Re: TeX

2010-10-31 Thread David Jensen
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:10:06 -0500 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: I'll be honest - TeX isn't something I use, but several of the packages I'm about to update use it. Ken, I don't have TeX on my system and I haven't used it in several years, but I think

Re: TeX

2010-10-31 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:18:07AM -0500, David Jensen wrote: As I grok Ken's post, he doesn't understand the patches to the old Tex or the build/install of the new Tex-Live, hence he does not want to be 'on the spot' for the package. I agree, this needs someone who really wants to dig into

Re: TeX

2010-10-31 Thread Randy McMurchy
On 10/31/2010 1:51 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: I guess I *am* happy to update it as a temporary measure. If I feel nice, I might even list the programs (partly because there are differences in the minimal install from what the default TeX Live binary created, e.g. texi2html is present but htlatex

Re: TeX

2010-10-31 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 06:30:38PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: I guess you missed my message to the TRAC system this morning saying that I will try to get Tex-Live (from source) into the book this week. I'm working against a current LFS-SVN build, but if it works out, I'll replace TeX with