On 26 Mar 2014, at 21:01, Andrey Repin <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, Per Mildner! > >>>> I can not get makeinfo --pdf to work on todays Cygwin (same problem in >>>> both 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwin installation, on 64-bit Windows 7). >>>> >>>> It looks as if it can not find the lcircle10 font. I have tried installing >>>> most of the texlive-collection* packages but none seem to install that >>>> font. >>> >>> It's in texlive-collection-latex. Have you installed it? > >> Thank you! This solved the problem. > >> Should not the Cygwin installer resolve this kind of dependency >> automatically? > > Depends on the kind of dependency. > Creating PDF's isn't the primary task of mkinfo.
However, makeinfo --pdf (really texi2any --pdf) invokes texi2dvi and I do not think having texi2dvi makes much sense unless there is a working TeX installation. > Forcing just about everyone > to install texlive is just wrong. Agreed. But having a texi2dvi that is useless is also wrong. > >>> If so, what is the output of "kpsewhich circle10.tfm"? Here's what I get: >>> >>> $ kpsewhich circle10.tfm > >> Should be "kpsewhich lcircle10.tfm" I assume, otherwise it finds nothing for >> me. > >>> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/latex-fonts/lcircle10.tfm > > > -- > WBR, > Andrey Repin ([email protected]) 26.03.2014, <23:59> > > Sorry for my terrible english... > Per Mildner [email protected] Swedish Institute of Computer Science -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
