Re: dvips-ing TETEXDOC.dvi
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 reason for using '-Ppdf': should it be used only if one intends to immediately distill the PS file with Adobe's Acrobat distiller program? (Since I don't have this program, I can't test whether the resulting PDF file would be OK.) That -Ppdf turn on a feature called character shifting and dvips is not smart enough to detect that this does not work with all fonts. This is fixed in newer version of dvips, but with the old version, you can use -Ppdf -G0. Thomas
dvips-ing TETEXDOC.dvi
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 reason for using '-Ppdf': should it be used only if one intends to immediately distill the PS file with Adobe's Acrobat distiller program? (Since I don't have this program, I can't test whether the resulting PDF file would be OK.) Thanks, Ch. Pinon
Re: dvips-ing TETEXDOC.dvi
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Thomas Esser wrote: That -Ppdf turn on a feature called character shifting and dvips is not smart enough to detect that this does not work with all fonts. This is fixed in newer version of dvips, but with the old version, you can use -Ppdf -G0. It would be helpful to have a more precise definition of newer. I have noticed that Mandrake 9.0 appears to have split their tetex 1.07 package. Although most teTeX 1.07 systems have the older dvips, Mandrake's dvips from tetex-dvips-1.0.7-60mdk.i586.rpm does not exhibit the problem (sorry I don't recall the dvips version that worked -- it is installed on a laptop that is locked up for the night in my office). -- George White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
is entry for omega in fmtutil.in okay?
Hi, I noticed that generated fmtutil.cnf in teTeX-src-beta-20021022.tar.gz contained the entry omega omega -.dat omega.ini It seemed fmtutil complained about -.dat to me. Is -.dat really intentional or typo ? My system is Debian GNU/Linux of unstable (i.e. the latest) version. Best regards, 2002/10/24 -- Debian Developer Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
format files
Hi, I have a metapost file that begins with %latex. I could process this file until teTeX-beta-20021013 (web2c-7.3.8). Now I have to use the commandline option --tex=latex. %latex is ignored and plain TeX is used. Is this desired? I know that sth. like %latex has been problematic in the past, but it worked for me the last few months even though latex was in fact elatex. A year ago that caused trouble, as far as I remember. BTW, it doesn't work now even with latex=latex. Another problem is that tex \latex myfile doesn't work properly. I think that this is a real bug because Knuth said that it should work. Is it difficult to scan the commandline for a \format and, unless there is no --progname option, set --progname=format implicitly? Regards, Reinhard -- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-27060390 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard;kammer.uni-hannover.de Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.
Re: format files
I have a metapost file that begins with %latex. I could process this file until teTeX-beta-20021013 (web2c-7.3.8). Now I have to use the commandline option --tex=latex. %latex is ignored and plain TeX is used. Is this desired? texmf.cnf now has parse_first_line = f to ensure that TeX behaves 100% correct in the default setup. There are several ways to solve your problem: - you can set parse_first_line = t in your texmf.cnf - you can add parse_first_line.mpost = t in your texmf.cnf - you can invoke mpost with parse_first_line=t in the environment ... Another problem is that tex \latex myfile doesn't work properly. What exactly is the problem? I just have successfully tried $ tex \latex small2e This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.9) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/small2e.tex LaTeX2e 2001/06/01 ... Transcript written on small2e.log Thomas
Re: format files
Thomas == Thomas Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another problem is that tex \latex myfile doesn't work properly. What exactly is the problem? I just have successfully tried $ tex \latex small2e This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.9) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/small2e.tex LaTeX2e 2001/06/01 ... Transcript written on small2e.log The problem is that the plain TeX search path is used rather the LaTeX one. No problem with small2e, but generally you must say --progname=latex to get the desired result. And I think that this is tex-k specific. Reinhard -- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-27060390 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard;kammer.uni-hannover.de Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.
Re: is entry for omega in fmtutil.in okay?
From: Thomas Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: is entry for omega in fmtutil.in okay? Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:14:12 +0200 It seemed fmtutil complained about -.dat to me. Hm... I can run fmtutil --all or fmtutil --byfmt omega without any error. What did you do to get a complaint? Well, I am not sure if I could say this as fmtutil complained but it displayed as follows and I guessed it was caused by -.dat for omega. Running initex. This may take some time. ... kpsewhich: unrecognized option `-.dat' Thanks for your reply. Best regards, 2002/10/25 -- Debian Developer Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
Re: is entry for omega in fmtutil.in okay?
From: Thomas Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: is entry for omega in fmtutil.in okay? Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 01:11:40 +0200 Well, I am not sure if I could say this as fmtutil complained but it displayed as follows and I guessed it was caused by -.dat for omega. Running initex. This may take some time. ... kpsewhich: unrecognized option `-.dat' I don't know what you are doing. The strings Running initex and This may take some time are not contained anywhere in the sources of teTeX. What action causes this error? Ah, sorry for my insufficient explanation. I made Debian packages and installed them. The action above was done with their post-installation scripts. In this case, it was done as follows(excerpt); TEXCONFIG_P=/usr/bin/texconfig echo Running initex. This may take some time. ... $TEXCONFIG_P init $TEMPFILE echo Output of initex is in $TEMPFILE so its main action was texconfig init, I believe. I hope this explanation is useful enough for you. Best regards, 2002/10/25 -- Debian Developer Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
Re: is entry for omega in fmtutil.in okay?
so its main action was texconfig init, I believe.
Ah, yes. And that calls fmtutil --all. I was not aware of the fact that
fmtutil --all tries to locate all hyphen setup files using kpsewhich.
This does not make sense and I have fixed this now in fmtutil (even
though the real bug was in fmtutil.cnf).
I hope this explanation is useful enough for you.
Yes, thanks.
Thomas
PS: if anybody is interested, here is the patch.
--- teTeX-src-beta-20021022/texk/tetex/fmtutil Tue Oct 22 23:50:27 2002
+++ teTeX-src-beta/texk/tetex/fmtutil Fri Oct 25 02:29:37 2002
-20,6 +20,7
###
# program history:
+# Fri Oct 25 02:29:06 CEST 2002: now more careful about find_hyphenfile()
# Tue Oct 22 22:46:48 CEST 2002: -jobname, oft extension
# Fri Oct 4 22:33:17 CEST 2002: add more cli stuff: enablefmt
# disablefmt listcfg
-259,6 +260,7
cnf_file=# global variable: full name of the config file
cmd= # desired action from command line
needsCleanup=false
+ need_find_hyphenfile=false
# mktexfmtMode: if called as mktexfmt, set to true. Will echo the generated
# filename after successful generation to stdout then (and nothing else).
-503,7 +505,10
find_hyphenfile()
{
format=$1; hyphenation=$2
- kpsewhich -progname=$format -format=tex $hyphenation
+ case $hyphenation in
+-) ;;
+*) kpsewhich -progname=$format -format=tex $hyphenation;;
+ esac
}
###
-593,7 +598,9
###
check_match()
{
- this_hyphenfile=`find_hyphenfile $format $hyphenation`
+ $need_find_hyphenfile \
+this_hyphenfile=`find_hyphenfile $format $hyphenation`
+
eval $match_cmd setmatch true
}
-638,6 +645,7
{
hyphenfile=$1
+ need_find_hyphenfile=true
match_cmd=test x\$this_hyphenfile = x$hyphenfile
# No match before the loop:
20021025 pretest
Hi, I just have uploaded a new teTeX-beta release which will soon appear on ctan, e.g. ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20021025.tar.gz ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20021025.tar.gz ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmfsrc-beta-20021025.tar.gz or ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20021025.tar.gz ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20021025.tar.gz ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmfsrc-beta-20021025.tar.gz There are a few small fixes and minor improvements, so I thought to make a new pretest: src tarball: * fix typo in texk/web2c/fmtutil.in * don't fail if X11 is not available, just skip xdvik, mfw * update texinfo.tex, adobe.map, typeface.map * add parse_first_line.mpost = t to texmf.in * fix help summary in header of updmap script * fix omega and pdfamstex entries in fmtutil.in * fmtutil no longer looks for hyphen setup files in cases where that information is irrelevant * merge Omega changes from TeX Live * texconfig now copies updmap.cfg to $VARTEXMF texmf tarball: * update texinfo.tex * update hyperref * remove files that are installed by make install by the src tarball * update ConTeXt (2002.10.16) * update *-pl.pool files * update pdftex.def Thomas
