framed.sty, documentation...
Hello: A few minor (and possibly premature) observations, questions and requests about the current tetex beta: -- I would like to suggest the inclusion of framed.sty by Donald Arseneau in teTeX; it's license is ok as far as I can tell and can be found together with the scarce but adequate documentation at the beginning of framed.sty. I don't know of an alternative to its capabilities (framed and shaded backgrounds to text that can continue beyond page breaks) and looks like the kind of package which although seldom used may become handy to any LaTeX user sooner or later. -- shouldn't pdfpages be under $TEXMF/tex/pdlatex instead of $TEXMF/tex/latex? -- is $TEXMF/doc/indexnew.html going to be updated or replaced by something different? -- if $TEXMF/doc/indexnew.html is going to be updated can its link to local documentation be somewhere at the top of the page? -- I have a png antialiased and only slightly larger version of the teTeX logo used in indexnew.html; it can be obtained from http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/texmf.local/doc/tetex.png if Thomas or Keith Refson wish to use it. -- João Palhoto Matos http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~jmatos Departamento de Matemática Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvips/bluesky/bakoma/type1 fonts/frustration
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Nik Ingle wrote: I hope this is a good place for this message, as I saw hints of similar problems in the archives. I am running tetex-dvips-1.0.7-7.i386.rpm on a RH7 installation I am trying to get dvips to use type1 fonts so that ps2pdf generates good (scalable) pdf files. I have been successful with dvips 5.78 on my Suns, but am hitting a brick wall with dvips 5.86 on linux. 1) In theory I can use dvips -Ppdf and the type1 fonts should be used, but my pdf output looks lousy. 2) I download the cm bluesky font stuff from CTAN and make a font map file, tell dvips to use it and now all I get in my pdf file is courier fonts. They look good, but they are courier only! 3) I download the bakoma font stuff from CTAN, make a font map file, tell divps to use it and I get an ERROR in encoding error. 4) I change my font map file to use instead of for the bakoma fonts, and I no longer get the ERROR in encoding error, but the pdf output is lousy. Can anyone tell me what is going on? thanks Nik Hello, You need Ghostscript 6.xx or later. There is a Ghostscript 6.50 rpm from RedHat in one of their RawHide series. Sadly Ghostscript 5.50 is what one gets from RedHat 7.1 probably to assure a bigger set of printer drivers. You don't need to patch teTeX as described. If you want to change teTeX (due to some other reason) probably a better starting point is the teTeX beta (not available as rpm as far as I know). Getting a Ghostscript that solves your problem and supports your printer drivers may be a problem depending on your particular circunstances. There are Ghostscript rpms (for RedHat 7.x) from the Ghostscript developers that will install under /usr/local and zap whatever /usr/bin/gs is around. But then you discover that they were compiled for a small set of printer drivers... There is a known problem with Ghostscript 7.00 with respect to tetex (more precisely gsftopk). Getting the distribution from CVS at sourceforge or from Paul Vojta's web page and compiling it solves that. Ghostscript has a GNU license up to 6.5* and an Aladdin license for 7.* if that is an issue with you. Coexistence on the same host of two versions of ghostscript is probably doable but currently seems to be beyond my time and patience. Compiling GS 7.* with support for the HP ink jet drivers also... Good luck! -- João Palhoto Matos http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~jmatos Departamento de Matemática Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: now I think this is a bug
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Thomas Esser wrote: This glibc is a very recent version. So, the rest of your system is likely to be very "bleeding edge", too? Well, I suspect that we run into some compiler bug here... Thomas Hi again: This is the same problem I had reported on some time ago. It's probably a gcc 2.96 bug and simply affects libkpathsea.a (and any binaries dependent on this). Probably one can bypass it by replacing libkpathsea.a by a version compiled on a RH 6.2 system (egcs-2.91.66) and "make clean; make" in the affected directories. For me it worked for xdvi. I don't have the time or knowledge to investigate this further. One can get a feeling for gcc 2.96 problems by reading for instance http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk00/2750.html -- João Palhoto Matos http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~jmatos Departamento de Matemática Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
dvired/hyperref/dvips problem
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Hi:
I am enclosing a trivial example of a problem with the
dvired script (or with dvips, or with hyperref).
---
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[dvips]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
Some text.
\pagebreak
More text.
\end{document}
---
Processing this with latex followed by
dvired -o testered.ps teste
one obtains the following error
Running `Other' on `teste' with ``dvired -o testered.ps
teste''
This is dvips(k) 5.86d Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software
(www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2000.07.03:1422' -
dvips: both landscape and papersize specified: ignoring
landscape
duplong.cfgtexc.prospecial.pro. [1] [2]
Removing a4paper from the options or removing the dvips
option from the hyperref package invocation clears the
problem but prevents creating *.pdf documents in A4 format
and hyperlinks using the dvi - ps - pdf route available if
one uses gs 6.x. If one uses psfrag (which prevents using
pdflatex) I don't know of any free option to obtain such
documents.
Software versions:
-- the latest teTeX beta including
dvips(k) 5.86d
dvired 0.3
hyperref v6.69c
--
João Palhoto Matos
http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~jmatos
Departamento de Matemática
Instituto Superior Técnico
Lisboa
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
