On 13 March 2009 at 14:14, Norbert Preining wrote: | On Fr, 13 M r 2009, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | Yesterday Norbert uploaded a new texlive package, which solved the | > | problem. Would you be so kind to check? | | The problem solved was with respect to recompilation, but the ~ problem | in pdftex is still present! | | > <*> /tmp/buildd/r-base-2.9.0~ | > 20090312/doc/manual/R-FAQ.t2d/pdf/xtr/R-FAQ.texi | | ~ is still an active character, so that cannot work out of the box. | | Sorry, that is not something TeX can actually fix, nor texi2dvi or | anyone else but rewriting the tex engine. | | THe problem is that active characters behave badly if used as file | names. | | That *is*impossible* to be changed.
Good point. But if I recall correctly, then Kurt (whom you may know from his TU Wien days and who is still just a local phone call away) once told me that Karl Berry supposedly had a fix for this. But maybe both Kurt and I were dreaming and this is a 'cannot be fixed'. Which would be a pity as Debian does allow ~ in filenames for the nice 'sorts lower than empty string' trick that is so suitable for pre-releases. | You should somehow | \catcode`\~=11 | BEFORE \inputing that file, and | \catcode`\~=\active | afterwards. Kurt, can you do that to the texinfo sources? | > That is unchanged from previous releases and looks like the texinfo bug is | > not yet fixed. | | I am not sure that this can be fixed at all ... | | texinfo can set the catcode for ~ to 11 before inputting a file, but | then it will be like that for all the input-ed file, which is NOT a good | idea. | | I will ask upstream texinfo about ideas. Keep us posted, and thanks for all your help on libpoppler rebuilds and now this! Cheers from chilly Chicago, Dirk | Best wishes | | Norbert | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Dr. Norbert Preining <[email protected]> Vienna University of Technology | Debian Developer <[email protected]> Debian TeX Group | gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a | lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad | move. | --- The Book just racapping what happened in the last book. | --- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
