Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The later is not so clear to me -- the distinction is blurred
a bit, but I tend to agree than not. How does one feel about a LaTeX
package that sets up a default output style, and the user prefers a
different one? If there is a way to
Hi all!
Short comment from TeX live side, out of St. Moritz before leaving to
mountains:
On Fre, 21 Jul 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
- files that can be used to modify the behavior of programs, and/or
files that make sense to customize site-wide behavior on a multiuser
system (I just
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:12:46 +0200, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I've come across at least one example where it is:
\ProvidesFile{listings.cfg}[2004/09/05 1.3 listings configuration]
\def\lstlanguagefiles
{lstlang0.sty,lstlang1.sty,lstlang2.sty,lstlang3.sty}
If you have
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:54:50 +0200, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Indeed, the TeX Policy needs rewording, and this particular file
should be a conffile, because it affects how the TeX programs and
helper scripts act. In general, files that
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 18:12 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
foo.tex (or foo.sty in most cases) is indeed a library equivalent, but
we are rather discussing whether an additional foo.cfg or foo.whatever
that is loaded by foo.sty is a configuration file or not.
I've come across at least one
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What does this imply? Why are configuration files (I am
assuming that something called mktex.cnf is actually a configuration
file) being installed in /usr/share/?
I didn't notice that this was Cc'ed to -devel, and already answered to
Manoj,
severity 379089 serious
thanks
Hi,
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:57:20 +0200, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Because of this paragraph from the TeX Policy Draft:
, 4.1 Configuration files
| In a TeX system, in principle every TeX input file can be changed to
| change the behavior of the
Le 21 juil. 06 à 18:23, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
While it is true any file can be changed to change behaviour
for TeX (like things can be changed in /usr/include/foo.h to change
behaviour of a -dev package), any file with a name *.cnf is meant to
be a configuration file, and must,
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
severity 379089 serious
thanks
While it is true any file can be changed to change behaviour
for TeX (like things can be changed in /usr/include/foo.h to change
behaviour of a -dev package), any file with a name *.cnf is meant to
be a
Re: Frank Küster 2006-07-21 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I believe that we need to rephrase the TeX Policy. But this requires
not just to specifiy that each cfg file must be in /etc. Instead, I
think we need to find a distinction between
- files that can be used to modify the behavior of programs,
On 21-Jul-06, 13:41 (CDT), Jean-Christophe Dubacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The way I see it, the /usr/share/texmf/mktex.cnf is a default value
file, used in the setup of the whole texmf hierarchy; the
configuration is /etc/texmf/mktex.cnf, which, per web2c magic,
overrides the default
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:41:38 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Le 21 juil. 06 à 18:23, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
While it is true any file can be changed to change behaviour for
TeX (like things can be changed in /usr/include/foo.h to change
behaviour of a -dev
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 21-Jul-06, 13:41 (CDT), Jean-Christophe Dubacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The way I see it, the /usr/share/texmf/mktex.cnf is a default value
file, used in the setup of the whole texmf hierarchy; the
configuration is /etc/texmf/mktex.cnf, which,
Christoph Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re: Frank Küster 2006-07-21 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I believe that we need to rephrase the TeX Policy. But this requires
not just to specifiy that each cfg file must be in /etc. Instead, I
think we need to find a distinction between
- files that can be
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The difference here is that if you follow this path, ad
eschew the conffile mechanism, it is up to you to provide the benefit
to users that conffile mechanisms provide: namely, the user is
informde when the maintainer changes default
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:54:50 +0200, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 21-Jul-06, 13:41 (CDT), Jean-Christophe Dubacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The way I see it, the /usr/share/texmf/mktex.cnf is a default
value file, used in the setup of the
Hi,
Today, when upgrading my unstable box, I got a debconf message
from the package tex-common, to wit:
“The mechanism of TeX font caching has changed, requiring the
installation of /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf. On your
system, /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf
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