Re: Is anyone using the TeX Live DVD binaries for OpenBSD?
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Edd Barrettvex...@gmail.com wrote: we have a few problems here too (using TeX Live in both OpenBSD 4.6 and -current, on i386 and amd64); i would suggest sending a detailed bug report to the TeX Live developers at this mailing list: Ok, we need to consult upstream. Do you want to do that or shall I? As a followup to all these problem reports, I can offer a success report: the 'Docbook To Latex Publishing' package (dblatex) installs easily and seems to produce pdf's just fine from DocBook XML on my stock off-the-shelf i386 OpenBSD 4.5 box. Best, -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut?
Re: Is anyone using the TeX Live DVD binaries for OpenBSD?
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Eric d'Alibuteric.hali...@gmail.com wrote: I bulled ahead and installed the 2008 texlive from TUG, but still errors. Say I do: [...] Thoughts? (Sorry if this is such a sketchy report, but I'm pressed for time right now!) we have a few problems here too (using TeX Live in both OpenBSD 4.6 and -current, on i386 and amd64); i would suggest sending a detailed bug report to the TeX Live developers at this mailing list: http://www.tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-live (if these bugs are unknown, it is a good time to report them as TeX Live 2009 is being developed yet.) TeX distributions have been stable for decades; however, in the last years these distributions have grown out of control. we cannot expect a software package to require 1 GB and being stable yet. there is no way for so large packages to be fully tested. i do most of my work using either plain TeX or LaTeX2e. XML support is a relatively new feature, so we should expect it being experimental. i would certainly be happy with a small TeX distribution that supports only plain TeX and LaTeX2e and a very small subset of packages. other packages can be easily imported from CTANs, and new features are... well... experimental yet.
Re: Is anyone using the TeX Live DVD binaries for OpenBSD?
On 8/20/09, Igor Sobrado igor.sobr...@gmail.com wrote: Thoughts? (Sorry if this is such a sketchy report, but I'm pressed for time right now!) we have a few problems here too (using TeX Live in both OpenBSD 4.6 and -current, on i386 and amd64); i would suggest sending a detailed bug report to the TeX Live developers at this mailing list: Ok, we need to consult upstream. Do you want to do that or shall I? tex-l...@tug.org. Does this happen on tl-2009? (the svn version) (if these bugs are unknown, it is a good time to report them as TeX Live 2009 is being developed yet.) It's frozen. Sorry. I will be working on this at p2k9 (probably). TeX distributions have been stable for decades; however, in the last years these distributions have grown out of control. we cannot expect a software package to require 1 GB and being stable yet. there is no way for so large packages to be fully tested. i do most of my work using either plain TeX or LaTeX2e. Yup. It's a big problem. I have been musing about a hybrid texlive/miktex package which downloads stuff as needed, but I decided against it. XML support is a relatively new feature, so we should expect it being experimental. i would certainly be happy with a small TeX distribution that supports only plain TeX and LaTeX2e and a very small subset of packages. other packages can be easily imported from CTANs, and new features are... well... experimental yet. It's called -minimal :P That is equivilent to tetex. You can then make your own texmf tree in your home dir. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett
Re: Is anyone using the TeX Live DVD binaries for OpenBSD?
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Edd Barrettvex...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/20/09, Igor Sobrado igor.sobr...@gmail.com wrote: we have a few problems here too (using TeX Live in both OpenBSD 4.6 and -current, on i386 and amd64); i would suggest sending a detailed bug report to the TeX Live developers at this mailing list: Ok, we need to consult upstream. Do you want to do that or shall I? tex-l...@tug.org. i think that all of us need to consult upstream as we have different problems with TeX Live (e.g., in my case these problems are mostly core dumps from xdvi and some annoying messages about missing fonts (even with -full) when processing some TeX files in the documentation). Does this happen on tl-2009? (the svn version) i haven't tried it; we are only using binaries from the repository, as TeX Live is mostly a tool for our work. to be honest, i never considered participating in the development of a TeX distribution. :-) (if these bugs are unknown, it is a good time to report them as TeX Live 2009 is being developed yet.) It's frozen. Sorry. I will be working on this at p2k9 (probably). i supposed they were willing to know about bugs yet: http://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html well, at least we can work improving TeX Live 2010. TeX distributions have been stable for decades; however, in the last years these distributions have grown out of control. we cannot expect a software package to require 1 GB and being stable yet. there is no way for so large packages to be fully tested. i do most of my work using either plain TeX or LaTeX2e. Yup. It's a big problem. I have been musing about a hybrid texlive/miktex package which downloads stuff as needed, but I decided against it. it sounds like a challenging work, more than a TeX Live port it was a new distribution itself. :-) XML support is a relatively new feature, so we should expect it being experimental. i would certainly be happy with a small TeX distribution that supports only plain TeX and LaTeX2e and a very small subset of packages. other packages can be easily imported from CTANs, and new features are... well... experimental yet. It's called -minimal :P That is equivilent to tetex. You can then make your own texmf tree in your home dir. fine! i will try it some day. the TUG should consider is publishing a minimal list of packages that are required for any TeX distribution (and, as a consequence, used safely on any document to allow it being processed on any TeX installation), leaving the other ones as extension packages for more specialized uses or people wishing to do something non-standard. Even more, the classes for ACM or AMS publications should be downloaded from their respective organizations (assuring we have the most up to date classes installed). well, i am just dreaming.
Re: Is anyone using the TeX Live DVD binaries for OpenBSD?
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Edd Barrettvex...@gmail.com wrote: Over at the TeX Live camp we are wondering if anyone is using the binaries found on the DVD distributed by the TeX User Group on OpenBSD? I haven't used those particular binaries, but in my quest to get a working DocBook XML - PDF toolchain set up on OpenBSD 4.5. I did install texlive from ports, first main, and then full. The binaries ran but I ran into errors converting .fo to .pdf with pdftex. I bulled ahead and installed the 2008 texlive from TUG, but still errors. Say I do: pdftex --interaction nonstopmode pdfxmltex newtest.fo Then I get: -snip- (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/t1phv.fd File: t1phv.fd 2001/06/04 scalable font definitions for T1/phv. ) LaTeX Font Info:Font shape `T1/phv/bx/n' in size 24.8832 not available (Font) Font shape `T1/phv/b/n' tried instead on input line 2. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. -snip- The file 'newtest.fo' -- from a Docbook 4.2 xml source -- produces pdf output just fine using a commercial tool. Thoughts? (Sorry if this is such a sketchy report, but I'm pressed for time right now!) -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut?
Re: Is anyone using the TeX Live DVD binaries for OpenBSD?
Am Mon, 1 Jun 2009 00:08:19 +0100 schrieb Edd Barrett vex...@gmail.com: Hi, Over at the TeX Live camp we are wondering if anyone is using the binaries found on the DVD distributed by the TeX User Group on OpenBSD? ... Hi Edd, please excuse if this may sound odd to you - but do those binaries on the TeX Live DVD differ to those you provide via http://www.openbsd.org/4.5_packages/i386/texlive_texmf-full-2008p1.tgz-long.h tml? BTW: Thank you for maintaining this port - it works like a charm! Kind regards, STEFAN [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
