Re: listings.sty removed ?

2003-02-15 Thread David Kastrup
in my assessment, I'll be glad to here just where. But in my opinion I really am unable to see right now where the problem is. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Broken pipe, teTeX dvips, Redhat linux

2003-02-13 Thread David Kastrup
Psyche or Rawhide. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: How can I instruct dvips to use outline fonts instead of the CM ones?

2003-01-31 Thread David Kastrup
fine, but the result is not so good as with pdflatex... Then your font map files for dvips are not appropriate for the set of fonts you have installed. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o |lpr

2003-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
as the target file. I just don't get it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o |lpr

2003-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
in the same place specify output to /etc/passwd. I hope you get my point why I think config files should not be looked for in `.'. That would be great, indeed. I plan to release teTeX-2.0, soon (now that pdftex-1.10a *final* is out). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o |lpr

2003-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
something into his home directory where all sorts of configuration files are kept, TeX security is the least worry of the user. How about retricting the panicking to those cases where a user is acting in a remotely sane manner? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o |lpr

2003-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
place (. or below or so). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o |lpr

2003-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
by the filter programmer. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: texhash

2003-01-13 Thread David Kastrup
that. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Quick question regarding -src-specials

2002-11-30 Thread David Kastrup
manner? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Stack size limit?

2002-09-12 Thread David Kastrup
is not reading the pretest list. -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-32-25570 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-32-14209 Institut für Neuroinformatik, Universitätsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany

Re: Omega+teTeX

2002-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
enough to provide a useful release. And that also means you. If you think I sound like a complete ***, this may be just because I am, but that does not change the principal problem. -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-32-25570 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax

Re: 2002-08-25 pretest

2002-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
think you yourself are the best judge about what version of Omega might be the most appropriate for you. Get and compile that. Anyway, I think it's very sad seeing Omega removed from teTeX for what may be an indefinite period of time. How about telling that to the Omega developers? -- David

Re: texexec teTeX

2002-05-27 Thread David Kastrup
console works if I don't su anywhere. I have installed the following in /etc/profile.d/texsetup.sh (based on advice from David Kastrup): case :$PATH: in *:/usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux:*) ;; *) PATH=/usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux:$PATH esac This is executed in login shells, but nowhere else. One

Re: config woes

2002-05-26 Thread David Kastrup
like /etc/profile.d on most systems. Put a file of your own in there, something like mytexsetup.sh and write the lines above in there. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: config woes

2002-05-26 Thread David Kastrup
Greg Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Kastrup wrote: | Ok, that settles .profile. Now why is your advice bad, bad, bad for | the system-wide configuration, as well? Because we nowadays have | Linux distributions that can be upgraded. And /etc/profile is sure to | be under

Re: config woes

2002-05-26 Thread David Kastrup
whether the executable in its first line actually exists at the specified location. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: inverting ps/pdf

2002-04-24 Thread David Kastrup
have not tried yet myself, but it certainly won't be much of a replacement for previewers). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Avoiding dvi files

2002-03-24 Thread David Kastrup
for this, and of course there are dozens of TeX environments around that do things like this. However, I thought I'd read of some version of tex which did produce ps files directly. Maybe it's a commercial version or something. pdflatex perhaps? PDF nowadays is mostly as ubiquitous as PostScript. -- David

Re: Avoiding dvi files

2002-03-23 Thread David Kastrup
. Is there some overwhelming reason to use pdf instead of ps? For printing, no, for electronic distribution of documents, yes. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no french spacing please

2002-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
. Please use the Usenet group comp.text.tex for that. Apart from that, you are confused: American spacing (\nonfrenchspacing) makes larger spaces after periods, one uses \frenchspacing when one does not want it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tetex on aix help

2002-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
that, or you have played arond with the symbolic links of executables. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reformatting section heads

2002-02-10 Thread David Kastrup
from the archive due to copyright reasons. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems with eurofont tfm-Files

2002-02-04 Thread David Kastrup
with gsftopk again is GhostScript 7.03, the current version is 7.04. Since 7.04 has been out only for few days, I cannot say anything about it, but I would guess it is not worse than 7.03. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: latex/pdflatex page size in teTeX

2002-01-31 Thread David Kastrup
, and use one of the above mentioned packages that then inform pdftex of the user's choice of letterpaper (LaTeX's default). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pdflatex and tipa fonts - works

2002-01-20 Thread David Kastrup
, with most file system layouts, /usr/local/share/texmf is a better place for it than /usr/share/texmf.local). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2001/12/02 pretest

2002-01-20 Thread David Kastrup
things that I plan to do first. A stable teTeX will not happen before the next web2c release (teTeX-beta currently contains a web2c test release). While we are being nosy... Are there any plans to include Type1 versions of the EC fonts, like cmsuper or so? Or has this already happened? -- David

Re: Search paths

2002-01-13 Thread David Kastrup
since in his current directory there *is* no file with a name identical to that of the now excluded file in the search tree. Reverting to an extensionless file should be done really only as a last resort, in my opinion. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Type 1 Fonts

2002-01-10 Thread David Kastrup
this, but none are specific enough to allow me to accomplish this. Is there anyone with the time and patience who can walk me through this? I have a Sun Ultra 5 running SunOS 5.8, teTeX version 0.4 You install a less ancient teTeX and use dvips -Ppdf -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793

Re: finally: new texmf tarball (beta-20011128)

2001-12-02 Thread David Kastrup
. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CM-Super package released

2001-09-20 Thread David . Kastrup
Vladimir == Vladimir Volovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vladimir if ß in CM has the same metric values, i could replace it in the Vladimir CM-Super fonts. It has. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: \jobname

2001-07-19 Thread David Kastrup
. David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-32-25570 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-32-14209 Institut für Neuroinformatik, Universitätsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany

Re: Typesetting tables in LaTeX

2001-01-22 Thread David Kastrup
d be part of the TeX Catalogue which is part of the teTeX documentation. David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-32-25570 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-32-14209 Institut fr Neuroinformatik, Universittsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany

Re:

2000-07-05 Thread David Kastrup
You'll get the necessary information. David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-32-25570 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-32-14209 Institut für Neuroinformatik, Universitätsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany

Re: TeX Capacity exceeded with package listings

2000-04-04 Thread David Kastrup
t 300 repeated parts) of the resulting log file. David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-32-25570 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-32-14209 Institut f=FCr Neuroinformatik, Universit=E4tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germa= ny

Re: (pdf)latex.fmt not found

2000-03-11 Thread David Kastrup
information, guesses they will remain) turn out to be wrong. David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-32-25570 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-32-14209 Institut für Neuroinformatik, Universitätsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany

Re: texmf.cnf

2000-03-02 Thread David Kastrup
with which the format file has been generated. He will most probably need to generate his own format files to go with his texmf.cnf settings, or adapt a few changed settings from the newly changed 1.0.9 texmf.cnf file. It might also be that some missing sizes are making tex give up. -- David