdf): Depend on stamp-eps
+	(stamp-pdf): Depend on real-pdf.  Touch stamp-pdf here.
+	(real-pdf): Not here.
+
 2006-03-16  David Bateman  <dbateman@free.fr>
 
 	* interpreter/images/sparseimages.m: set terminal type to dummy to

--- a/doc/interpreter/Makefile.in	Tue Mar 21 19:46:19 2006 +0000
+++ b/doc/interpreter/Makefile.in	Tue Mar 21 21:53:56 2006 +0000
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
 MAN_BASE := mkoctfile octave octave-bug octave-config
 MAN_SRC := $(addsuffix .1, $(MAN_BASE))
 
+# XXX FIXME XXX -- need to include generated figures here...
 DISTFILES = Makefile.in dir munge-texi.cc $(MAN_SRC) \
   $(SOURCES) $(TEXINFO) $(FORMATTED)
 
@@ -119,26 +120,25 @@
 .PHONY: check
 
 stamp-png:
-	make -C $(IMAGEDIR) png
+##	make -C $(IMAGEDIR) png
 	touch $@
 
 stamp-eps:
-	make -C $(IMAGEDIR) eps
+##	make -C $(IMAGEDIR) eps
+	touch $@
+
+stamp-pdf: real-pdf
 	touch $@
 
-stamp-pdf: stamp-eps
-	make -C ./ real-pdf
-
-real-pdf:
-	for F in $(wildcard *.eps); do \
-	  G=`basename $$F .eps`.pdf; \
-	  gs -dBATCH -dEPSCrop -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
-	    -sOutputFile=$$G $$F; \
-	done
-	touch $@
+real-pdf: stamp-eps
+##	for F in $(wildcard *.eps); do \
+##	  G=`basename $$F .eps`.pdf; \
+##	  gs -dBATCH -dEPSCrop -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
+##	    -sOutputFile=$$G $$F; \
+##	done
 
 stamp-txt:
-	make -C $(IMAGEDIR) txt
+##	make -C $(IMAGEDIR) txt
 	touch $@
 
 install install-strip: all

--- a/doc/interpreter/sparse.txi	Tue Mar 21 19:46:19 2006 +0000
+++ b/doc/interpreter/sparse.txi	Tue Mar 21 21:53:56 2006 +0000
@@ -327,10 +327,11 @@
 sparse matrices. The first is the @dfn{spy} command, which displays
 the structure of the non-zero elements of the
 matrix. @xref{fig:spmatrix}, for an exaple of the use of
-@dfn{spy}.More advanced graphical information can be obtained with the
+@dfn{spy}.  More advanced graphical information can be obtained with the
 @dfn{treeplot}, @dfn{etreeplot} and @dfn{gplot} commands.
 
 @float Figure,fig:spmatrix
+@ifset INCLUDE_FIGURES
 @ifinfo
 @example
 @include spmatrix.txt
@@ -339,6 +340,7 @@
 @ifset htmltex
 @image{spmatrix,8cm}
 @end ifset
+@end ifest
 @caption{Structure of simple sparse matrix.}
 @end float
 
@@ -367,7 +369,9 @@
 @xref{fig:gplot}.
 
 @float Figure,fig:gplot
+@ifset INCLUDE_FIGURES
 @image{gplot,8cm}
+@end ifset
 @caption{Simple use of the @dfn{gplot} command.}
 @end float
 @end ifset
@@ -579,6 +583,7 @@
 positive definite matrix.
 
 @float Figure,fig:simplematrix
+@ifset INCLUDE_FIGURES
 @ifinfo
 @example
 @include spmatrix.txt
@@ -587,6 +592,7 @@
 @ifset htmltex
 @image{spmatrix,8cm}
 @end ifset
+@end ifset
 @caption{Structure of simple sparse matrix.}
 @end float
 
@@ -644,6 +650,7 @@
 @ifset HAVE_CHOLMOD
 @ifset HAVE_COLAMD
 @float Figure,fig:simplechol
+@ifset INCLUDE_FIGURES
 @ifinfo
 @example
 @include spchol.txt
@@ -652,10 +659,12 @@
 @ifset htmltex
 @image{spchol,8cm}
 @end ifset
+@end ifset
 @caption{Structure of the un-permuted Cholesky factorization of the above matrix.}
 @end float
 
 @float Figure,fig:simplecholperm
+@ifset INCLUDE_FIGURES
 @ifinfo
 @example
 @include spcholperm.txt
@@ -664,6 +673,7 @@
 @ifset htmltex
 @image{spcholperm,8cm}
 @end ifset
+@end ifset
 @caption{Structure of the permuted Cholesky factorization of the above matrix.}
 @end float
 @end ifset
@@ -1031,7 +1041,9 @@
 @ifset HAVE_UMFPACK
 @ifset HAVE_COLAMD
 @float Figure,fig:femmodel
+@ifset INCLUDE_FIGURES
 @image{grid,8cm}
+@end ifset
 @caption{Example finite element model the showing triangular elements. 
 The height of each vertex corresponds to the solution value.}
 @end float