Re: lgr10u and suet14

2000-03-13 Thread Thomas Esser
Hello Paul, Tetex contains a file lgr10u.tfm, but no corresponding mf file. lgr10u is a font which is build into some HP LaserWriters. This is for use with the dvilj* drivers. Also, the .tfm file for suet14 does not correspond to the mf file. Maybe the checksums in the pk files for suet14

Re: Symlinks in the source tarfile

2000-03-14 Thread Thomas Esser
First problem: the tetex 1.0.6 release says to report problems to an address "tetex-pretest" Where exactly? In the file PROBLEMS. Ah, I see and I'll fix this. Thanks, Thomas

Re: patch for architecture alphaev6-dec-osf4.0f

2000-03-14 Thread Thomas Esser
Digital UNIX V4.0F (Rev. 1229); Wed Feb 2 10:48:03 MET 2000 and needed to add a new achritecture (mine is alphaev6-dec-osf4.0f) to the */config.sub files. It seems like the most recent version of config.sub / config.guess available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/config/ already support the

Re: [Arjan van de Ven: Bug#55001: Dutch hyphenation-patterns are outdated]

2000-03-20 Thread Thomas Esser
[Note: I have added Piet Tutelaers, author of dutch96.pat, to the Cc: list] ftp.tue.nl/pub/tex/GB95/spell-nl-v5b/afbreking/patronen/dutch96.pat Both, the currently used version (nehyph2.tex) and this one have a "no sell" restriction. This contradicts my aim of a teTeX which is free of this

Re: omega 1.11 (was: PStricks)

2000-05-11 Thread Thomas Esser
(Incidentally, the reason that I asked my earlier question was that I installed Omega 1.11 on our site recently, and was concerned that if it wasn't in teTeX, then maybe it was because it was a buggy version or something. With the second question about the contents of ftp.dante.de, Well, if

Re: updmap suggestions

2000-08-07 Thread Thomas Esser
I suggest that updmap uses kpsewhich to find the locations of the actual *.map files -- additionally I would like to have my own updmap program in my local texmf tree so that the main TEXMF tree can stay completely clean. This would imply that the texconfig script (or whichever program

Re: problem with beta 20000804

2000-08-10 Thread Thomas Esser
Can anybody tell me, where I can find beta_2804 ? I've tried ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/local/misc/teTeX-beta Both, CTAN and ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de directly access my machine. There seems to be a problem with ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de and the admin is on vacation. So, I recommend

Re: beta source location

2000-09-05 Thread Thomas Esser
You can get it from: CTAN:/systems/unix/teTeX-beta The version sitting there is 2000/08/07 Right. CTAN and ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de both mirror from my machine. The rrzn has a problem with the ftpd I use (latest wu-ftp) and their mirror does not work at the moment. Thomas

Re: bad links in Catalogue

2000-12-04 Thread Thomas Esser
It has been pointed out to me that some of the links in teTeX's local version of Graham Williams' TeX catalogue are bad. Specifically, the folder and star links on many of the entries/*.html point to nowhere. For a specific example, look at the entry for "accents." The Catalogue is

Re: incorrect extendfont values in lucidabr.map

2000-12-16 Thread Thomas Esser
the lucidabr.map file contains some entries with "850 ExtendFont" which probably should have been ".85 ExtendFont" Yes, some version did have that bug. But, it was fixed some time ago. Thomas

small fixes...

2000-12-18 Thread Thomas Esser
Just to fix two small problems in the current teTeX-beta, I have created a new (src) pretest release: 20001218. The diff is very short and I have appended it to this mail. Thomas diff -ru teTeX-src-beta-2807/ChangeLog teTeX-src-beta-20001218/ChangeLog --- teTeX-src-beta-2807/ChangeLog

Re: [tex-k] secure mode of dvips should be default

2001-06-04 Thread Thomas Esser
Giuseppe Ghibo' writes: there is a recently-announced textrace program which goes some of URL? ur, um, I have lost it! did anyone else record it? http://freshmeat.net/projects/textrace/ Thomas

small update to teTeX pretest (20011104)

2001-11-04 Thread Thomas Esser
I just have fixed the depend.mk files for xdvik / oxdvik in the teTeX pretest. The two new files that I just have uploaded to my server are teTeX-src-beta-20011103-20011104.xdelta teTeX-src-beta-20011104.tar.gz They will appear on CTAN in systems/unix/teTeX-beta in the next few hours. I will

Re: cm-super (was: finally: new texmf tarball (beta-20011128))

2001-12-02 Thread Thomas Esser
Yesterday I have uploaded a new texmf tarball which is quite up-to-date I think (please let me know about any outdated/wrong stuff in it). Is cm-super included? No. But I have not yet finally decided about including it in future. Thomas

2001/12/02 pretest

2001-12-02 Thread Thomas Esser
Hi, I just have uploaded teTeX-src-beta-20011202.tar.gz teTeX-texmf-beta-20011202.tar.gz teTeX-texmfsrc-beta-20011202.tar.gz to the teTeX-beta area (will soon appear at CTAN:systems/unix/teTeX-beta). The main change for the src-tarball is the merge with web2c-7.3.7 pretest and a bugfix

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

2001-12-02 Thread Thomas Esser
But I admit that it is a bit difficult (Hans Hagen changed the ISP and was not yet able to move the DNS over to the new provider). The official Yes, I have downloaded from the wrong site. Oh, if only CTAN was really *comprehensive*... page is: http://ds035.xs4all.nl/download.htm Ok, I just

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

2001-12-02 Thread Thomas Esser
Current is 2001.11.13, 13.14 You have 2001.7.11, 16.33 can you explain what 13.14 and 16.33 mean? is there some sort of versioning here? It is 2001.11.13.13.14 on Hans' server. My interpretation is .MM.DD.HH.MM in which case why does it go backwards? :-) Thomas

Re: Some more remarks on compiling teTeX 20011202 on Mac OS X 10.1.1

2001-12-15 Thread Thomas Esser
-- After configuring, there is no libs/xpdf/xpdf/c-auto.h. I went to libs/xpdf and configured again (by hand) and xpdf/c-auto.h was created. This did not happen in the first run (I did a make clean in the root dir and then did another make) which makes me suspect that 'make clean'

Re: 2001/12/02 pretest

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Esser
--with-system-t1lib doesn't work, too. From config.log: ... It seems the check for t1lib is broken? Yes. Even more broken is the libtype1 stuff, because libtype1 is usually part of libt1. So, the configure options for libtype1 do not make any sense. I think that I have fixed these issues now.

Re: [patch] texconfig with whiptail instead of dialog

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Esser
The patch to implement this is simple: --- tetex-bin-1.0.7+20011202.orig/texk/tetex/texconfig +++ tetex-bin-1.0.7+20011202/texk/tetex/texconfig @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ { u=`uname -s`; } 2/dev/null case $u in FreeBSD|Linux) + test -f /usr/bin/whiptail

Re: 2001/12/02 pretest

2002-01-20 Thread Thomas Esser
Dear Thomas, just to know, do you plan to add dvipdfm and ttf2pk support in your latest beta? BTW, do you plan also to include the tx/pxfonts (they are GPL) in the main texmf tree? As I've not seen yet them in 20011202 beta. There are other things that I plan to do first. A stable teTeX

Re: 2001/12/02 pretest

2002-01-27 Thread Thomas Esser
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? Has not happened and will propably not happen in the near future. Thomas

20020129 pretest

2002-01-29 Thread Thomas Esser
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-20020129.tar.gz or use any other CTAN mirror. It might take a few hours until dante and the other CTAN hosts and mirros pick up the file from my server.

Re: framed.sty, documentation...

2002-02-06 Thread Thomas Esser
-- I would like to suggest the inclusion of framed.sty by Donald Arseneau Seems very reasonable. Done. -- shouldn't pdfpages be under $TEXMF/tex/pdlatex instead of $TEXMF/tex/latex? tex/pdflatex does not make sense. We could use pdftex/latex, but I don't see what we'd gain by this. --

20020401 pretest

2002-04-01 Thread Thomas Esser
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-20020401.tar.gz or use any other CTAN mirror. It might take a few hours until dante and the other CTAN hosts and mirros pick up the file from my server.

teTeX-src-beta-20020401b pretest

2002-04-01 Thread Thomas Esser
Hi, just today, a new texinfo (4.2) appeared and I have upgraded it and released a new teTeX pretest. It will soon be available at ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20020401b.tar.gz and on the other CTAN hosts, I hope. Thomas

teTeX-src-beta-20020402 pretest

2002-04-01 Thread Thomas Esser
Hi, somehow, my automake / autoconf has messed up the Makefile.in's of texinfo and I had to update the pretest. Since a new day has just begun, the filename now is teTeX-src-beta-20020402.tar.gz The file will soon appear on ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/ and the

Re: teTeX-src-beta-20020402 pretest

2002-04-02 Thread Thomas Esser
somehow, my automake / autoconf has messed up the Makefile.in's of texinfo and I had to update the pretest. Since a new day has just begun, the filename now is teTeX-src-beta-20020402.tar.gz The file will soon appear on ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/

Re: 0402 tree configuratio warning....

2002-04-02 Thread Thomas Esser
This seems to strip --prefix arguments away from being passed to the subdirs. This produces warning in subdirs when looking for the texmf tree unless the tree is installed in /usr/local/texmf. Hm... I just recently have reactivated that prefix strip (I once implemented it and someone else

Re: latest tetex beta/configure

2002-04-07 Thread Thomas Esser
Same here (Redhat 7.x). I guess it depends on an environment variable TEXMFsomething being set in a system-wide profile to work from scratch. No, see my previous mail. ### SU: added using `kpsewhich' as last fallback before giving up; since ### xdvik is most likely to be

Re: latest tetex beta/configure

2002-04-08 Thread Thomas Esser
While this makes sense for a single driver, I don't recommend this for complete systems like teTeX. People might be suprised if files get installed into their old system even though a new prefix was chosen. But wouldn't that only be for those directories where --datadir isn't passed down

dvips -G1 bugfix: testing needed

2002-04-11 Thread Thomas Esser
Hi, Tomas Rokicki just has finnished an important bugfix concerning the character shifting feature of dvips. The bug which is not hopefully fixed is that character shifting when activated e.g. via -G1 or -Ppdf has not checked whether the used slots for remapping are free in the font or not.

Re: [texmf-20020207] Possibly harmful duplicates in the texmf tree?

2002-04-25 Thread Thomas Esser
I've been installing the teTeX beta (src: 20020402; texmf: 20020207) and my shadow utility detected a number of files with different versions in the texmf tree, which may be harmful in my opinion if they belong to the same Thanks for reporting this. Most are already fixed in my tree (not yet

Re: beta-20020402: compile problems with flex on Tru64 4.0D

2002-05-10 Thread Thomas Esser
when compiling teTeX-src-beta-20020402 on Compaq Tru64 Unix 4.0D with gcc 2.95.2 compilation fails on texk/web2c/omegafonts/lex.yy.c with the error: pl.l:314: arguments given to macro `yywrap' The fix is to _prevent_ that /usr/bin/flex (shipped with Tru64) which puts the macro #define

Re: --prefix somewhat broken in configure

2002-05-20 Thread Thomas Esser
With the April 2002 snapshot, I find that if I use the --prefix=PREFIX option, some of the subconfigures complain that they fail to find the texmf tree even though I've put it under PREFIX/share/texmf. I must Yes, they complain, but this is harmless. also give --datadir=PREFIX/share. I

Re: beta-20020402: LDFLAGS not used when linking pdftex and [o]xdvi.bin

2002-05-24 Thread Thomas Esser
compiling teTeX-src-beta-20020402 with env LDFLAGS=-L/my/path/to/libs ./configure --with-system-tifflib \ --with-system-t1lib gmake gives problems in the linking stage of texk/web2c/pdftex, texk/oxdvik/oxdvi.bin and texk/xdvik/xdvi.bin since LDFLAGS is not used there: I

Re: beta-20020402: configure problems if tifflib needs jpeg

2002-05-24 Thread Thomas Esser
configure from teTeX-src-beta-20020402 doesn't detect an installed tifflib (--with-system-tifflib) if libtiff has been compiled with JPEG support and therefore depends on libjpeg. Ok, I have fixed that. Thanks for your report. Thomas

Re: texexec teTeX

2002-05-27 Thread Thomas Esser
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

Re: cxx-runtime-hack?

2002-05-28 Thread Thomas Esser
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

20020530 pretest

2002-05-30 Thread Thomas Esser
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

Re: 20020503 --with-mfw=mf

2002-06-02 Thread Thomas Esser
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

Re: dest_names_size missing in texmf.cnf

2002-06-02 Thread Thomas Esser
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.

Re: 20020503 --with-mfw=mf

2002-06-02 Thread Thomas Esser
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

Re: 20020530 pretest

2002-06-02 Thread Thomas Esser
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

Re: xdvi: Unable to load encoding vector 8r.enc

2002-06-03 Thread Thomas Esser
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

Re: texdoctk .dat file for latest beta?

2002-06-11 Thread Thomas Esser
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

new texmf/texdoctk/texdoc-103.dat file (for 20020530 pretest)

2002-06-11 Thread Thomas Esser
texdoc-103.dat Description: Binary data

Re: beta-20020530: compile problems on Tru64 5.0A

2002-08-02 Thread Thomas Esser
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.

Re: a problem compiling on Solaris/SPARC 7, gcc 3.1

2002-08-02 Thread Thomas Esser
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

Re: documentation buglet

2002-08-02 Thread Thomas Esser
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

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

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 2.7, I

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: [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

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

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

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: 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 the LaTeX

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 system

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: *

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

2002-10-13 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

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 odvicopy

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: 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 that TeX

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

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

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

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

Re: 20021216 pretest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 of

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: 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: 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

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: 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. so)

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]

LICENSE for src tarball

2003-01-31 Thread Thomas Esser
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]

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

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 a bad

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 the

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 platforms

teTeX-2.0

2003-02-02 Thread Thomas Esser
fun! Thomas Esser, February 2003

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: 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

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 sys/socket.h #endif -extern select

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