> I would like to generate PDF files and they need to use type 1 fonts to be
> readable. The times package supplies Type 1 fonts.
>
> Is the times package installed with teTeX, if not what do I have to do to
> install it or is there another package I should be using for type 1 fonts?
Get teTeX-
> I'm failing to understand something about how fontimport works.
Well, the reason is that fontimport uses mktexnam (texmf/web2c/mktexnam)
to find the "right" texmf tree for the font. The "right" texmf tree is
the one where the sources (or other metrics) of the font can be found.
If no such texmf
> The mf sources for cbgreek fonts are in
> /usr/local/teTeX/texmf/fonts/source/public/cbgreek
> but the pkfonts are not copied to the right place.
Hm... yes... I can think of a reason for this. mktexnam finds the tfm
for the cbgreek fonts in the varfonts area and thinks that these fonts
bel
> I would like to use the type 1 fonts from Bluesky. After unpacking texmf I
> see that those font are there. How do I tell if they are being used? Right
> now, new pk fonts seem to be made every time I want to preview a document.
Just
texdoc TETEXDOC
and read the sections about type1 fo
> I'm trying very hard to install teTeX v1.0 on my Linux system.
> Whenver I'm building the program, texconfig gives me this error:
>
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/texconfig:
> /tmp/texconf6997/logfile: No such file or directory
>
> I see this line in the texconfig script:
> m
> I just found a file name ambiguity in teTeX-1.0:
>
> >find /usr/local/apps/teTex/ -name 'verbatim.sty' -print
> /usr/local/apps/teTex/share/texmf/tex/latex/tools/verbatim.sty
> /usr/local/apps/teTex/share/texmf/tex/generic/misc2/verbatim.sty
There is no "generic/misc2" directory in teTeX-1.0.
> Running mf to create plain base ...
> This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.1) (INIMF)
> /opt/bin.link/texconfig[3]: 11190 Memory fault(coredump)
> Done.
>
> Running mpost to create plain mem ...
> This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.1) (INIMP)
> /opt/bin.link/texconfig[3]: 11194 M
> One other thing I noticed, is strangs solvable make problem.
> When you follow the quick install note for multi architecture platforms.
> for HP ( I am using the Gnu make );
> ./configure
> make world
> then on Sun
> make distclean
> ./configure
> make all
> make install-exec
>
> This gives me
> using teTeX 1.0 I have set the varibale $VARTEXFONTS
> to collect the fonts there. This works fine for
> mktexpk, but not for mktextfm. In the latter case
> the .tfm as well as the .pk files end up in the current
> directory. Why?
This is a feature. If some user has his private metafont so
> you are right that this happens for private .mf files.
> But in the case that I cannot put my .mf files in the
> system tree as a ordinary user it would be nice to be
> able to create the .tfm and .pk files in a certain
> directory (not necessarily the working directory; may
> be in the u
> ich habe meine Webseite ueber teTeX fuer NEXTSTEP auf unseren neuen Webserver
> umgestellt, die Seite ist jetzt wieder unter der alten Adresse online.
Thanks, Gregor. For those people on this list, who don't know what we
are talking about: the web page about with lots of useful information
abou
> or is there a better way to do these type of
> tasks?
Maybe... Someday... Not in the near future.
Thomas
> So why did the installation put the binaries on bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu,
> if
> teTeX cannot handle directories with such a name???
It works for me. How does your PATH look like? How does the TEXMFMAIN
definition in texmf.cnf looks like?
Can you please
env KPATHSEA_DEBUG=4 kpsewhich -expand-va
> On compiling teTeX 1.0.7 on Sun Solaris 2.5 + gcc 2.95
That compiler is known to produce wrong code. Better avoid gcc 2.95 and
gcc 2.95.1 (2.95.2 is ok).
> ld: fatal: file /usr/local/lib/libXt.a: unknown type, unable to process using
>elf(3E) libraries
..
> I have checked the files libX11.a &
> In the debian distribution of tetex, all dvi files for packages are compressed
> with gzip. It seems that the tools like texdoc, pksewhich and friends fail
> becuase of that. Are there any plans to make them recognize compressed files ?
Well, this feature can easily be added and I might do that
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=texdoc.patch
Interesting, but IMHO texdoc should do the decompression and not assume
that the viewer does this. ghostview doesn't. acroread dosn't (compressing
pdf does not make sense, but one can never be sure what people do).
> Content-Disposition: a
> > > Attached patch works with those lines in texmf.cnf:
> > > TEXDOCSSUFFIX = :.dvi:.ps:.html:.txt
> > > TEXDOCSCOMPRESS = :.gz:.bz2:.zip:.Z
> > > TEXDOCEXT = {$TEXDOCSSUFFIX}{$TEXDOCSCOMPRESS}
texmf.cnf should not be abused as general-purpose info system. Several
things which used to
> modifications: on Win/UNIX, end of lines are different, so files
> shipped on these platforms are different too. Does this break copyright?
I don't consider "correcting" end-of-line markers a modification of
a file. It is the correct representation of the file for a given OS.
I don't know how a
> Did this ever get answered? If so I missed it.
I did not answer yet. I am quite busy...
> I just compiled teTeX-1.0.7 and noticed that it installs files under
> $TEXMF/web2c, that are also installed by teTeX-texmf-1.0.1.
The reason is that teTeX-texmf-1.0.1 must be complete enough to work
wi
> places, I can see where you may want that, but that there might be a
> difference between the two versions making it important which one was
>From time to time (esp. before releases), I make a backup copy of the
texmf tree and do a "make install" from the sources tree. Then, I check
all diffe
Hi,
I have updated the stable version of teTeX:
- the sources are updated from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7
- the texmf area is updated from 1.0 to 1.0.1
The 1.0.7 sources are mainly the same as the 1.0.6 sources; changes
affect a few scripts and files that get installed into the texmf tree.
The 1.0.1 te
> we're using tetex 1.0.9 on a Solaris 2.6 OS. One of the users wishes to modify
Hey, where did you get this? I don't know anything of a 1.0.9 version.
> the value of the TEXMFCNF variable, to import his own texmf.cnf file.
Set TEXMFCNF to the *directory* that the texmf.cnf file is in, not to
> Running mf to create plain base ...
> Bus Error
> Done.
>
> Running mpost to create plain mem ...
> Bus Error
> Done.
This problem (gcc-2.95 and 2.95.1 on sparc-solaris) is mentioned in the
PROBLEMS file in both: the latest stable and the latest beta version
of teTeX.
Thomas
> This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2000.02.27:2327' -> report.ps
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+57/600 --dpi 657 ph
> vb8r
I guess that dvips does not find the right psfonts.map file. Use find
to locate a
Hi Staszek et. al.,
> It is still not clear what can be changed in the local/user
> configuration. For example, teTeX 1.0.7 texconfig do not make a copy of
> texmf.cnf to the $VARTEXMF (if it was set, and as it was in previous
> versions).
This only makes sense, if you compile kpathsea with $VAR
> The last one variable is rather not for ``where pdftex finds included
> figures files!'', I'm rather sure that nobody put his figures here ;-),
> but is _very important for finding first_ texmf/pdftex/config/psfonts.map
> (which, in turn, can be different from texmf/dvips/config/psfonts.map).
> >> > kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode cx --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+0/8000
> >> > --dpi 8000 telefon
...
Just don't use -Ppdf and better "just" use -Pwww. The 8000dpi "trick" to
improve the quality of the pdf file does not work as long as bitmap fonts
are involved (these will look bad in the r
> > /local/apps7/teTeX/bin/fmtutil: 11352 Memory fault: A memory image file is
> > created as "core".
> > fmtutil: `pdftex -ini -fmt=pdftex -progname=pdftex pdftex.ini' failed.
>
> OS: AIX 4.3.2 PPC
> compiler: comes with the system, NOT the GNU compiler
So, try to compile pdftex with less opt
> When running texconfig, I get the following
> texconfig -> Error opening terminal: generic
> and the program exits with an exit status of 1.
Is the texmf tarball installed correctly in $TEXMFMAIN?
The terminfo entry sould be in texmf/texconfig/g/generic.
You can debug texconfig by running it
> I just completely erased my old teTeX installation and
> reinstalled it. I think I have all the TEXINPUTS*
> variables pointing to the right directories.
Better don't sprcify the system directories for TEXINPUTS directly.
It is too easy to do it wrong. A empty search component in TEXINPUTS
soul
> TEXMFCNF = .:{$SELFAUTOLOC,$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}\
> {,{/share,}/texmf{.local,}/web2c};c;/TeX/texmf/web2c
>
> If I changed that to
>
> TEXMFCNF = .:{$VARTEXMF,$SELFAUTOLOC,$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}\
> {,{/share,}/texmf{.local,}/web2c};c;/TeX/texmf/web2c
>
> then the programs wo
[Cc: added for xdvi(k) maintainers]
> I compiled and installed the new XFree86 4.0. It seems to work fine, but
> teTeX's XDVI does not. It gives error message:
>
> Error: XtMakeGeometryRequest - parent not composite
>
> Do I have to recompile the teTeX, or what is the problem?
I have no idea.
> tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
If running in batch mode, try to set NO_CLEAR=true in the environment,
e.g. as in
env NO_CLEAR=true texconfig font ro
Maybe, I should check with "tty -s" whether texconfig is connected to
a terminal... Does anybody know of a UNIX system where
tt
> Subject: Re: env NO_CLEAR=true texconfig font ro doesn't work on irix65 in batch
I see. There are a lot of instances of direct calls to the program
clear. Can you replace them by cls and try again (except for the one
call to clear in the body of the function cls itself)?
> what is meant by tty
> One of our users noticed that our teTeX-1.0 is much slower than the old
> teTeX-0.4.
I guess that file searching is the cause. Please, compare the search paths
(e.g. adding !! in the TEXMF definition in teTeX-1.0 might help a lot).
Real debugging for file searching can be done by setting KPAT
> dvips: xputenv.c:79: xputenv: Assertion `old_item' failed.
> Aborted
This problem has been analyzed and nothing wrong in the kpathsea code
could be found. I guess that the problem is some incompatibility in the
libc library.
Does the libc6 binary that I provide work on both platfor
> gave nothing. Could you be more precise please? What is dvipsk to
> begin with?
$ dvips -version
This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
The program that you start with "dvips" is a dvipsk in fact.
"dvips --version" gives an explicit statement about the
> > > Consider the file test.sh
> > >#!/bin/sh
> > >trap 'rc=$?; echo $rc; exit $rc' 0 1 2 15
> > >exit 1
> > >
> > > And now, type
> > >sh test.sh || echo 1
> > >
> > > On HP-UX 10.20 with ksh, it prints 0.
Obviously, "exit 1" does not set $? to 1 on some systems. To fix the
ma
> #!/bin/ksh
>
> changes behaviour. It doesn't echo number 1, but sets the exit code
> correctly.
Which means that the ksh does not execute the trap at all. Obviously,
the bourne shell and the korn shell are not really compatible... Only
at the very basic level...
Thomas
> Has it been considered to detect and then use stow by the installation
> and texconfig to manage symlinks from the tetex tree to common places?
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
No, but that should all work without any problem. teTeX, by default,
already installs into a directory of its ow
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode cx --bdpi 300 --mag 1+0/300 --dpi 300
> cmbx12
> mktexpk: Running hbf2gf -q -p cmbx12 300
> Couldn't open `cmbx.cfg'
mktexpk runs hbf2gf with "test" option to check whether the font in
question is supported by hbf2gf or not. If "hbf2gf" does not return an
err
>I have added the neccesary lines in fmtutil.cnf
>latex209 tex - lplain.tex
>slitex tex - splain.tex
>
>The problem is that these formats ask for
>user input and at that point fmtutil aborts.
>Is there an easy fix for this?
What kind of user input is needed? Typing \du
> sh: mktexpk: not found.
...
> When I installed teTeX, I did not choose the option to create the symbolinc
> links, but I do have symbolic links that are rather old and I suppose they
Well, you can easily make the links "by hand". Example:
cd /usr/local/bin
rm -f `ls /usr/local/teTeX-beta-
> 1. what does it mean to have tetex installed as one tree?
I think this means to install teTeX into a directory of its own. I.e. Not
to install it directly into /usr/local where it shares /usr/local/bin
whith other packgaes, but some directory like /usr/local/teTeX which is
exclusively used by
> % /usr/local/lib/texmf/dvips/config> cat config.pbv
> p +pbv.map
>
> Running xdvi:
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 pbvr8r
> mktexpk: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1+0/600; nonstopmode; input pbvr8r
xdvi does not read pbv.map, because dvips -Pgsft
> Where?
gsftopk(1)
Thomas
> But how, if I would like to show them using a beamer?
I use pdflatex + pdfslides and do presentations using the acrobat
reader. With
http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/,
you can even get "fancy" effects, known from Powerpoint.
Thomas
> Ideally, I would like to have the (La)TeX interpreter available as a shared
> library, which could then be invoked with something like:
There is some code in web2c to make some functionality available via
the IPC mechanism. This might or might not help you. I suggest you to
ask your question on
> Thomas: is there a particular reason for it not being included in
> tetex? I did not find any offending copyright notice. The
It did not plug in easily when I looked at it some time ago (problems
including it into the source tree and problems with map files).
I think that I'll add dvipdfm so
> My font "jvnr8a.pfb" has already install in :
> /usr/share/texmf.local/fonts/pfb/microsft/verdana/
Change the search path for type1 fonts in texmf.cnf or rename
/usr/share/texmf.local/fonts/pfb
to
/usr/share/texmf.local/fonts/type1
Then texhash again.
Thomas
> pdflatex -mktex=pk
>
> does the program do so. Is there an option in texconfig to set this to be the
No.
Thomas
> Could it turn out to be a problem with other programs that use pdflatex if i
> renamed the pdflatex binary (to something like "pdflatex.bin") and wrote a
> shell wrapper that basically does something like "pdflatex.bin -mktex=pk $*" ?
You can set
MKTEXPK=1
in your environment or texmf.cnf.
> In my tetex-1.0.6 (RH61) I can not found all necessary files for type1
> URW fonts (avantgar, bookman,courier,helvetic,ncntrsbk, palatino,times
> ). Only pfb & afm are available. I installed tetex via RPM package. Is
> this a error of RPM package or tetex distribution.
Well, this is no error at
> > Some users here are cautiously using pdflatex from teTeX 1.0.7 for the
> > first time (pdflatex 3.14159-13d)
>
> is teTeX really only 13d?
The "stable" teTeX release (1.0) basically is from june last year. The
7 patches did not update pdftex.
> 3.14159-14f-released-2313, for what its
> When I use the letters 'fi' (like in benefit), I get them allright in the
> DVI file, but get a pound sign in the PDF file instead.
> Likewise I get a crossed circle sign for 'fl'.
Sounds like some option tells dvips to enable the "character shifting"
feature which is incompatible with the font
> work fine, but if I export an eps from xv, and run epstopdf on it and then
> include the pdf, it doesn't render correctly in acroread, in spite of the
I have made the same experience with pdftex versions before 0.14. If you
use xv, better save as gif or png and include this into pdftex 0.13. Us
> > Both epsf.sty and colordvi.sty are included in every *standard* TeX
> > distribution, so something went wrong with your upgrade.
Well, the files epsf.sty and colordvi.sty are not provided, but that
should not be a problem, since the aliases files (in the main texmf tree)
maps epsf.sty to epsf
Dear Ryan,
> I am trying to find out if it is possible for the texconfig program
> within teTeX 1.0.6 to wipe out a hard disk. Right now it is my
Yes, I fear that this is true. Your mail is the second report of such
a misbehaviour. George Tourlakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has reported this
three mo
Hi,
here are my conclusions and a few answers to questions and comments
about this subject.
- using find / xargs
xargs fails as soon as filenames contain whitespace (space or newline)
- using find ... -print0 | xargs -0
That works fine with GNU tools, but I cannot assume that these are
i
We are getting closer to the problem (look at the forwarded mail in the
end of my reply). I am sure that mktexlsr (alias texhash) was the reason
in the other two cases as well.
The only thing that fires after "normal" completion of mktexlsr are the
commands in the trap line. Can you please try th
> I've made a few corrections and improvements to the dvi2tty package.
> Whos's maintaining the software now? I need someone to pass my patches
> The documentations seems too outdated to be trustable. I don't know
> if this software has many users, but I'd like to be 100% compatibl
> I notice that the source packaged in tetex does NOT contain
> the code for the info command which I would like to include
This is intentional. I prefer to leave this program out of teTeX, because
it has caused too much trouble in the past. E.g. a default compilation
links agains shared librarie
> However, fmt files are specific to a platform. If I want to mount the
No. Just keep things as they are.
> Where is getting that the bdpi (whatever that is) and resolution is 300.
Maybe, you have some config.$PRINTER which says to use 300dpi. Or some
~/.dvipsrc.
Use KPATHSEA_DEBUG=4 and see
> ..> kpsewhich pdftex.map
>
> gives no result. `pdftex' can find pdftex.map! Why not `kpsewhich'?
kpsewhich wrongly guesses the file type:
$ KPATHSEA_DEBUG=-1 kpsewhich pdftex.map 2>&1 | grep 'Search path for' | tail -1
kdebug:Search path for map files (from texmf.cnf)
Let us try to fin
> If character shifting is needed it should be configured on a font-by-font
> basis. Perhaps there should be a list of fonts to which shifting will be
> applied when the option is set for dvips. This is really a dvips issue.
The dvips maintainer knows about the problem that character shifting
o
> It would be nice if texconfig had some command line options so that
texconfig help
Thomas
> Now how about adding this remark to the texconfig man page!!!
Sure, that should be added to the manpage.
Thomas
> I've recently built (a number of times) teTeX-1.0.7 (with update 001 and
> update 002) on a new Solaris 2.8 system (with numerous patches) using GCC
> 2.95.2 built on the same system. The configure and compilation step
...
> Running mf to create plain base ...
> Bus Error
...
>
> Current setting: a4
Right, this is desirable. The same is true for the interactive part of
texconfig. The directory names setup (for the mktex* scripts) section
has this kind of feedback.
I might implement more feedback of this kind, but not in the near future.
So, if anybody wants to provide
> Is there somewhere a bug list (and maybe fixes) for tetex 1.0.7? Or there're no
>known bugs
> for 1.0.7?
I maintain a non-public "TODO" list. Some items are bugfixes. Most reports
/ fixes are send through mailing lists (texk, tetex, tetex-pretest,
pdftex), so reading them is a good idea...
Th
> Cannot find font file mtsyn.pfb
Mathtime fonts are commercial (get them e.g. from Y&Y). Alternatives:
- mathptm(x) (uses free replacements from e.g. Symbol font; incomplete)
- Belleek (attempts to be a free replacement for Mathtime; fonts have a
few problems)
Thomas
> Is there a reason why the context formats are commented out in the
> fmtutil.cnf file? I'm sure that uncommenting it in the tetex
Yes. I restrict teTeX to the formats which I consider "basic". These are
plain and latex. I might change my view with respect of context so day...
Thomas
Dear George,
> 1) ConTeXt requires the table macro package, which AFAIK is not free, viz.
> licen-en.pdf
>
> [3.5] This licence does not apply to components of the official version
> that are provided by third parties.
>
> 2) The license says the sources are GPL's, but adds constraints on how
> I am trying to integrate a more recent version of pdftex (14g) with my
> teTex-1.0.7.
Please, do
fmtutil --byfmt pdflatex
Do not forget to update hyperref, pdftex.def, supp-mis.tex, supp-pdf.tex
available at
http://tug.org/applications/pdftex/
Thomas
> My ldap2bibtex client's output for this entry is:
...
> What I'd like to end up with is the integration of BibTeX with the
> ldap searching procedure, such that each entry is resolved when
> BibTeX is running instead of searching a static file. This is why
Instead of hacking bibtex, you could
> some time ago, I posted the attached question, but I didn't get any
> answer. Is there really nonody wo can help?
This usually does not happen in teTeX, so I thought this was a debian problem...
> But xdvi stupidly makes fonts for mode ljfour. So, please, where do I
> find the REAL default mod
> I am looking for a program (linux/unix) that can dump (show/print) a
> given pf(a/b)-Fontfile?
http://gfontview.sourceforge.net/
Thomas
> The files seen by the users are mounted on a
> read-only volume /usr/local/vol/tetex/1.07
> but when I install it, I have to access the
> read-write volume
> /afs/blabla//usr/local/vol/tetex/1.07
So, just "tell" teTeX to use the read-write path for compilation.
The search paths adjust on runti
> that it was about the env-variable TEXMF, TEXINPUT. After we've removed
> them it started working again. Why are they still there if not needed.
Do not ask me why *you* set TEXMF and TEXINPUTS. *You* are responsible
for your environment, not me.
> Why can't tex tell me *where* it is searching
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 05:46:08PM +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
> > does anybody have up to date rpms for Suse Linux? It still ships
> > with pdftex 0.13d :-(
>
> Hmmm ... we still ship teTeX-src-1.0.7 and teTeX-texmf-1.0.2,
> is there anything newer _not_ beeing a beta release?
There is noth
[Added xdvi + xdvik maintainers to Cc:]
> I have "updated" my system to RedHat 7.0, and now my xdvi does not
> have any of the buttons (Quit and friends).
>
> I'd like to emphasize that I have my own tetex installation, and I am
> not using the RH rpms, so the only thing that changed is XFree and
> Have you tried --
> plain (non-k) xdvi?
I just did (for xdvi-22.29):
./configure --with-tetex
make
TEXMFMAIN=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf TEXMFCNF=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c
./xdvi /tmp/small2e
and the buttens were not missing.
One warning (error?) was displayed, though:
Hi,
first, a further analysis of messages displayed by xdvi-22.29; an analysis
of the "button problem" follows later.
xdvi-22.29 error messages on startup:
Starting xdvi-22.29 from the build directory with
TEXMFMAIN=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf TEXMFCNF=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c
> What is the difference between 1.0.7 and 1.0.6? I can't seem to find a
> detailed changelog anywhere.
Just some cleanups in scripts. Binaries are the same (in 1.0.6 and 1.0.7).
$ diff -ru a b | grep '^diff'
diff -ru a/teTeX-1.0/PROBLEMS b/teTeX-1.0/PROBLEMS
diff -ru a/teTeX-1.0/texk/gsftopk/re
> main_memory.context = 110
> main_memory = 263000 % words of inimemory available; also applies to inimf&mp
>
> ). What is `.context'? Is there a (required) relationship between `main.
> memory.context' and `main.memory'? Incidentally, why such odd numeric values?
Ignore the .context values.
> If you look at the texconfig, it uses the dialog program
> (atleast on Linux and BSD). So, it seems you have not defined
> your TERM environment variable. Try xterm or vt100, depending on
> what kind of terminal (emulator) you use.
texconfig ignores the environment variable $TERM (and sets TERM
es for the binaries), we are quite sure that every
file is covered by a free software license.
Thank you for your help!
Thomas Esser
> What did I miss?
To write a proper bug report which enables other people to reproduce
your problem?
Thomas
> $ dvips -o presentation.ps presentation.dvi
> This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2000.10.23:1627' -> presentation.ps
> dvips: Can't open font metric file phvr8r.tfm
> dvips: I will use cmr10.tfm instead, so expect
> So, the ec-fonts are not installed on teTeX-beta-2807 ?
The simple "driver files" are generated "on the fly". Just try to
use, e.g. ecrm1000.
Thomas
> I see mention on this list of `teTeX-beta-2807', yet when I look
> under the link `beta versions' on `The teTeX Homepage' (http://www.tug.org/
> tetex/) the FTP directory there is empty.
>
> Shouldn't the directory have something in it?
The admin of ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de says that they
> 29) Metafont does not support the X display.
> It may be that your Metafont binary is compiled without support for
> the X windows system. If there exists a mf.X binary, that one
> has the missing X support you need.
This is a bug in the docs. The name of the program is mfw.
> $ xdvi a&
> $ kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfivemp --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600
> --dpi 600 pbkl7t
> mktexpk: Running mf \mode:=ljfivemp; mag:=1+0/600; nonstopmode; input
> pbkl7t
The problem is that xdvi does not find pbkl7t.vf. Does some environment
variable force xdvi to use a wrong searc
> I can do this after the fact by setting the TEXMFCNF environment variable
> to point to the directory containing the preferred version texmf.cnf -- is
Change TEXMFCNF in texk/kpathsea/texmf.in to whatever you need.
Thomas
> [...]
> > kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfivemp --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600
> > --dpi 600 pbkl7t
> ...
> You seem to be missing the font outlines. xdvi needs them to
> create the preview. Just create ps file and preview it with gs.
This interpretation misses the point: the problem here is
> export PATH=/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:$PATH
...
> TEXMFMAIN ``/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc/share/texmf'' seems to have
Whow. Cool. Can you please
$ kpsewhich -expand-var='$SELFAUTOLOC -- $SELFAUTODIR -- $SELFAUTOPARENT'
I, for example, get the following output:
/x/t/i/teTeX/bi
> # kpsewhich -expand-var='$SELFAUTOLOC -- $SELFAUTODIR -- $SELFAUTOPARENT'
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu -- /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux --
>/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc
Looks very broken. This sould be impossible. Look at the kpathsea code
(progname.c, I think). Must be a c
> EPM is a free UNIX software/file packaging program that generates
> distribution archives from a list of files. The distributions
> include installation and removal scripts that handle such details
> as diskless client installations and initialization scripts.
>
> EPM can also generate "native
> In teTeX-1.0.7, in the top level configure script, the variable
> needs_pnglib is carefully set, but on line 2539, needs_libpng is
> referred to instead of needs_pnglib.
Thanks. The fix is to replace needs_libpng by needs_pnglib in
libs/libpng/libpng.ac and to run the reautoconf script (at top-
> I just discovered that when texdoc finds an .html file, it
> tries to start a new Netscape, using the command
Right. I have changed texdoc a few months ago in my sources:
: ${TEXDOCVIEW_html='netscape -remote openURL'"'(%s)'"' 2>/dev/null || netscape %s
&'}
Anyway, thanks for your suggest
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