I have now managed to create a package which tests the basic functionality of TeX Live (when I last touched this, most of the examples I found had problems). :
http://higgs.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tex-testfiles/tex-test-20140628.tar.gz It has four targets, all of which create a PDF of the same name : latex : uses pdflatex, checks the basics lualatex : checks UTF-8 TTF / OTF font handling, and uses lua to generate a random number. picture : creates a coloured venn diagram to test that asymptote is working. encyclopedium : to quote from Deep Purple In Rock's sleeve notes: "some old roots, replanted". Random thoughts, mostly unreliable, to test indexing with xindy (yay! I found an example which actually still worked with last year's TeX Live - xindy has had many changes). All of these, except for encyclopedium, are single pages (if you use A4). Encyclopedium produces 4 pages (if it works) - for me it works on last year's binary install on top of BLFS-7.5, now I need to find out if I still have a from-source TeX install which includes xindy. Dependencies: Xorg, with either Deja Vu Serif (preferred) or FreeSerif fonts (and, of course, fc-list). ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
