On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 11:39:37AM +0200, Allard Welter wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 09:24:24AM +0200, Allard Welter wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 11:45 PM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Can you get an ID for trac (the wiki), please (ask Bruce) and raise a
> > > > ticket so I don't forget this ?
> > > >
> > > > At the moment my current systems don't have texlive installed, and I
> can't
> > > > see any point in me adding it to them - I'll be throwing them away
> soon
> > > > because we will soon be freezing and testing for 8.2.
> > >
> > > It is not a texlive issue.
> > >
> >
> > In terms of editing the book, if an additional pair of dependencies (tk at
> > compile time, a perl module at runtime) add something that you want, then
> for
> > editing the book it is a bug against the book's texlive instructions.
>
> Tk is not required at compile time, that was my error (see below).
>
> > And I'm not going to add it until I'm using a current system with texlive
> (so
> > that I can test what I write).
>
> Appreciated.
>
As it happened, I had to go back to 8.1 to test that the use of
texlive on the mutt manual still "works" (inverted commas because
the result is iffy, but it has been like that for ages - a lot of
packages which use parts of TeX for docs get stuck using
constructions that probably worked fine when they were written,
there was an example in the kernel cd docs which got a patch this
weekend to fix build breakage - at some point the old markup for
German "sharp s" 'ß' had changed).
So I've just added Tk (also can be used in ptex and conTeXt) to the
runtime deps in current svn.
>
> Perhaps, but the issue I raised is particular to the dvi backend. The dvi
> only
> contains font information (fonts in a pdf are usually embedded). In order to
> render the dvi document, TeX must find the fonts and the information it
> needs to
> do this is contained in texmf.cnf. Evince assumes texlive is installed in a
> default location so it doesn't find texmf.cnf unless TEXMFCNF is set. This
> is a
> bug in evince in my opinion.
>
If you get a wiki ID, you could add that - probably on the texlive
page (since it is specific to using evince with texlive). Or in
both.
ĸen
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