Bug#754529: typo in impnattypo

2014-07-21 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: it seems that there is a nasty problem with encoding in impnattypo.xml in the TeX Catalogue. It is rendered as Fran§aise ... weird. the mangled characters were there in the xml file, not merely being sloppily translated. i've

Bug#750057: [tex-live] Serious (?) problem with Babel and language attributes

2014-06-01 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: I got a bug report here at Debian, but it is the same in the current TL2014 status. It seems that something with the language attributes is up-side-down: The report states that \today prints the wrong month for June in Russian. It should be

Bug#750057: [tex-live] Serious (?) problem with Babel and language attributes

2014-06-01 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Manfred Lotz manf...@dante.de wrote: On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 10:28:34 +0100 Robin Fairbairns robin.fairbai...@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: I got a bug report here at Debian, but it is the same in the current TL2014 status. It seems that something

Bug#703212: [tex-k] dvips segfault

2013-03-17 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: at Debian we got a bug report about segfaulting dvips when reading and writing to itself .. (yes I know it is not very intelligent, but still segfaulting is not optimal): [...] [1887007337Segmentation fault This is with current TeX Live 2012 (but

Bug#647433: [l2h] New release of latex2html?

2012-11-23 Thread Robin Fairbairns
to waste any _more_ time. sorry you've been inconvenienced. i hope you understand our situation. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#647433: [l2h] New release of latex2html?

2012-11-22 Thread Robin Fairbairns
. roughly speaking, with abandonware like l2h, we merely go by the licence. gpl implies (to us) that anyone can hack out a bug and re-release. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#674185: [texdoc] texdoc and cweb manual

2012-05-25 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Robin Fairbairns robin.fairbai...@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: [...] 3 /home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/doc/plain/cweb/cwebman.dvi Hum, really? ;-) if i wasn't otherwise engaged (dancing in small circles around the catalogue) i would redo that as a pdf. you can't read dvi out

Bug#674185: [texdoc] texdoc and cweb manual

2012-05-24 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard m...@elzevir.fr wrote: On 24/05/2012 00:48, Norbert Preining wrote: texdoc cannot find cweb manual: $ texdoc -l cweb 1 /home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/doc/latex/cweb-latex/cweb-user.pdf = User manual 2

Bug#635382: [tex-live] Bug#635382: new release of latex-unicode

2012-04-19 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Wolfgang Jeltsch wolfg...@cs.ioc.ee wrote: By the way, the package is already called “ucs” in TeXLive. However, it is called “unicode” in MiKTeX. And it is called “unicode” on CTAN, and its directory on CTAN is also called “unicode”. i wonder what you consider is naming what, here? if you're

Bug#667805: [tex-live] la.sty and va.sty and non-free fonts

2012-04-09 Thread Robin Fairbairns
down here we got a complain that the fonts for la.sty and va.sty cannot be found. And indeed it seems that the la font has no license statement at all, thus the font is not included in TL. But we still ship la.sty and va.sty in teh fundus package. I am not sure, but I would say we should

Bug#666791: [tex-live] Bug#666791: g-brief uses marvosym, but both defined \EMail

2012-04-02 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:10, Norbert Preining wrote: I already wanted to upload the package to CTAN when I realized that back then we had a problem with whether or not we are allowed to distribute original PDF documentation. Martin

Bug#467183: Long-standing bug in marvosym.sty

2011-10-13 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Hilmar Preusse hill...@web.de wrote: On 11.10.11 Robin Fairbairns (robin.fairbai...@cl.cam.ac.uk) wrote: tex live gets its marvosym from fonts/marvosym fwiw, i've moved the obsolete version out of the way; it will no longer be available from any proper mirror, at the old address

Bug#467183: Long-standing bug in marvosym.sty

2011-10-11 Thread Robin Fairbairns
the package was taken over, earlier this year, and re-done. the test program compiles correctly with tex live 11, under latex or pdflatex. why is it satisfactory to send out bug messages without testing whether the bug has been corrected? Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

Bug#467183: Long-standing bug in marvosym.sty

2011-10-11 Thread Robin Fairbairns
marvosym from fonts/marvosym fwiw, i've moved the obsolete version out of the way; it will no longer be available from any proper mirror, at the old address, in a day or so. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#571679: [tex-live] Bug#571679: moving ucs back to -recommended

2010-03-10 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: On Mi, 10 Mär 2010, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote: Well, ucs isn't required for utf8 input, \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} is enough. Well, I myself always use \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}, but without knowing why. Probably I had problems at some

Bug#571679: [tex-live] Bug#571679: moving ucs back to -recommended

2010-03-10 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at wrote: On Mi, 10 Mär 2010, Philipp Stephani wrote: If you want Greek, Japanese or similar, you probably should not be using pdfTeX at all. Huuu? But? Plain TeX? unicode-based engines good, 8-bit engines (tex, pdftex,...) bad. you can bash 16-bit

Bug#122635: Unclear documentation of rotating.sty

2010-01-26 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Hilmar Preusse hill...@web.de wrote: One of our users complained about rotating.sty not working. After some investigation, it turned out that he hadn't realized the necessity of running the DVI file through dvips in order to see the effects. The following patch to rotating.dtx adds a

Bug#518800: [tex-live] lamsarrow.sty non-free?

2009-03-10 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de wrote: 2009/3/10, Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at: Suggestions? Contact Spivak through http://www.mathpop.com and ask him to free LamS-TeX. would he? the alternative is to claim that pb-diagram *only* works with the xy fonts. (those fonts have the

Bug#425085: [tex-live] Bug#425085: texlive-doc-en: catalogue entries with dangling links

2007-06-20 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Karl Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't look straightforward to fix - any ideas? We will probably reinstate the Catalogue in TL, and when we do, I guess we should not just copy the files, but set up some kind of conversion process. Ugh. the catalogue as you see it on ctan or

Bug#426790: [tex-live] Bug#426790: Bug#426790: mathpple.map should be listed in updmap.cfg

2007-06-05 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to, but I don't have much time. And I'm still waiting for input from Walter Schmidt. a lot of people are waiting for input from walter schmidt; i'm beginning to worry that he's seriously ill, or something. i know of a contract he agreed to