line: read the documentation of the kpathsea library and the
web2c distribution.
Sebastian Rahtz
Denis Barbier writes:
For maximal customization, i prefer reading variables from texmf.cnf.
Attached patch works with those lines in texmf.cnf:
TEXDOCSSUFFIX = :.dvi:.ps:.html:.txt
TEXDOCSCOMPRESS = :.gz:.bz2:.zip:.Z
TEXDOCEXT = {$TEXDOCSSUFFIX}{$TEXDOCSCOMPRESS}
not a good idea,
Denis Barbier writes:
Every (te)TeX distribution has its preferred documentation format.
well, its often dictated by the package author, but no matter
Order in which formats are parsed is actually hardcoded in texdoc, which
i do not like. To fit your needs you only have to edit texmf.cnf
Christoph Martin writes:
- are *they* going to fix these problems?
I'll be happy to include a patch in the Debian package to fix this.
do please post the fix back to us...
s
Thomas Esser writes:
This only makes sense, if you compile kpathsea with $VARTEXMF included
in the search path for texmf.cnf files (before everything else). This is
not the case in standard teTeX, so it is correct not to copy texmf.cnf
into the VARTEXMF tree.
It does not help to set
Staszek Wawrykiewicz writes:
It is still not clear what can be changed in the local/user
configuration. For example, teTeX 1.0.7 texconfig do not make a copy of
texmf.cnf to the $VARTEXMF (if it was set, and as it was in previous
versions).
um. you want us to change the install programs
Nes, G.J.H. van writes:
Starting pdftex, I got directly the following error message:
/sbin/loader: Fatal Error: cannot map libstdc++.so.2.7.1
System: UNIX DEC-Alpha (OSF1 V4.0F (Rev 1229))
Software : tetex CD-ROM June 1999
to be honest with you, I would suggest you download
Tom Kartanowicz writes:
When a faculty member tries to latex a file, it does mktextfm without
first checking of the files already exist.
Here is some sample output:
Document Class: article 1999/09/10 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
Quy writes:
My font "jvnr8a.pfb" has already install in :
/usr/share/texmf.local/fonts/pfb/microsft/verdana/
I done "texhash" ...
yes, but did you add a line to psfonts.map?
sebastian
Mr. Wang Lei writes:
Hi, I installed tetex on my RedHat/Sun Solaris and it works
well. Using dvips and type1 fonts get good quality PS files.
Now I have a problem, can dvips support truetype font?
sadly, no. use pdftex, and then acrobat to generate a PS file...
Sebastian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some users here are cautiously using pdflatex from teTeX 1.0.7 for the
first time (pdflatex 3.14159-13d)
is teTeX really only 13d? the current release is
3.14159-14f-released-2313, for what its worth. I am not sure I'd
want to worry too much about this unless
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One of the users here has reported that when he issues the command
`pdflatex try.tex' on the file try.tex:
\documentclass{slides}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\begin{slide}One\end{slide}
\begin{slide}Two\end{slide}
\end{document}
he
Robert Sim writes:
Hi,
pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.1) 3.14159-0.13d
moral. upgrade to the latest version
I'm using the epsfig package to include pdf's in my document. Most pdf's
work fine, but if I export an eps from xv, and run epstopdf on it and then
include the pdf, it doesn't render
Verwalter Dr.Betz writes:
Sorry for the 'off topic', but my letters never seem to arrive at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] So I could'nt figure out, how to write annotations
(\pdfannot) to include sound ...
As list owner, I have been some of these bounces; Sorry, I have been lax
about following them
Thomas Ruedas writes:
...
Cannot find font file mtsyn.pfb
how much clear a message do you want?
Sebastian
Bouchniba, Ali writes:
My question seems stupid by I tried everything and it is still
not working. Basically my tetex is not working. I have gone
through the archive, newgroups but I still do not have a clue.
When I try processing any document using tex (for instance
TETEXDOC.tex in
Uwe Koloska writes:
Hello,
/texmf/dvips/base has an outdated texnansi.enc. From their website I have
downloaded a new one that has the Euro currncy sign included:
http://www.yandy.com/download/texnansi.enc
What other addresses should mail with this update?
I have updated the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just another question about pdflatex.
I am trying to include a .tiff image in my document, according the pdftex-FAQ,
from Radahakrishnan, with no success. I am using
\includegraphics[options]{image.tiff} command and the pdflatex return the
following
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I tryied with \includegraphics[options]{image.tif} and I got the same error.
! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .tif.
PS in general, I'd really recommend switching to PNG. pdftex handles
TIFF ok, but not brilliantly.
Sebastian
Frank Cornelis writes:
Okay, yes, I see this too now. It seems to be related to a coloured
block of text that flows across a page boundary. Rather than colour
the next page, it colours the top of the original page.
Could you fix it? It's probably a stupid counter somewhere being
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Sebastian.
I tryied with \includegraphics[options]{image.tif} and I got the same error.
! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .tif.
you probably dont have the current pdftex.def. Grab from
http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/
sebastian
X binaries on.
if anyone has a contact at IBM who wants to donate an RS6000 to the
TeXLive project, I'm listening.
Sebastian Rahtz
Frank Mittelbach writes:
came from a TeX Live CD. The next incarnation has no AIX binaries on.
ouch -- wrong approach imho; the problem is already that too many
installations are incomplete (while texlive is more or less not:-)
taking away the binaries of some major platform is not
Frank Mittelbach writes:
if you ask me: probably aix and even other sets of binaries, but i
would strongly vote for providing them ready to run outside the
core CD, eg in a way that the set of less used binaries is
available for download (or via a second CD) and can be installed
Peter-Klaus Schilling writes:
Using texconfig I have not been able to enlarge the pattern memory to
add further hyphenation patterns to latex.fmt, since I could not find a
corresponding constant in the file texmf.cnf (see tetex-FAQ #24).
How could I manage?
edit texmf.cnf directly,
Malka Cymbalista writes:
I am running TeTeX on a variety of Unix platforms and I have the same problem on all
platforms.
I am tryig to use several symbols from the msam font. In my latex file I have
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
I get the following error message
Helen McCall writes:
I agree with this. The font naming system should now be changed. The 8+3
..
Yes! Please can we have the font naming system changed?
Changed by who? this is a community, remember. The font naming scheme,
and the equally important TDS, were the work of various ad hoc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are thousands of dedicated amateurs (in the sense that they do
it for love rather than for money) out there working on various bits
of LaTeX, developing packages, ... but no overall cooordinator.
well, we do have the distinction in LaTeX between core
The tex in texlive supports a --src-specials flag; that tex is
typically more unstable than mainstream teTeX, but I guess teTeX will
do the same shortly (or does it already?)
sebastian
George J. Wakileh writes:
One final issue --- texi2dvi which is equivalent to tex fn.texi, texindex
fn.??, tex fn.texi, tex fn.texi, dvips fn.dvi -o does not work. You just
have to stop it with ^C or ^Z and no output at all. Any idea why texi2dvi
does not work at the time that
Bob Howlett writes:
Actually, we got fptex from the web, it's the unix stuff we got from
the TeXLive5 CD. That's why I was amazed that this problem with dvips
occurred. I guess from what you say that it must have been installed
incorrectly here. If you can suggest what might have gone
Hendri Hondorp writes:
Our configuration:
1. Sun Solaris Workstations running TeXLive 6:
(latex-prompt = This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.3.1))
2. Linux (Redhat distribution) PC's running TeTeX:
(latex-prompt = This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1))
why? why dont you
Ronan KERYELL writes:
I'm trying to install tex4ht and I'm just turning crazy...
It sounds as simple to install and configure as TeX in the 80's... :-(
Is there a package somewhere for teTeX or a recipe to install it on teTeX ?
its not *so* hard. its part of TeXlive, look at the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Before changing anything in your LaTeX source file, try looking at the
page setup option under the file button on your Acrobat Reader.
For some reason which the system people haven't (yet) been able to
track down, this (on my area of our Unix system) shows A4
sleep.
this is why god (or other deity of your choice) gave you
pdftex. just use pdftex followed by xpdf|gv|acroread.
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to use pdf instead of ps?
yes, because we have pdftex but we dont have pstex! PDF is the
way things are going, because its much simpler than PS for software
writers
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Norbert Preining
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The xdvi.bin size increases from
xdvi.bin in Master: 742040
to
xdvi.bin Xaw static: 981492
Please tell me if I should upload this binary to Master/bin/i386-linux?
yes please, and tell the list, so
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 06:36:10PM +0400, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
i've released the CM-Super font package v0.3.3
it will be on TeX Live 7.
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releases or future plans on
releases for this MAC OS based on BSD.
the TeX Live CD (http://www.tug.org/texlive/)
comes with binaries etc for Mac OSX. the current (beta)
teTeX should also compile out of the box under Mac OSX.
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The compression issue in dvipdfm should be OK now in the TeX Live
development sources. If we can make a new release of TeX Live source
and binaries next month, it would then appear in all binaries
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compromises.
I think the extra license statements in multicol and listings are just
plain silly, and don't know why the authors wasted their time
on them.
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, in my opinion.
Putting in an advert for LaTeX3, saying it needs donations, is not
at all a bad thing, no. Dressing it up as a confusing moral license
is not, IMHO.
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From: Kristoffer Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Resent-From: Kristoffer Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED]
..
The St. Mary's Road font document (stmaryrd.dvi.gz) explicitly states
that one is not allowed to make a profit from distributing it. This
clearly makes it nonfree.
I asked the author, Alan
Alan Shutko writes:
Yeah, but people don't distribute .dvi files, do they?
Sure they do. There are DVI docs distributed with many binary
distributions of tetex, the Emacs manual is being distributed to
proofreaders in DVI, and there are a bunch in various places on the
web.
so how
Giuseppe Ghibo' writes:
See for instance here:
ftp://ftp.ascii.co.jp/pub/TeX/ascii-ptex/dvips/
have you looked at it, Giuseppe? Is there any reason why the patches
cannot be merged into the normal distribution?
Sebastian
Pierre MacKay writes:
While I have your ear, I have been looking for the most recent
version of the old dviselect and dviconcat originally developed
by Chris Torek at the University of Maryland. If they have
disappeared, as they seem to have, what takes their place?
they are a normal
include them directly?
Who go via EPS?
Any ideas what what the prepress thing actually does, by the way?
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TeX Live has:
% These are pdftex-specific.
obj_tab_size = 20 % PDF objects
dest_names_size=30 % destinations
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The chances are so high that this relates to progdoc.sty (not sure what
that is, I fear), that I think you really need
to address yourself to the author of that...
If hyperref + pdftex + colorlinks=true were broken,
we'd have found out many years ago
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