I'm trying very hard to install teTeX v1.0 on my Linux system.
Whenver I'm building the program, texconfig gives me this error:
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/texconfig:
/tmp/texconf6997/logfile: No such file or directory
I see this line in the texconfig script:
mkdir
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=texdoc.patch
Interesting, but IMHO texdoc should do the decompression and not assume
that the viewer does this. ghostview doesn't. acroread dosn't (compressing
pdf does not make sense, but one can never be sure what people do).
Content-Disposition:
we're using tetex 1.0.9 on a Solaris 2.6 OS. One of the users wishes to modify
Hey, where did you get this? I don't know anything of a 1.0.9 version.
the value of the TEXMFCNF variable, to import his own texmf.cnf file.
Set TEXMFCNF to the *directory* that the texmf.cnf file is in, not to
This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2000.02.27:2327' - report.ps
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+57/600 --dpi 657 ph
vb8r
I guess that dvips does not find the right psfonts.map file. Use find
to locate all
/local/apps7/teTeX/bin/fmtutil: 11352 Memory fault: A memory image file is
created as "core".
fmtutil: `pdftex -ini -fmt=pdftex -progname=pdftex pdftex.ini' failed.
OS: AIX 4.3.2 PPC
compiler: comes with the system, NOT the GNU compiler
So, try to compile pdftex with less
I just completely erased my old teTeX installation and
reinstalled it. I think I have all the TEXINPUTS*
variables pointing to the right directories.
Better don't sprcify the system directories for TEXINPUTS directly.
It is too easy to do it wrong. A empty search component in TEXINPUTS
soule
TEXMFCNF = .:{$SELFAUTOLOC,$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}\
{,{/share,}/texmf{.local,}/web2c};c;/TeX/texmf/web2c
If I changed that to
TEXMFCNF = .:{$VARTEXMF,$SELFAUTOLOC,$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}\
{,{/share,}/texmf{.local,}/web2c};c;/TeX/texmf/web2c
then the programs would
Subject: Re: env NO_CLEAR=true texconfig font ro doesn't work on irix65 in batch
I see. There are a lot of instances of direct calls to the program
clear. Can you replace them by cls and try again (except for the one
call to clear in the body of the function cls itself)?
what is meant by tty
One of our users noticed that our teTeX-1.0 is much slower than the old
teTeX-0.4.
I guess that file searching is the cause. Please, compare the search paths
(e.g. adding !! in the TEXMF definition in teTeX-1.0 might help a lot).
Real debugging for file searching can be done by setting
dvips: xputenv.c:79: xputenv: Assertion `old_item' failed.
Aborted
This problem has been analyzed and nothing wrong in the kpathsea code
could be found. I guess that the problem is some incompatibility in the
libc library.
Does the libc6 binary that I provide work on both
Has it been considered to detect and then use stow by the installation
and texconfig to manage symlinks from the tetex tree to common places?
http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
No, but that should all work without any problem. teTeX, by default,
already installs into a directory of its own.
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode cx --bdpi 300 --mag 1+0/300 --dpi 300
cmbx12
mktexpk: Running hbf2gf -q -p cmbx12 300
Couldn't open `cmbx.cfg'
mktexpk runs hbf2gf with "test" option to check whether the font in
question is supported by hbf2gf or not. If "hbf2gf" does not return an
error
But how, if I would like to show them using a beamer?
I use pdflatex + pdfslides and do presentations using the acrobat
reader. With
http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/,
you can even get "fancy" effects, known from Powerpoint.
Thomas
Ideally, I would like to have the (La)TeX interpreter available as a shared
library, which could then be invoked with something like:
There is some code in web2c to make some functionality available via
the IPC mechanism. This might or might not help you. I suggest you to
ask your question on
Thomas: is there a particular reason for it not being included in
tetex? I did not find any offending copyright notice. The
It did not plug in easily when I looked at it some time ago (problems
including it into the source tree and problems with map files).
I think that I'll add dvipdfm
My font "jvnr8a.pfb" has already install in :
/usr/share/texmf.local/fonts/pfb/microsft/verdana/
Change the search path for type1 fonts in texmf.cnf or rename
/usr/share/texmf.local/fonts/pfb
to
/usr/share/texmf.local/fonts/type1
Then texhash again.
Thomas
pdflatex -mktex=pk file.tex
does the program do so. Is there an option in texconfig to set this to be the
No.
Thomas
In my tetex-1.0.6 (RH61) I can not found all necessary files for type1
URW fonts (avantgar, bookman,courier,helvetic,ncntrsbk, palatino,times
). Only pfb afm are available. I installed tetex via RPM package. Is
this a error of RPM package or tetex distribution.
Well, this is no error at
work fine, but if I export an eps from xv, and run epstopdf on it and then
include the pdf, it doesn't render correctly in acroread, in spite of the
I have made the same experience with pdftex versions before 0.14. If you
use xv, better save as gif or png and include this into pdftex 0.13. Use
Hi,
here are my conclusions and a few answers to questions and comments
about this subject.
- using find / xargs
xargs fails as soon as filenames contain whitespace (space or newline)
- using find ... -print0 | xargs -0
That works fine with GNU tools, but I cannot assume that these are
We are getting closer to the problem (look at the forwarded mail in the
end of my reply). I am sure that mktexlsr (alias texhash) was the reason
in the other two cases as well.
The only thing that fires after "normal" completion of mktexlsr are the
commands in the trap line. Can you please try
If character shifting is needed it should be configured on a font-by-font
basis. Perhaps there should be a list of fonts to which shifting will be
applied when the option is set for dvips. This is really a dvips issue.
The dvips maintainer knows about the problem that character shifting
My ldap2bibtex client's output for this entry is:
...
What I'd like to end up with is the integration of BibTeX with the
ldap searching procedure, such that each entry is resolved when
BibTeX is running instead of searching a static file. This is why
Instead of hacking bibtex, you could
some time ago, I posted the attached question, but I didn't get any
answer. Is there really nonody wo can help?
This usually does not happen in teTeX, so I thought this was a debian problem...
But xdvi stupidly makes fonts for mode ljfour. So, please, where do I
find the REAL default mode
I am looking for a program (linux/unix) that can dump (show/print) a
given pf(a/b)-Fontfile?
http://gfontview.sourceforge.net/
Thomas
Have you tried --
plain (non-k) xdvi?
I just did (for xdvi-22.29):
./configure --with-tetex
make
TEXMFMAIN=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf TEXMFCNF=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c
./xdvi /tmp/small2e
and the buttens were not missing.
One warning (error?) was displayed, though:
main_memory.context = 110
main_memory = 263000 % words of inimemory available; also applies to inimfmp
). What is `.context'? Is there a (required) relationship between `main.
memory.context' and `main.memory'? Incidentally, why such odd numeric values?
Ignore the .context values.
If you look at the texconfig, it uses the dialog program
(atleast on Linux and BSD). So, it seems you have not defined
your TERM environment variable. Try xterm or vt100, depending on
what kind of terminal (emulator) you use.
texconfig ignores the environment variable $TERM (and sets
$ dvips -o presentation.ps presentation.dvi
This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2000.10.23:1627' - presentation.ps
dvips: Can't open font metric file phvr8r.tfm
dvips: I will use cmr10.tfm instead, so expect bad
29) Metafont does not support the X display.
It may be that your Metafont binary is compiled without support for
the X windows system. If there exists a mf.X binary, that one
has the missing X support you need.
This is a bug in the docs. The name of the program is mfw.
$ xdvi a
$ kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfivemp --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600
--dpi 600 pbkl7t
mktexpk: Running mf \mode:=ljfivemp; mag:=1+0/600; nonstopmode; input
pbkl7t
The problem is that xdvi does not find pbkl7t.vf. Does some environment
variable force xdvi to use a wrong search
I can do this after the fact by setting the TEXMFCNF environment variable
to point to the directory containing the preferred version texmf.cnf -- is
Change TEXMFCNF in texk/kpathsea/texmf.in to whatever you need.
Thomas
# kpsewhich -expand-var='$SELFAUTOLOC -- $SELFAUTODIR -- $SELFAUTOPARENT'
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu -- /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux --
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc
Looks very broken. This sould be impossible. Look at the kpathsea code
(progname.c, I think). Must be a
EPM is a free UNIX software/file packaging program that generates
distribution archives from a list of files. The distributions
include installation and removal scripts that handle such details
as diskless client installations and initialization scripts.
EPM can also generate "native"
In teTeX-1.0.7, in the top level configure script, the variable
needs_pnglib is carefully set, but on line 2539, needs_libpng is
referred to instead of needs_pnglib.
Thanks. The fix is to replace needs_libpng by needs_pnglib in
libs/libpng/libpng.ac and to run the reautoconf script (at
In case px/txfonts will ever be included into, or used with, a tetex
distribution, I provide two map files which should be used with or put
into pdftex.map. psfonts.map and ps2pk.map can do with the pxr.map and
txr.map coming with the font distributions.
Thanks. Yes, I plan to include
Is there an easy way to get dvips to use type 1 fonts, or alternatively, can
1) dvips -Ppdf -G0 ...
or:
2) edit + run texmf/dvips/config/updmap:
type1_default=false
# type1_default=true
Just change the comment character in these two lines, then run the script.
Thomas
how many platforms do you support, Thomas?
Just the platforms that people have provided binaries for:
binaries/alpha-linux-libc6.tar.gz DEC Alpha / Linux (glibc 2)
binaries/alpha-osf.tar.gz DEC Alpha / Digital Unix 3.2 or later
binaries/hppa1.1-hpux9.tar.gz HPPA /
the URW fonts coming with ghostscript are named n021004l.pfb (and so on).
In teteX 1.0.2 the same URW font is named utmb8a.pfb.
Right, these files are named according to the Berry scheme (- texdoc
fontname). This scheme commonly used in the TeX world and make is easier
to use some tools (e.g.
More portable means that we try to use the same name... I just
got confused since the txfonts package in txr2.map used the ghostscript
name. From now on I'm a Berry name guy :-)
Well, the txfonts package has two map files with font downloading of LW35 fonts:
- Adobe Font names / Adobe file
i always found this very useful, but i haven't been able to find out if teTeX
provides the same functionality, and if so, whether i can use it from within
emacs. so does it? and can i?
Basically, xdvik and web2c need to be changed to support this. I think
that the next version of web2c will
I've just caught up with the times and upgraded our old teTeX-0.4 to the
latest binary (1.0.5 I believe) for Solaris. All installed apparently
with no problems.
What we do have is horrible output from xdvi. Text is illegible, and
what you _can_ see is grey rather than black. Using old
Certainly ps2pdf can make good use of Type 1 fonts, so I don't understand
...
The version that comes with tetex only deals with Type 1 fonts for postscript
standard fonts. It seems to convert latex Type 1 fonts to bitmaps. This is
teTeX does not include ghostscript or ps2pdf, so this is
mfcb8a.pfbmfcr8a.pfbmmnr8a.pfbzdcr8a.pfb Second number not found
in Char string of '/FontName'
Well, two things might help:
- turn off partial font downloading for this font ( instead of
in font map)
- use a later version of dvips, e.g. as included in teTeX-beta
(this version has
I am trying to compile teTex 1.0.7 and it is failing because it cannot
find the app-defaults for xdvi. I looked for the file XDvi in
Please read
CTAN:systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib/sources/README
or the INSTALL or QuickInstall file included in the sources?
Thomas
where is the default environment of the teTeX distribution
set?
Nothing in teTeX sets its environment. It is set outside, usually by
the files that your shell read on startup.
Any hints? Thanks in advance
Add
KPATHSEA_DEBUG=-1; export KPATHSEA_DEBUG
to mpmkmps.sh.
Thomas
source /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
Make this:
TEXMFCNF=/etc/texmf; export TEXMFCNF
Thomas
kdebug: texmf.cnf path = (none)
^???
First the path is set, than it disappears?
[...]
Later on, it should find the texmf.cnf file. Are there references to
SELFAUTO* in the texmf.cnf file? If yes, try to replace them by the
absolute paths. Do not try to set
I configured teTex so that the generated fonts go in
/mnt/e/ltexmf/fonts/pk/canonbj and texconfig says that the fonts have to be
generated there.
The problem is that when I start xdvi, it find the fonts in this directory, but
generate the missing fonts in the
Since there is no pdflatex.exe, I would like to know if tetex handles
pdflatex as follows
pdftex pdflatex.fmt file_name.tex
On UNIX, we have symbolic links, i.e. pdflatex - pdftex. On win32,
the best approximation for pdflatex is
pdftex -progname=pdflatex
Thomas
texi2dvi fn.texi
but nothing happens. With a ^C, I got
I cannot find texinfo
However, texinfo is in
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo
texinfo is just another format. Create a batch file which calls
tex -progname=texinfo
Thomas
I installed teTeX-1.0 source version.
Did you follow the instructions, e.g. INSTALL or QuickInstall?
More specifically, did you install the texmf tarball?
Thomas
Where is the tex.fmt?
What happens if you run
fmtutil --byfmt=tex
Thomas
Is there a new teTeX release underway anytime soon?
No. My target for a new release is somewhere at the end of this year
when - hopefully - the next web2c release is out.
teTeX is based on web2c-7.3.1 and I want to skip over 7.3.2 and 7.3.3
which are already out (with only very few
Our department's current tex installation was obtained from the
texlive5 CD. Recently, one of my colleagues discovered some characters
missing from the printed version of one of his documents, and on
further investigation we discovered that dvips was not finding
characters 0 to 31 in the
gs 5.5 is too old. You should grap version 6.51 (not 7.0 which is buggy)
from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/
What do you know, that I don't know? What are these bugs in 7.0? I have
it installed on Win2k and Linux and haven't seen any problems (though I
don't use it
gsftopk ptmr8r 600 seemed to work for me (using gs 7.0). What were the
symptoms of the bug?
$ mktexpk --dpi 600 --bdpi 600 ptmr8r
warning: kpathsea: variable `TEXMF' references itself (eventually).
mktexpk: Running gsftopk ptmr8r 600
gsftopk(k) version 1.19/700
[1] [2] [3]
Anyone know how to fix this? Where do I get `pcrr8rn' and where do I
put it?
Put
pcrr8rn Courier .85 ExtendFont TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont 8r.enc
into your psfonts.map file.
That line should already be there if you are using teTeX...
Thomas
I am using teTeX, and it is already there. What next?
Find out why dvips ignores this setting. Play with kpathsea-debug flags
(texdoc kpathsea). For a start, use KPATHSEA_DEBUG=4 (env-var).
Thomas
What is the usual way to set the search path for files like `pcrr8rn'?
There is no usual way. Debugging problems like this requires some
knowledge about what the application is doing. In this case, dvips
should find an entry in its map file that tells him that pcrr8rn is a
build-in font.
So,
Can somebody explain this? -chris
[okocim]14:45:17[abrodsky]$ xdvi smk kpathsea: Running mktexpk
--mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 2+44/600 --dpi 1244 ptmr8r
mktexpk: Running gsftopk ptmr8r 1244 gsftopk(k) version 1.17gs:
#^ 1 20 90 38 108 57.3198 gs: P4 gs:
I do not know, if this is a debian-problem or a teTeX-problem. I am
using the teTeX 1.0.7+20001- Version (woody-Distribution). The xdvi
script in /bin is using
xdvi.bin $NAMEOPT $args $filename, however
xdvi.bin does not exist. Its name is xdvi.real.
A debian problem.
Thomas
GNU Ghostscript 6.51 (2001-03-28)
...
mktexpk: Running gsftopk ptmr8r 1244 gsftopk(k) version 1.17gs:
#^ 1 20 90 38 108 57.3198 gs: P4 gs: 22 22 gs: gs: 95.7053 gs:
Works ok for me (I have compiled GNU gs6.51 just for this test):
$ gsftopk ptmr8r 1244
gsftopk(k) version
gmake[1]: ar: Command not found
I don't know how to proceed. Please help.
You should have ar in your PATH. Look at the manpage of ar to find
out where this program is stored on your disk. On Solaris 7, this is
/usr/ccs/bin.
Thomas
I came across this bug because one of my users used the pixpt metafont
mode (don't ask me why) for xdvi. The important feature of this mode is:
mode_param (pixels_per_inch, 72.27)
...
The problem is that mf calculates the resolution (dpi) to 150
because 2*72.27+5=149.54 is rounded to
I'm trying to use pdflatex which is part of the teTeX 1.0 distribution.
(downloaded from
ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib/...)
...
I've already downloaded the newest version of pdftex.def (from
ftp.dante.de).
Why? teTeX contains a pdftex.def which works fine with the
The file /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/fancybox/fancybox.doc from the
fancybox LaTex package is missing from teTeX. I don't think the
omission was intentional. The file can be processed with latex.
Thanks for pointing that out.
I prefer to have processed and ready-to-access documentation in the
I've been doing a little experimenting with the TEXMFLOG feature of the
kpathsea library. Has anyone else done much with it?
I have not really used this.
Looks like it could be used, with only a modest amount of wrapper
scripting, to really identify *all* the files used in a given LaTeX run
I'd use KPATHSEA_DEBUG=4 for that.
OK, that is a good suggestion to compare. I did a first test just now.
Setting TEXMFLOG seems somewhat easier, because then I don't have to do
any extra work to separate the kdebug:fopen lines from any other output
that may be going to stderr. But in a
work with laTeX files. I succesfully build dvi from tex, but
when I try to use the latex command, the error is I can't find
the format file 'latex.fmt'. And, sure enough, the teTeX from
Cygwin has no latex.fmt file (mikTeX does).
I have never tried the cygwin port myself, but you should run
this is probably simple, but I don't find the cause of the problem: I
wanted to add hyphenation patterns for spanish to the LaTeX on my system
run
fmtutil --byfmt latex
and see if the format is generated successfully and where it is stored.
Then, run latex with env-var KPATHSEA_DEBUG=4. If
, too, so please use a mirror
near to you.
BTW: for the third teTeX tarball (teTeX-src-beta-2804.tar.gz,
containing the sources for the binaries), we are quite sure that every
file is covered by a free software license.
Thank you for your help!
Thomas Esser
'texlinks' are run by 'texconfig' when adding a new format. On a multiple
platform installation of teTeX this isn't behaving as expected /
wanted. When I generate a new format (which is the same for all the
platforms) I expect links from format to engine to be added for _all_
platforms - not
I have never tried the cygwin port myself
Since ANNOUNCE has support for win32 systems will be added, too,
should we assume that you're that you're planning on getting it before
the next release?
The cygwin ports and fpTeX are two distributions for win32 which are
close to teTeX and
I recently compiled and installed tetex on my Linux computer.
I'm not using X-Windows so i configured with:
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-multiplatform --without-x
make world texconfig confall
This fails at texconfig, a screen appears and says that it cannot find xdvi
defaults.
I want to install a new version of teTeX.
On www.tug.org/teTeX I found all file inclusive binaries but I am a little
bit surprised -
the date of all files is february 2000 or older. Is that a new version or
where can I found a newer one?
If you go to the teTeX-beta area, you'll find
When is the next texfm beta coming? Are you still waiting for some
new releases of major packages - are there something that we can
do?
I am currently updating the texmf tree. When this is done, I will update
teTeX-beta. I am going to skip over web2c-7.3.2 and 7.3.3. The next
teTeX version
I am wondering, why the latest tetex does not include the latest pdftex 0.14h
from
ftp://ftp.muni.cz/pub/tex/local/cstug/thanh/pdftex/
teTeX-1.0 was released in June, 1999. At that time, there was no pdftex
0.14h.
but instead the older
[rainer@rai21] ~$ pdflatex -v
pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.1)
The problem I usually ran into was:
dvips -D XXX file.dvi
Just don't do this. Define a printer with dpi and mode and then
dvips -P... file.dvi -o
(only add -o if you don't want to print).
Or, if you really want ad hoc invocations without setting up a
config.PRINTER file, then say
dvips -D
In the doc/latex/amscls directory, there is a thmtest.dvi file.
However, this is not very useful; it's the source file thmtest.tex,
which provides an example file of how to use the amsthm package, which
should be distributed instead.
I think that I just have unzip'ed the archives that the
Since my disk storage has increased from 4Gbytes to 24Gbytes, I can now
have in parallel emTeX (which has several very useful features) and
TeXLive 6b contains parts of teTeX, but strictly speakingg, it is not
the same.
C:\tmppdftex null
This is pdfTeX, Version
gsftopk(k) version 1.17/700
gs7.00 is known to be broken wrt. font generation via gsftopk. Try a
different (earlier or later) version. I recommend the latest version
gs7.04:
$ gsftopk zpeubi 300
gsftopk(k) version 1.19/704
[32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41]...
...
I just received my latest TUGboat with Han's PhD thesis on extending
TeX. In it, he refers to several utility files such as efcode.tex and
protcode.tex. They are available on CTAN (systems/pdftex/ext); can
they go into teTeX? (Haven't checked the latest beta, but they
weren't in the
1) If you use Computer Modern font, then use dvips -G -Ppdf
(otherwise you lose things like half of integrals or large parentheses)
2) If you use an Adobe Postscript font, then use dvips -G0 -Ppdf
(otherwise you lose things like fi ff ligatures)
dvips -G0 -Ppdf is the same as
Sketch needs to know about the LaTeX fonts in order to display them In
particular a directory with the *afm files has to be added to the
sketch font path The afm files are not needed by LaTeX, so may not
So, just
cd texmf/fonts/afm
and all afm files will be there You still need the afm
texdoc -l -s 'regular-expression-for-grep'
Allowing regexp search is always a good idea Do we need an extra
commandline switch here? IMO it is sufficient to replace the
string-match by a regexp-match
texdoc usually uses kpsewhich to find files which is much faster than
scanning
First of all, thanks for all these suggestions about texdoc
1 Running texdoc with no arguments does nothing Why not make it run
the --help option?
Well, I don't know why it didn't do this from the beginning It was easy
to fix, though
2 It would be good if this command would show something
The tetex system contains some important perl scripts, for instance
epstopdf. Unfortunately, these scripts run only with bourne shell or
cshell, but not with bash (bash1, bash2). There are differences in case
of internal exec evaluation, in this case of the recursive determination
of perl
I suppose you implemented something that searches through the file
names?
Yes.
That is good, certainly, but what I wanted to suggest was an
idea of having something that searched through file *contents*. And this
would apply mainly for source forms like .tex or .dtx, since (at least
as
So one possible solution would be to add some lines to texmf/aliases:
pdftex.pdf pdftexman.pdf
omega.pdf omega-manual.pdf
etex.pdf etex-man.pdf
Good idea (but the order is wrong. Right is e.g. pdftexman.pdf
pdftex.pdf).
But when someone begins looking for documentation about pdftex,
I've just installed teTeX on a Sun system running Solaris 2.7.
How do I tell mktexpk to put the fonts it creates into
a directory defined by the user? Once upon a time,
with maketexpk, we used:
setenv MTPK_DESTROOT $HOME/tex/fonts
Just look at the variables in texmf/web2c/mktexnam. The
I am trying to install the latest teTeX beta. On SuSE Linux 7.2 it compiles
all right, but on Tru64 Unix V5.1, using GNU make and gcc, make all
exits with the following error message:
gcc xstat.c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -g -O2 -c -o STATIC/xstat.o
xstat.c:41:19: macro lstat
cxx -o pdftex pdftexini.o pdftex0.o pdftex1.o pdftex2.o pdftexextra.o
pdftexdir/libpdf.a ../../libs/libpng/libpng.a ../../libs/zlib/libz.a
pdftexdir/xpdf-0.80/xpdf/pdftoepdf.a pdftexdir/xpdf-0.80/goo/libGoo.a
lib/lib.a ../kpathsea/STATIC/libkpathsea.a -lm
ld:
load_compressed_file could not
I work as a usual user on a teTeX system (UNIX). When kpathsea has to
generate
new fonts it tries to generate them on a read-only file system (see
below). Is it possible to let kpathsea generate these fonts in a directory
in my home account? And can I do this by setting an environment
I think that most important thing to be resolved before the final
release of TL7 is that Xdvi cannot run on *still* widely used RH6.x
(missing shared libraries: libXaw.so.7).
I got many messages concerning that...
Find a system with a static version of libXaw, then we can use that
system to
while upgrading my SuSE 7.3 to SuSE 8.0 the tetex rpm was upgraded from
1.0.7-285 to beta.20020207-70. Now the problem seems to be that in that new
...
Now my question is: Has cmbright been removed from tetex? (If yes, why?) How
can I get that package and include it in my tex installation?
1. I can't get my path commands to stick. When I issue
export PATH=$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
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
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