Re: No swedish hyphen rules?

[Robin Fairbairns]

 Hello.
 
 In tetex 1.0 there is a file share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/sehyph.tex.
 It is not present in 2.0.  What shall one use for swedish hyphen rules?

the swedish hyphenation patterns aren't completely free (licence
nocommercial).  ctan holds them because we don't charge, but licensing
for tetex and texlive, which get distributed in ways which may be
deemed to be charging, is a more serious matter.  (the details of this
issue have been worked out since the days of the production of tetex
1.0, which is why the patterns were in that version.)

on ctan in nonfree/language/hyphenation/sehyph.tex -- get yourself a
copy from there.

robin

Re: teTeX-2.0 - second release candidate

[Robin Fairbairns]

   * texbook.tex / mfbook.tex removed (license, argh!)
  
  Definitely the right thing to do.  If you have found them on CTAN in a
  location outside of the nonfree tree, you should notify the CTAN
  maintainers: it would be definitely not nice to Addison Wesley and
  Knuth to suggest by a bad placement of those files that people were
  allowed to use them freely.
 
 Robin, are you listening?

whistles loudly
inserts fingers in ears

  no

/inserts
/whistles

(actually, i've initiated a discussion on whether we should approach
knuth about a change in representation.)

r

Re: texhash

[Robin Fairbairns]

 is it possible to run texhash with a specific option for one directory (e.g.
 .../texmf-user) 
 not for the whole search path?

um, what's wrong with actually trying?  texhash is idempotent if it
does anything at all.

in fact, it does work.

r

Re: 20021223 pretest

[Robin Fairbairns]

pulled  pushed.  in the middle of writing cards for hand-delivery ;-)

merry christmas, and all that jazz...

robin

Re: 20021219 pretest

[Robin Fairbairns]

pulled and pushed, as usual.

r

Re: 20021216 pretest

[Robin Fairbairns]

 Oops, I am verry sorry. I just have fixed this on my server. Robin,
 can you please force the mirrors again?

done

robin

Re: xdelta names on CTAN

[Robin Fairbairns]

 CTAN (ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/) has:
 
 teTeX-texmf-beta-20021209-20021116.xdelta

[etc]

but not any longer: i've pulled a corrected version from thomas's
site.

robin

Re: Mathfrak-bug?

[Robin Fairbairns]

 Thanks, I reported it to AMS but maybe that was not the right place. 
 Where should I report the bug?

how did you report it?  i recall seeing a discussion of the problem on
one of the latex project internal lists, but that would only happen if
you had reported it to latexbugs/amslatex, or if michael downes had
passed it on to us.

maybe i'm just hallucinating...

r

Re: increasing string size

[Robin Fairbairns]

 From what I understand a capacity exceeded message generally indicates 
 sloppy coding; and capacities rarely need to be increased. However I have a 
 situation using Omega where teTeX gives me
 
 ! Omega capacity exceeded, sorry [number of strings=3265]
 
 but fpTeX gives me no problems at all. Is there a way I can increase the 
 appropriate values in teTeX? Is there a number whose valuse I can compare in 
 both teTeX and fpTeX? Note that I am using the same Omega, version 1.15, in 
 both fpTeX and teTeX from TeX-Live6.

most fptex installs are more recent than current (beta) tetex, which
fptex follows.  in my old install, i have:

% Max number of characters in all strings, including all error messages,
% help texts, font names, control sequences.  These values apply to TeX and MP.
pool_size.context = 75
pool_size = 25
% Minimum pool space after TeX/MP's own strings; must be at least
% 25000 less than pool_size, but doesn't need to be nearly that large.
string_vacancies.context = 45000
string_vacancies = 25000
% Maximum number of strings.
max_strings.context = 55000
max_strings = 3
% min pool space left after loading .fmt
pool_free.context = 47500
pool_free = 5000

but there's no distinction in the current beta between context and
the rest, and all the values are *much* bigger.  perhaps try the
beta stuff i have

pool_size = 125
pool_free = 47500
max_strings = 10
string_vacancies = 9

iirc, you have to regenerate formats after changing these values

robin

Re: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=300]

[Robin Fairbairns]

Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

  Michael == Michael John Downes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  *\end
  
  *\end 
  ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=300].
 
  [...]
 
  which is quite, quite invalid and disastrous.
 
 ... though he only did what he has been told to do:
 
 *
 (Please type a command or say `\end')
 *
 
 I suppose that we need one pool file dor each format.

that would be nice, i agree.  however, in the interim, there's always
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=typend, which i found
rather quickly from the (admittedly feeble) search facilities on
http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq

Re: IfFileExists problem? Only on Mac OS X?

[Robin Fairbairns]

 \ifx \eurofontname\eurofontnone
 \IfFileExists{europs.sty}
{\RequirePackage{europs}}
{\ClassError{g-brief}
  {Can't load package europs.sty !!!}}
 \fi

and

 ! Class g-brief Error: Can't load package europs.sty !!!.
 
 See the g-brief class documentation for explanation.
 Type  H return  for immediate help.
   ...
 
 l.388 \fi
 
 ?
 
 The same happens when I remove marvosym.sty and run texhash, it will 
 complain about not being able to load marvosym. The file is definitely 
 not there, but I get an error because g-brief is trying to load it 
 anyway. \IfFileExists seems not to work here.

it's a latex error if it's actually tried to load the file.  a g-brief
error arises only if the file isn't there (as detected by
\iffileexists)

so \if...ts _is_ working.  mind you, i don't see how one could claim
that the code is ... surely loading marvosym (which defines a euro
symbol) ought to change \eurofontname?  and it plainly isn't (or you
wouldn't have seen the europs error, would you?).