Re: running texconfig on a console

2002-10-29 Thread Christopher Pinon
Thanks to George, Reinhard, and Adrian for their helpful points. Since the Debian system is an i386, dialog is no doubt what texconfig is missing. I'll add dialog this evening to verify this! Regards, Christopher Pinon

running texconfig on a console

2002-10-28 Thread Christopher Pinon
Hi again, I have a question about running texconfig on a console. On one machine that I sometimes use (Slackware), running texconfig results in a nice menu of options that you can choose from. On another machine (Debian Potato), running texconfig simply results in a list of options (no nice menu

dvips-ing TETEXDOC.dvi

2002-10-24 Thread Christopher Pinon
Hi, No doubt this is an FAQ somewhere, but if I use the '-Ppdf' option when dvips-ing TETEXDOC.dvi, the 'fi' ligatures turn into English pound symbols. Further processing of the PS file with gs's ps2pdf doesn't help. Using the '-Pcmz' option avoids this problem. Perhaps I have misunderstood the

Re: xdvi question

2002-07-09 Thread Christopher Pinon
ry in life ... :-) Christopher Pinon

xdvi question

2002-07-08 Thread Christopher Pinon
den). (I won't say how small my screen is, but I can see just to the bottom of the "Previous" button. How many buttons can't I see? :-( ) Thanks, Christopher Pinon

question about adding packages and fonts

2002-05-21 Thread Christopher Pinon
principle, I guess, I could also add a new LaTeX version to my new texmf-tree, but this seems less efficient. (I'm using teTeX 1.0.6 from Debian Potato.) Thanks, Christopher Pinon