On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:59:18AM -0800, Chris Majewski wrote:
make world, I get could not find app-default file for xdvi. I
You should have unpacked the texmf tarball in
/cs/local/generic/lib/pkg/teTeX-1.0.0/share/texmf
That should have given you (among others) the file
texconfig should no longer try to call fmtutil --byfmt mfw. Doing
so gives
fmtutil: no info for format `mfw'
(but does not cause any harm).
The following patch fixes this.
Thomas
--- 2.0.2/texk/tetex/texconfig Sat Mar 1 10:13:18 2003
+++ texk/tetex/texconfigSat Mar 1 16:05:23 2003
texconfig should no longer try to call fmtutil --byfmt mfw. Doing
so gives
fmtutil: no info for format `mfw'
(but does not cause any harm).
The following patch fixes this.
Thomas
--- 2.0.2/texk/tetex/texconfig Sat Mar 1 10:13:18 2003
+++ texk/tetex/texconfigSat Mar 1 16:05:23 2003
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:53:39AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
It seemed ot1*.enc (ot1.enc, ot1alt.enc, ot1r.enc)
were really missing.
Nothing in (the original) teTeX refers to these files. Correct me if I
am wrong. If something in debian refers to these files, debian should
provide them.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:14:43PM +0100, Miguel Covas O'Ryan wrote:
Now, I have some problems. First of all, I've been unable to use gcc as
ANSI compiler.
configure complains about gcc being unable to generate executable files
(I think the test is
done with flags -g -Aa +e -D_HPUX_SOURCE
instructions) and QuickInstall
(short version).
Thomas Esser, February 2003
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:12:32AM +0100, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
Does it mean that the save button will be removed?
Sorry, a misunderstanding. I had written
the saved settings are not (again) stored in $HOME/.texdocrc .
where I wanted to write
the saved settings are now (again) stored in
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:26:57PM -0500, David R. Morrison wrote:
It looks to me like these were revised at some point, but the Makefile
wasn't updated quite right. The patch below seems to fix it.
I prefer a different fix using symlinks. The files kpsepath.man and
kpsexpand.man can be
The path searched by kpsewhich contains . as its first element, so
$sysrc points to a file texdocrc.defaults in the current working
directory instaed of the real system file.
This is not bad in general, but obviously the value of $sysrc is used
to find the database file as well.
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:04:38AM +0100, Giuseppe Ghibò wrote:
like isn't official euro symbol the \texteuro of textcomp.sty. IMHO the one
provided in font eurosym (feymr10) is enough to provide the euro symbol.
teTeX-2.0 (and later) has eurosym.sty and the metrics and type1 files
for the
%% You are NOT ALLOWED to distribute this file alone. You are NOT ALLOWED
%% to take money for the distribution or use of this file (or a changed
%% version) except for a nominal charge for copying etc.
especially the last sentence is very problematic.
Sure, that makes it unfree.
It is
I am trying to use tetex in BeOS and have managed to compile it making
some small changes that I will post later for reference.
...
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
kpathsea translates search path read from texmf.cnf on unix-like systems
by replacing ; - :. The unix-defection can
--- texk/etc/autoconf/acspecific.m4.orig Mon Feb 3 18:47:42 2003
+++ texk/etc/autoconf/acspecific.m4 Mon Feb 3 18:48:02 2003
@@ -1754,7 +1754,7 @@
#ifdef HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H
#include sys/socket.h
#endif
-extern select
for parts of the texmf tarball (optional):
== tetex-texmfsrc-2.0.1.tar.gz
The installation instructions are included in the tetex-src-2.0.1.tar.gz
archive as files INSTALL (complete instructions) and QuickInstall
(short version).
Thomas Esser, February 2003
We, tetex maintainers of Debian, got the bug which said
that teTeX 2.0 included dvipdfm but a wrapper script
dvipdft was missing (in the teTeX 2.0 source tree).
When I added dvipdfm to teTeX, I have looked at the dvipdft and found
that it writes to /tmp in an insecure way. Then, just before
I've tried to compile current TeTex on Tru64Unix 5.1A with latest
version of compilers from Compaq/HP, and I got the error below. Please, cc
me in any replies.
The fix suggested by Albert Chin looks ok. Olaf Weber (web2c + kpathsea
maintainer) has decided to use % as separator instead as a
configure: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: sys/ptem.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: ## ##
configure:
but now I do not know how to compile and install them.
From ANNOUNCE-2.0 (same directory as the three tar files):
The installation instructions are included in the tetex-src.tar.gz
archive as files INSTALL (complete instructions) and QuickInstall
(short version).
Do you need help to
If I try to compile the www library in a linux (redhat-8.0) system,
there is a header that is missing. I added an
#include netdb.h
configure checks for netdb.h and sets HAVE_NETDB_H in wwwconf.h.
Please, check if this has worked on your system. Look into config.cache
(in libs/libwww) if
+# History:
+# Tue Apr 9 22:46:34 CEST 2002, te:
+# do not create symlinks for cont-??, metafun and mptopdf
This is IMHO a bad idea, if one enables a format he/she wants
to use it.
ConTeXt supports these formats by its helper scripts, e.g. texexec and
mptopdf (both wrappers to
and changing this to:
parse_first_line = t
would make things work again.
Sure, but I suggest to give the user a real TeX by default. If he
wants to change this default, that's his decision...
Further, he advised to add to the beginning of /usr/bin/makempx
parse_first_line=t
older version of tetex. With tetex 1.0 running on my Linux box, I'm not
sure how best to upgrade to version 2.0. I've read FAQ point 16 on
It depends... Where does your teTeX-1.0 come from (rpm from your Linux
distribution, or self-installed)? Do you plan to use the new release
in parallel wih
Bob Tennent notified by, that updmap (in teTeX-2.0) generates wrong
output for the map files of cm-super for dvipdfm. The following patch
should fix this (and other cases where the name of the .enc file contains
characters other than [A-Za-z0-9]).
Thomas
--- updmap-2.0 Sat Feb 1 18:57:18 2003
fun!
Thomas Esser, February 2003
I'm sharing format, pool and base files between a sparc64 (32-bit
userspace) box and an i386 box --- or I was; but between 20021225 and
-rc1, the byte-order independence of these files has broken, even
without NO_DUMP_SHARE; all .base, .fmt. .efmt and .mem files differ
between those platforms
fun!
Thomas Esser, February 2003
fixed the problem. I recommend upgrading all config.guess/config.sub
files in the tree.
Done, thanks.
I'm also testing on Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, Redhat Linux, and AIX. I'm
out for the rest of the day but will continue tomorrow.
Good. omega is known to be broken due to obsolete files in the
1) Would it be possible to have a configure option to use the xpdf libraries
already installed on the system? (We package them already in Fink.)
It is quite late for that request (the release is planned for this
weekend). Do you mean that you have libxpdf.a (resp. .so) and libGoo.a
(resp. so)
doing that (you might need to mark changes in some way or
rename modifies files and some files might only be distributed
together with other files)
If you find any file that violates any of these conditions, please report
that to me.
February, 2003, Thomas Esser
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
the licenses if you do that
If you find any file that violates any of these conditions, please report
that to me.
February, 2003, Thomas Esser
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
this is the second release candidate for teTeX-2.0. I have put the files to
my server, but they'll soon be available for download at CTAN:
ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/2.0/distrib/tetex-src-2.0-rc1.tar.gz
* texbook.tex / mfbook.tex removed (license, argh!)
Definitely the right thing to do. If you have found them on CTAN in a
location outside of the nonfree tree, you should notify the CTAN
maintainers: it would be definitely not nice to Addison Wesley and
Knuth to suggest by a bad
Could anybody tell me how to instruct dvips
to use bluesky fonts instead of the standard
Computer Modern fonts?
The following works with standard teTeX-1.0. I don't know if this is
different in RedHat's version...
cd `kpsewhich -expand-var='$TEXMFMAIN'`/dvips/config
vi updmap # or use a
I am a Japanese pTeX on teTeX user. I use TeXShop and dvipdfm
program to compile TeX and preview on my Mac OS X, which needs
reencode files for computer modern fonts which are remapped by
dvipdfm.
Can you please explain, why you think that you need reencoding for all
fonts in the bsr set?
Hi,
Karl Berry plans a new pretest of texinfo and a new release just in
time for teTeX-2.0. There will be an announce (by Karl) about that new
texinfo-pretest very soon.
If you have the possibility/time, please, test this texinfo pretest and
report any bug / problem.
Thomas
[added Tomas Rokicki to the recepients, throwing him into this
discussion]
Hi,
-o |lpr no longer works, because the default config file of dvips now
correctly sets secure mode on. Secure mode can be turned off by putting
z0 into a config file for dvips or by specifying -R0 on the commandline
I am one of tetex maintainers of Debian and we got a bug report
that please include pdftosrc in tetex-bin
I see. pdftosrc was even included in good-old-teTeX-1.0... I have
just added
@PTEX@pdftosrc = pdftosrc
...tie $(ttf2afm) $(pdftosrc) ...
to texk/web2c/Makefile.in. Seems that this is
Don't see the necessity. root filters (like in line spoolers) are
run in separate directories and with command line options specified
by the filter programmer.
Full ACK. Whoever writes such a filter should know what he is doing and
put something like an explicit -f or -o argument into the
Sorry to ask this again but is there any rough
plan when teTeX 2.0 will be released?
Hopefully in some days. My plan is to wait for pdftex-1.10a and that's
not yet released.
I heard once that it would be near the end of 2002
but it is 2003 already ;)
The beginning of 2003 is near the end of
trees, one for the original teTeX and one for ptex. I'd rather unify
these two, if possible --- this will also simplify the situation for
users who require access to both trees, and save me some support
time.
Your users should not notice much of the separation into two trees if
you set up
i've looked over the list of supported teTeX platforms at the above link,
but none of them corresponds to my platform, which is X86/cygwin .
do you support the cygwin platform, or are the cygwin people responsible
for that?
Yes, teTeX for cygwin can be downloaded at various cygwin sites.
sortid.c: In function `sort_idx':
sortid.c:53: `LC_COLLATE' undeclared (first use in this function)
sortid.c:53: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
...
Willem Jan Palenstijn has found the reason for this and submitted
a patch:
From what I can tell, it's caused by checks for
I noticed that in teTeX-texmf-beta-20021225.tar.gz
bsr-interpolated.map bsr.map seemed missing.
$ tar ztvf /t/src/archiv/teTeX-texmf-beta-20021225.tar.gz '*/bsr*.map'
-rw-r--r-- te/users 6958 2002-12-25 15:05:25 ./dvips/tetex/bsr.map
-rw-r--r-- te/users 2315 2002-12-25 15:14:37
Building the most recent teTeX (tetex-src-1.0.7.tar.gz) on our OpenBSD
Sparc server proceeded without problems. When I tried to add support
for our FreeBSD i386 platforms by mounting the proper directories on the
freebsd platform, logging in there and doing:
Thanks for your bug report.
Since
Hi,
I just have uploaded a new teTeX-beta release which will soon appear on ctan, e.g.
ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20021225.tar.gz
ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20021225.tar.gz
are the xdelta files wrong, or they are correct, and you just renamed
the texms and texmfsrc tarballs after making xdeltas?
Thanks for checking. Yes, I have just renamed the two tarballs after
creating the deltas. So, this time, everything should be ok.
Thomas
Hi,
I just have uploaded a new teTeX-beta release which will soon appear on ctan, e.g.
ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20021221.tar.gz
or
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20021221.tar.gz
This again is another sync
Hi,
I just have uploaded a new teTeX-beta release which will soon appear on ctan, e.g.
ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20021216.tar.gz
or
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20021216.tar.gz
This again is another sync
We have the following bugfix for the 20021216 pretest. I don't want to
make a new release just because of that (on the other hand, I don't want
to let you be uninformed about this bug, too). The file exists in the
texk/kpathsea directory.
Thomas
diff -u -r1.13 -r1.14
--- tex-make.c 14 Dec 2002
Vladimir, thanks for reporting this so quickly.
Thomas
Hi,
I just have uploaded a new teTeX-beta release which will soon appear on
ctan, e.g.
ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20021210.tar.gz
or
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20021210.tar.gz
This just fixes the image
checking host system type... Invalid configuration
`hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.00': machine `hppa2.0w-hp' not recognized
For the current teTeX-beta, I just have updated the relevant config.sub /
config.guess files from the gnu server. That hopefully fixes this problem.
So, you can try if today's
I want to use the Euro-character in LaTeX. Therefore I tried to install
the europs.sty package under teTeX in Mac OS X, but without success.
teTeX-beta includes the eurosym package for more than two months now.
You can try this if your Mac OS X port of teTeX already includes that
package.
BTW, wouln't it be practical to have dvi files of the standard TeX
programs (Knuth's tangle, weave (webman), dvitype,...) in the
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/doc directory for reference?
I can recommend everyone who really wants to read the weave-output to
run pdftex instead of tex on these
I installed some local additions to the system wide texmf tree in
~~/texmf. In order to have latex pick that stuff up, I set $TEXMF to
{$HOME/texmf,!!$TEXMFMAIN//,!!$TEXMFLOCAL//}. That results in:
You should make this
{$HOME/texmf,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFLOCAL}
warning: kpathsea: variable
It is a well-known problem that there are quite a few TeX versions
are around where -src-specials will cause the equivalent of
\usepackage{indentfirst}, namely causing chapter beginnings and the
like under LaTeX to be indented.
I think that teTeX-beta never had this bug. It was introduced by
Is it just me or are others getting duplicate messages from the
list? Thomas, can you take care of this problem? Thanks.
No, it is not just you. I have found out, that the duplicate messages
are being send via btamail.net.cn back to the list. Thus, I have just
unsubscribed all (two) adresses
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.1) (base=mf 2002.11.8) 14
NOV 2002 16:58
**\mode:=ljfzzzfr; mag:=1+57/600; nonstopmode; input cmsy10
...
! This can't happen (m).
Your metafont binary does not work properly. Can you try to recompile
metafont with no or less optimitation?
Thomas
When we say that the character shifting issue has been corrected,
do we mean that
dvips -Ppdf ... without either -G or -G0,
now works for computer modern, adobe postscript, and combinations of them?
Is that right?
It means that -G1 (as set e.g. via -Ppdf) does no longer produce
I downloaded tetex-src-1.0.7.tar.gz, ran './configure --prefix=$HOME'
and then 'make'. The compilation halted part way through with
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I.. -I./.. -g -O2 -c x11.c
x11.c:19: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
x11.c:20: X11/Intrinsic.h: No such
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
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
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
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
Well, I've been trying to create PDF from a .texi document where makeinfo and
texi2html work fine. But, texi2pdf always fails. I'm attaching the document
which is part of the emacs package ESS as an example. Any help would be
appreciated. Thanks.
That seems to be an invalid texinfo
I'm having an install problem. I'm on linux-mandrake 8.2 and have gcc
v2.96.
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DKPATHSEA -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -g -O2 -c gsftopk.c
gsftopk.c:409: redefinition of `struct option'
Where is struct option defined for the first time?
Thomas
CTAN. It compiled here under debian Linux/Pentium II without problems.
The package does not automatically work on 64bit platforms. Anyway,
this is easy to fix using GNU autoconf. In short: I'll think about
including it, but no promisse now...
Thomas
Hi,
dante does not yet have the new files (uploaded today at about 4:20
a.m. local time). They are, however, available at the cam.ctan.org:
ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20021013.tar.gz
teTeX-src-beta-20020922
teTeX-texmf-beta-20021006
...
The following are missing from the list given in INSTALL:
cont-en
metafun
These should no longer be called directly. texexec supports them better.
The list in INSTALL is wrong and I'll fix that.
iniomega lambda mkocp mkofm odvicopy
Dear David,
I found that the following ditty which in earlier incarnations of my
system just died almost immediately with a Segmentation Fault, will
under current 2.4 Linux kernels under, say, RedHat's (null) beta,
cause the machine to more or less freeze:
tex '\def~{\if~}~'
My system
Hi,
I just have uploaded a new teTeX-beta release:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20020911.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20020911.tar.gz
Differences from previous release:
src tarball:
*
Just wanted to let you know that the fancybox documentation obtained
by running latex on the fancybox.doc file is missing from tetex.
You have reported this quite some time ago and I have added the missing
fancydoc.dvi file. There has not been a stable teTeX release since,
only new teTeX-beta
Hi Reinhard,
running make world I got the message
...
Error: `tex -ini -fmt=dklatex -progname=dklatex dklatex.ini' failed
...
The message says that I have to update my format file but what I do
not understand is why texconfig init dklatex works without any error
messages.
And the LaTeX
Hi,
I just have uploaded a new teTeX-beta release, which will sonn be
available for download at:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20020906.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20020906.tar.gz
This works. Thanks.
Good to know.
Does make -j2 work?
Yes. When compiling in texk/web2c, only one CPU will be used, however
(a .NOTPARALLEL prevents make -j2 from failing there).
Thomas
Hi,
I just have uploaded a new teTeX-beta release. It will soon be available
for download at:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20020905.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20020905.tar.gz
when configured to use the Adobe Base 35 fonts updmap erroneously maps
the fonts from the phv*8an family to Helvetica-Condensed instead of
Helvetica-Narrow. I have included a patch for updmap below.
Whow! Thanks a lot for spotting this one! How silly of me to assume that
simple u - p
Hi,
I have uploaded a new teTeX-beta release, which will soon appear here:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20020901.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20020901.tar.gz
Main differences from previous release:
this problem? I'd always thought that exit x should set $? to x on all
platforms.
I guess that the systems in question don't show rc=0 when executing the
following code:
/bin/sh -c trap 'echo rc=\$?; exit \$rc' 0; false; exit 0
On Linux with bash and with the /bin/sh on Sun Solaris 2.7, I
but when doing
./configure --disable-a4 --prefix=/usr/local/teTeX-2.0
--disable-multiplatform
...
running `pdfetex -ini -efmt=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini' ...
(/usr/local/teTeX-2.0/share/texmf/tex/context/base/math-tex.tex
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash
Thomas Anders wrote:
compiling teTeX-src-beta-20020530 on Tru64 Unix 5.0A PK3
using Compaq compilers (cc -std1) fails
While we're at it: make distclean fails with Tru64's stock
/usr/bin/make:
foo# make clean
[...]
cd ../../../libs/xpdf make clean
Make: Don't know how to make clean.
Trying to compile on Solaris/SPARC 7, under gcc-3.1,
in xdvik get:
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -I../../libs/libwww -I./../../libs/libwww
-DHAVE_LIBWWW -DHAVE_WWWLIB_H -I../../libs/t1lib -I./../../libs/t1lib
-I../../libs/t1lib/../type1 -I./../../libs/t1lib/../type1 -DPS_GS
I guess xdvik should try to mimick teTeX's defaults as close as
possible (because most people installing xdvik will already have
teTeX installed).
Well, the xdvik in teTeX does not install any map or config file nor
does it install the app-default file. If you want to follow, you need
to add
I don't use the beta release myself, but ca. 2 weeks ago Thomas Esser has
informed me about the structure of a very recent release, possibly the
30-5-2002 one. I have the thrown together the database halfway and can fix
something up soon for preliminary use.
That's right. The 30-5-2002
texdoc-103.dat
Description: Binary data
Addendum: After some more digging, the culprit has been found to
be t1lib 1.0.1, which doesn't even make an attempt at
understanding dvips-style .enc files. From t1lib/CHANGES:
Thanks for finding this.
Thomas
Hi Reinhard,
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/dtp --with-mfw=mf make world
`mfw -ini -base=mfw -progname=mfw mf.ini' failed
Obviously the binary mfw is missing.
...
I wonder whether an interactive menue should appear during the
installation process at all.
To solve this, I suggest to run
TeX Live has:
% These are pdftex-specific.
obj_tab_size = 20 % PDF objects
dest_names_size=30 % destinations
Well, I have taken this to sync all array sizes with texlive. I don't
have taken settings for xmltex, jadetex stc. which are not part of teTeX,
however.
To solve this, I suggest to run fmtutil --all instead of
texconfig init. fmtutil will never be interactive.
It was called by make install.
Sure. My suggestion was ment to be implemented by changing Makefile.in.
It is probably sufficient to check whether there is an entry for mfw
Could you please add teTeX-src-beta-20020402-20020530.xdelta to
ftp tree?
An oversight, sorry. It is now on my server and will be mirrored to the
other sites.
Thomas
I am thinking over the problem of maintaining a complex TeX system with
several TDS trees (on a Unix computer), looking at documentation such as
One main question to answer is the degree of integration into the linux
system. Sure, you can split teTeX into several directories, e.g. put
config
Hi,
I am pleased to announce a new teTeX pretest release. Download from
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20020530.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20020530.tar.gz
Now that the latest tex-live release is practically on its way out the
door, can we expect a corresponding teTeX release?
No, not a 100% corresponding release. I have the -G1 fix for dvips and
the downgrade update for Omega (1.15 is the best version currently
available, the TeX Live version is
No, not a 100% corresponding release. I have the -G1 fix for dvips and
the downgrade update for Omega (1.15 is the best version currently
available, the TeX Live version is not that stable).
What is the -G1 fix for dvips?
The -G1 option in dvips (can be activated on the commandline or in
Which softwares has bugs that make character-switching necessary?
I am not the expert on this, but the things I know are Acrobat Reader
(don't know exactly when they fixed that bug, but version 3.x are broken)
and Adobe Illustrator.
I, for another reason, updated to the latest teTeX beta
what's the story behind --with-cxx-runtime-hack being a default configure
option (at least in beta-20020402)? From reading texk/web2c/configure
I see that it causes libstdc++ to be linked statically which may make sense
for a binary distribution, but IMHO not for custom installations from
If I su to my home directory from root (or su to root from my home dir), then
texexec gives the error
Don't do
su userid
Better do
su - userid
That su without - just gives you a shell which initialy inheritares
environment variables from the root shell. E.g. HOME will not be set
to
1. I can't get my path commands to stick. When I issue
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux
I have to reissue it each time I log in and sometimes more often. I have
issued this command as root, and the problem still wont go away;
environment variables are only passed to child processes
avail. Clicking on it gives
Couldn't find the program 'oxdvi''
What happens if you start a shell and type
/usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux/oxdvi -version
in it?
BTW: what do you mean by Clicking on it? Which application are you
using to start oxdvi by Clicking on it?
Thomas
while upgrading my SuSE 7.3 to SuSE 8.0 the tetex rpm was upgraded from
1.0.7-285 to beta.20020207-70. Now the problem seems to be that in that new
...
Now my question is: Has cmbright been removed from tetex? (If yes, why?) How
can I get that package and include it in my tex installation?
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