teTeX-2.0.2: another texconfig fix

2003-03-01 Thread Thomas Esser
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

teTeX-beta-20030228

2003-02-28 Thread Thomas Esser
Hi, while I maintain fixes for teTeX-2.0, the development for the next version has already started. Olaf Weber has released web2c-7.5.[012] and made the move to libtool, adopted Knuth's latest tex.web and included eomega. Other than Olaf's changes, this beta is at the level of teTeX-2.0.2. >From

Re: teTeX-2.0.1

2003-02-17 Thread Thomas Esser
> --- 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 > #endif > -extern select >($ac_cv_func_select_arg1,$ac_cv_func_select_arg234,$ac_cv_func_sele

teTeX-2.0.1

2003-02-15 Thread Thomas Esser
texmf-2.0.1.tar.gz sources 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

Re: texinfo configure bug

2003-02-15 Thread Thomas Esser
> I found a bug in the texinfo configure script, causing the test for > for library with termcap variables always to fail. Here's a patch. I don't get it. How can this work without ; after UP++ ? So, after adding that ; and the [...] in configure.ac and running ./configure; make; make distclea

Re: mpost problem

2003-02-04 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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 >

updmap + cm-super

2003-02-03 Thread Thomas Esser
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 +

Re: teTeX-2.0

2003-02-03 Thread Thomas Esser
> what's the reason that you changed file names of the archives and > of the toplevel directory from teTeX-src-2.0 to tetex-src-2.0 > only about two days before release in rc2 ? A challenge for people who depend on these names :-) > I really like and try seeing TeX not being spelled "tex" -- and

teTeX-2.0

2003-02-02 Thread Thomas Esser
rg/ http://www.pragma-ade.com/ Have fun! Thomas Esser, February 2003

Re: Possible byte-order problems in TeX format files with -rc1

2003-02-02 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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 platf

Re: texmfsrc LICENSE

2003-02-01 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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 th

Re: texmfsrc LICENSE

2003-02-01 Thread Thomas Esser
> I'd like to see it at the toplevel, under a different name. It's > easier to find this way. Good idea. I will now name the three license files according to their tarball: LICENSE.src LICENSE.texmf and LICENSE.texmfsrc. The file LICENSE.texmfsrc will not start with: The files within the source

Re: teTeX-2.0 - second release candidate

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Esser
> > * 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

teTeX-2.0 - second release candidate

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Esser
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 ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/2.0/distrib

LICENSE for src tarball

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Esser
k 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]

texmfsrc LICENSE

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Esser
I plan to put the texmf license into source/LICENSE in the texmfsrc tarball. I don't want to put the file to the toplevel, because it would overwrite the texmf LICENSE when unpacked. Good idea? Comments welcome. Thomas

suggested license for texmf tree; comments?

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Esser
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]

Re: teTeX-2.0-rc1: make vs. $(MAKE)

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Esser
> this version does not compile cleanly at least on HP-UX, AIX, AXP OSF1 and FreeBSD > because sometimes the native "make" will fail for sophisticated makefiles. > they all break with messages similar to this one That bug in pdftex.mk was reported before. If is already fixed in my sources. > -

Re: teTeX-2.0-rc1: two requests

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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. s

Re: epsf.tex

2003-01-26 Thread Thomas Esser
> epsf.tex is in texmf/tex/plain/dvips but I think that it should be in > texmf/generic. Right. I don't think that it is less "generic" than epsfx.tex :-) Thanks, Thomas

texinfo pretest

2003-01-24 Thread Thomas Esser
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

Re: teTeX-2.0-rc1: Small compilation gotcha under Irix and gnu make

2003-01-21 Thread Thomas Esser
> with the "make" hardcoded in. Unfortunately, the environment variables being Thank's bad. Thanks for reporting. Thomas

teTeX-2.0-rc1

2003-01-19 Thread Thomas Esser
Hi, this is the first 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 ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/2.0/distrib/

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o "|lpr"

2003-01-19 Thread Thomas Esser
Dear Akira, > I have understood you. Sorry for my ignorance! You are welcome. I never felt offended by what you have said. It was good that you have given a precise example. That showed me that we were not speaking about the same thing (you about backquote specials in dvi files, me about .gz fil

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o "|lpr"

2003-01-19 Thread Thomas Esser
> \DeclareGraphicsRule{.eps.gz}{eps}{.bb}{`gunzip -c #1} This does not work and this is ok in secure mode. I have written, that compressed graphics work *if the inclusion is done in the right way*. --- $ cat x.tex \docu

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o "|lpr"

2003-01-19 Thread Thomas Esser
> > Good to know that the compile-time configuration for running uncompress, > > gzip -d and bzip2 -d still work in secure mode. > > This does not (and should not) work in secure mode. > One has to use -R0 option. > Tomas has allowed "output pipe" in secure mode. This does work in secure mode. I

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o "|lpr"

2003-01-19 Thread Thomas Esser
> Okay, so if we agree the solution is: [...] Great, great! I just have found the new version in the perforce source tree and updated teTeX-beta. It is good to see that compressed graphics in secure mode work, if the inclusion is done in the right way. Using a teTeX-0.4 setup (for latex, not dvi

Re: updmap temporary files

2003-01-18 Thread Thomas Esser
> the function dvips2dvipdfm() in updmap creates a temporary file > /tmp/file1-$$ but no attempt is made do delete this file afterwards. That's just an oversight. I am using $tmp8 now. Thanks, Thomas --- teTeX-src-beta-20030112/texk/tetex/updmap Thu Jan 2 23:14:59 2003 +++ teTeX-src-beta/tex

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o "|lpr"

2003-01-16 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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 c

Re: pdftosrc and texmf.in problem?

2003-01-16 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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

Re: 20021225 pretest

2003-01-16 Thread Thomas Esser
> that will make dvips-generated PS files a bit bigger (if the explicit > encoding is used in dvips map file too) - so just a thought: maybe > it's possible to have sriver-sprcific source map files (from which > driver-specific final map files are generated)? e.g. there may be a Well, sure, such t

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o "|lpr"

2003-01-16 Thread Thomas Esser
> That's a very good point; if the *user* specifices -o "|..." that > *should* override the security setting. Good, we agree here. > What if the -o option comes from a config file; should that override > the security setting? In secure mode, dvips should not trust the dvi file. I don't see why d

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o "|lpr"

2003-01-16 Thread Thomas Esser
[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 (

Re: When teTeX 2.0 will be released?

2003-01-13 Thread Thomas Esser
> > Hopefully in some days. My plan is to wait for pdftex-1.10a and that's > > not yet released. > > Do you plan to wait also for knuth TeX Version 3.141592 and METAFONT Version > 2.71828 as they are announced as near? Assuming, that pdftex will be released in a few days, I am not going to defer

20030112 pretest

2003-01-11 Thread Thomas Esser
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-20030112.tar.gz ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20030112.tar.gz ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archiv

Re: When teTeX 2.0 will be released?

2003-01-07 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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

20030107 pretest

2003-01-07 Thread Thomas Esser
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-20030107.tar.gz ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20030107.tar.gz ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archiv

Re: A mislocated tfm?

2002-12-27 Thread Thomas Esser
> why (in the latest tetex texmf) exists the file > /fonts/tfm/adobe/times/psyro.tfm ? One character of that font is used by zptmcm7m. > If it is Adobe Symbol Slanted metrics, why is it > the times directory? Maybe, because the metrics of psyro.tfm are just needed for zptmcm7m? > BTW. Is psyro

Re: supp-pdf.tex's problem

2002-12-27 Thread Thomas Esser
> and does anyone in the pdftex community have any idea of how ctan > might keep up-to-date with these files as they develop? or does the I think that ctan already mirrors Hans context and context-beta. From what I have read today, all other copies should be removed. > (where do you get _your_ c

Re: make failed with 20021225 beta

2002-12-26 Thread Thomas Esser
> > http://www.dbs.uni-hannover.de/~te/configure > > It seemed the above file was a bit broken, it contained > many wrong , for example, line #47 No, really. It must be your download utility or whatever. Have you tried wget http://www.dbs.uni-hannover.de/~te/configure Thomas

Re: 2 files missing in texmf tree

2002-12-26 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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 ./d

Re: make failed with 20021225 beta

2002-12-26 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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

20021225 pretest

2002-12-25 Thread Thomas Esser
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 ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archiv

Re: papersize detection in configure

2002-12-25 Thread Thomas Esser
> The test for a4 papersize is not done correctly in these scripts: Thanks for your report. The reason is the way that AC_ARG_ENABLE is used in texk/xdvik/withenable.ac: AC_ARG_ENABLE(a4, [ --disable-a4set default paper size to letter and default unit to inch], [if test "$enableval"

Re: 20021223 pretest

2002-12-23 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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

20021223 pretest

2002-12-23 Thread Thomas Esser
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-20021223.tar.gz ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20021223.tar.gz ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archiv

20021221 pretest

2002-12-21 Thread Thomas Esser
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 poin

20021219 pretest

2002-12-19 Thread Thomas Esser
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 poin

bugfix for tex-make.c (20021216 pretest)

2002-12-18 Thread Thomas Esser
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 1

Re: 20021216 pretest

2002-12-16 Thread Thomas Esser
Vladimir, thanks for reporting this so quickly. Thomas

Re: 20021216 pretest

2002-12-16 Thread Thomas Esser
> Could you please regenerate xdeltas to upgrated to 20021216? Oops, I am verry sorry. I just have fixed this on my server. Robin, can you please force the mirrors again? Thomas

20021216 pretest

2002-12-16 Thread Thomas Esser
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 ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20021216.tar.gz ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archiv

Re: Makefile bug

2002-12-16 Thread Thomas Esser
> make. Patch attached. I don't understand your patch. The line you changed ends up with ...; true How can this ever fail? Thomas

20021210 pretest

2002-12-10 Thread Thomas Esser
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 incl

Re: Problems with 20021209 pretest

2002-12-10 Thread Thomas Esser
> "--with-system-zlib". Even though both the system version of zlib and > the version distributed with teTeX claim to be 1.1.4 two typedefs in Thanks. I know where this change comes from and it was done to improve the win32 support for these libraries. It all works if you choose both png and zli

20021209 pretest

2002-12-09 Thread Thomas Esser
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-20021209.tar.gz ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20021209.tar.gz ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archiv

Re: Font selection in Metapost broken

2002-12-07 Thread Thomas Esser
> Please, Thomas, include ptmr8a.tfm in tetex. I suggest to change the last few files in texfonts.map instead: % Allow people to use PostScript font names. rpagk AvantGarde-Book rpagko AvantGarde-BookOblique rpagd AvantGarde-Demi rpagdo AvantGarde-DemiOblique rpbkd Bookman-Demi rpbkdi Bookman-Dem

Re: metapost labels in groff

2002-12-07 Thread Thomas Esser
> Thomas, will you pay attention to detailed bug reports > and/or patches addressing this issue? Metapost is written and maintained by John Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The web2c port of it is maintained by Olaf Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I'd prefer that you'd adress these questions to them. My aim

Re: teTeX-src-beta-20021114: logo fonts

2002-12-07 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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

Re: is listing.sty free ?

2002-12-01 Thread Thomas Esser
> "I'd like to encourage you to .." might be acceptable but > "please send me a copy .." is very doubtful, I feel. > > Is this license okay for teTeX distribution ? No. Btw.: it is not listing.sty (CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/listing.sty) but listings.sty from the listings package (CTAN

20021116 pretest

2002-11-15 Thread Thomas Esser
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-20021116.tar.gz ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20021116.tar.gz ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archiv

Re: teTeX-src-beta-20021114: logo fonts

2002-11-15 Thread Thomas Esser
> ...there is a vertical bar missing in the shell file updmap, function > normalizeLines(), end of line 751, in the pipe between sed and sort | > uniq. So sort | uniq doesn't work, reason for doubled font entries. Yes, indeed. It is a combination with another bug which is that the logo* lines shou

Re: teTeX-src-beta-20021114: mf.ch mp.ch, End of file on the terminal

2002-11-15 Thread Thomas Esser
> mf and mpost behave differently from the *tex programs, when quit by ^D > on the command line: They do not give a linefeed. I don't think this is intentional. Thanks for your report. Thomas

Re: Yesterday's teTeX

2002-11-15 Thread Thomas Esser
> When I attempt to typeset my document with pdflatex, it fails to include > pdf files when \includegraphics{} is issued. The same document gets typeset Martin Schroeder has just fixed it. The next (i.e. today's) teTeX-beta will have a fix for that. Thomas

Re: 20021112 pretest on DEC Alpha OSF1 V4.0

2002-11-15 Thread Thomas Esser
> Unresolved: > snprintf Today's teTeX-beta (will be release, soon) has Stefan's fix of xdvik-22.40r. Thomas

20021114 pretest

2002-11-13 Thread Thomas Esser
Hi, in 20021113 the dependencies for xdvi are broken. I have regenerated them and put a 20021114 pretest (only src tarball) to my server. The archive should appear e.g. on ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20021114.tar.gz or ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/sy

20021113 pretest

2002-11-13 Thread Thomas Esser
Hi, Olaf Weber has fixed a few things in web2c and released 7.3.11. I have merged his fixes and fixed two other bugs: * fix mkstemp problem in libxpdf * snprintf fix for xdvik (until Stefan provides "his" solution) Only the src tarball is changed. It is/will be available in the usual places.

Re: 20021112 pretest on SunOS 5.5.1

2002-11-13 Thread Thomas Esser
> SunOS 5.5.1 (Solaris 2.5.1) libc supports mkstemp, but stdlib.h doesn't have > a prototype for that function. so the configure in libs/xpdf/ sets HAVE_MKSTEMP Our autoconf support for xpdf was not properly updated for xpdf-2.0 (my fault). The original xpdf-2.0 distribution has a proper check

Re: texx2 ?

2002-11-10 Thread Thomas Esser
> i was ask about texx2 (see ctan). The project is long > abandom but i tried to compile it and failed. Don't try to compile texx2 alone. As far as I understand the package, texx2 needs to be compiled as part of the umddvi. I don't think that this will be easy unless you have some knowledge about

Re: format files

2002-10-25 Thread Thomas Esser
Olaf Weber wrote: > I'm not sure to what extent this is really tex-k specific. However, I > do have an idea of what to change so that TeX will "adapt" its search > paths to the name of the format it is trying to load, pretty much > regardless of how this was specified. This does change the existi

20021025 pretest

2002-10-24 Thread Thomas Esser
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-archiv

Re: is entry for omega in fmtutil.in okay?

2002-10-24 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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 fmt

Re: format files

2002-10-24 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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 th

Re: is entry for omega in fmtutil.in okay?

2002-10-24 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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

Re: is entry for omega in fmtutil.in okay?

2002-10-24 Thread Thomas Esser
> I noticed that generated fmtutil.cnf in teTeX-src-beta-20021022.tar.gz > contained the entry > > omega omega -.dat omega.ini That's a bug, thanks for the report. "-.dat" should just be "-". > It seemed fmtutil complained about "-.dat" to me. Hm... I can run "fmtutil --al

Re: checksum failure on 20021022 beta

2002-10-23 Thread Thomas Esser
> I got a different MD5 sum when I downloaded > teTeX-src-beta-20021022.tar.gz from dante. > I got 3de059.. instead of e1330... 3de059a6e7cdfe10f003574bcf20c89e is the right checksum. I had upladed a new version of teTeX-src-beta-20021022.tar.gz without changing the name (hoping that nobody ha

20021022 pretest

2002-10-22 Thread Thomas Esser
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-20021022.tar.gz ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20021022.tar.gz ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archiv

Re: texi2pdf

2002-10-22 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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

Re: texconfig from beta-20021017 does not run with system dialog utility

2002-10-22 Thread Thomas Esser
> +if test -n "$DIALOG_PROG"; then > + dialogok=0 > +else > + check_for_binary tcdialog >/dev/null > + dialogok=$? > +fi I just have fixed it by the following (somewhat more compact): check_for_binary tcdialog >/dev/null || test -n "$DIALOG_PROG" dialogok=$? Thanks for reporting that and

Re: texi2pdf

2002-10-22 Thread Thomas Esser
> Hi. I've been using teTeX for a couple of years and I love it. However, > texi2pdf seems to be broken in every version that I have tried including > 10/13. Can you please give some more information on this? I just have tried cd bison-1.75/doc texi2pdf bison.texinfo and it worked quite nice

20021017 pretest

2002-10-17 Thread Thomas Esser
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-20021017.tar.gz ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20021017.tar.gz ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archiv

Re: 20021013 pretest

2002-10-14 Thread Thomas Esser
> texk/dviljk/Makefile.in and texk/web2c/omegafonts/Makefile.in > need a .NOTPARALLEL: target. These are not as complicated as the Makefile in texk/web2c. Can you point out what the problematic rules are? Maybe, we can make the Makefiles compatible with parallel make. I have just done a "make cl

Re: 18 less binaries built

2002-10-13 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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 odvi

20021013 pretest

2002-10-13 Thread Thomas Esser
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 ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texm

Re: dvii

2002-10-13 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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

20021013 pretest

2002-10-12 Thread Thomas Esser
Hi, I just have uploaded a new teTeX-beta release: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20021013.tar.gz ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20021013.tar.gz ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texm

Re: Thai Support in MakeIndex?

2002-10-02 Thread Thomas Esser
> I'm a Thai LaTeX user, and a contributor to thailatex development at > Thai Linux Working Group. Now I've hacked MakeIndex for Thai support, > and would like the feature to be available in upstream source. I think that makeindex is no longer being actively maintained, so I try the best with the

20020922 pretest

2002-09-22 Thread Thomas Esser
Hi, I just have uploaded a new teTeX-beta release which will soon be available at CTAN, e.g. ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20020922.tar.gz ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20020922.tar.gz ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex

20020911 pretest

2002-09-11 Thread Thomas Esser
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: * changed

Re: Stack size limit?

2002-09-11 Thread Thomas Esser
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 syst

Re: eusm10/teTeX-20020906

2002-09-07 Thread Thomas Esser
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

Re: beta-20020905 No rule to make target `../klibtool.config'

2002-09-06 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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

Re: beta-20020905 No rule to make target `../klibtool.config'

2002-09-06 Thread Thomas Esser
> I tried to install teTeX-src-beta-20020905. > > Compilation stops with .. > > make[2]: Entering directory `/disc1/lsrc/teTeX/teTeX-src-beta-20020905/texk/kpathsea' > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../klibtool.config', needed by `tex-file.lo'. >Stop. Maybe, this is caused by the wrong

20020906 pretest

2002-09-06 Thread Thomas Esser
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 ftp://ftp.dante.de

20020905 pretest

2002-09-05 Thread Thomas Esser
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 ftp://ftp.dante.de/te

Re: [PATCH] Wrong font mappings with updmap 20020901 pretest

2002-09-02 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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 ma

20020901 pretest

2002-09-01 Thread Thomas Esser
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:

Re: Some remarks about pretest 20020825

2002-09-01 Thread Thomas Esser
> It seems that the system managers have restricted the size of allocatable > memory on all our student HP machines to 64 Mbyte. So in order to run Ok, I think that I'll make one exception to my "keep it simple" rule for the array sizes. The extra_mem_top / extra_mem_bot settings are only needed

Re: Problems with texlinks and fmtutil

2002-08-31 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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

Re: "cont-en" format fails to build if --disable-multiplatform set

2002-08-28 Thread Thomas Esser
> 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 size=

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