Bug#325187: texlive: missing aliases file (was: tetex-base: Missing aliases for documentation)
Hi Frank! On Don, 11 Jan 2007, Frank Küster wrote: In TeXlive, there is no alias file at all. Is there a reason for that - I think the idea is quite nice. No idea. What programs do support these aliases? All of the TL suite? Would be surprising ... Honestly, I have no idea. Best wishes Norbert --- Dr. Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED]Università di Siena Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 --- DULEEK (n.) Sudden realisation, as you lie in bed waiting for the alarm to go off, that it should have gone off an hour ago. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#325187: texlive: missing aliases file
Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Frank! On Don, 11 Jan 2007, Frank Küster wrote: In TeXlive, there is no alias file at all. Is there a reason for that - I think the idea is quite nice. No idea. What programs do support these aliases? All of the TL suite? Would be surprising ... Of course, it's a kpathsea feature: , kpathsea.info | 3.4 Filename database (`ls-R') | == | | [...] | A second database file `aliases' allows you to give additional names | to the files listed in `ls-R'. This can be helpful to adapt to 8.3 | filename conventions in source files. | | The `ls-R' and `aliases' features are implemented in the source file | `kpathsea/db.c'. ` I'll ask on the TeX Live list. I think someone once said aliases are a bad idea, but I do not agree... Regards, Frank P.S. as for the mail thing, I hoped you would do it because you understand a bit what's going on on the Launchpad side. I only can say they want to send us a confirmation e-mail. But that is probably enough, I'll try to contact the Debian listmasters. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
Bug#325187: texlive: missing aliases file
Norbert Preining wrote: On Don, 11 Jan 2007, Frank Küster wrote: In TeXlive, there is no alias file at all. Is there a reason for that - I think the idea is quite nice. No idea. What programs do support these aliases? All of the TL suite? Would be surprising ... IIRC the alias file is a feature of the kpathsea library. I don't have that manual here to check that, though. In that case it would be supported by all applications that use kpathsea. cheerio ralf
Bug#325187: texlive: missing aliases file (was: tetex-base: Missing aliases for documentation)
Hi all, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: tetex-base Version: 3.0-7 Severity: minor As discussed this week on debian-tetex-maint, - currently aliases don't work because the documentation files are gzip'ed - a lot of packages could use new aliases. Some of them are: - all the packages in psnfss, to psnfss2e.pdf.gz - pxfonts to pxfontsdocA4.pdf.gz - to be continued. In TeXlive, there is no alias file at all. Is there a reason for that - I think the idea is quite nice. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
