Hi all! On Fre, 22 Sep 2006, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > Aargh! What is the canonical way to activate hyphenations and other > language support of desired languages for LaTeX and friends? Running
For texlive as you did, install texlive-lang-*. This is the first time that I heard that this didn't work. So let's find the problem. > "dpkg-reconfigure tex-common" did not provide that familiar debconf-dialog > for choosing hyphention and other language support. What should I do? This has nothing to do with tex-common, but with the texlive-lang-* packages. > What will happen, if I purge and re-install all TeX-related packages? > I fear I will lose also Finnish hyphenation in that process. Nothing. Or better, it depends on how you installed the finnish patterns. > ii texlive-base-bin 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Essential binaries > ii texlive-common 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Base component > ii texlive-doc-base 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Base documentation Which pther texlive packages do yuou have installed On Sam, 23 Sep 2006, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > > > I also installed packages texlive-lang-french and texlive-lang-italian . > > > A file called /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat was not > > > properly generated. > > > In what sense was it not properly generated? How did you determin that? > > That file said nothing about Italian and French. This is very strange. Can you take a look into /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-lang-french.postinst and check whether there is a call for update-languages? (Sorry I am away from any of my computers with texlive so I cannot check myself). > > # fmutil-sys --all > > > > should regenerate all format files with hyphenation enabled based on the > > configuration files in /etc/texmf/language.d/. If that does not help, > > then we will need some more informations for debugging. > > I tried those two commands, but it did not help: Can you send us the output of the fmtutil-sys --all call, best by doing (under (ba)sh): fmtutil-sys --all > foo.log 2>&1 and send us foo.log As usual I can only ask my crystal ball and it is very unclear, so maybe there are some points I want to know: - does the directory /root/.texmf-config exist and what files are in there - same for /root/.texmf-var - same for /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/ Thanks a lot Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Università di Siena Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEMBLEY (n.) The hideous moment of confirmation that the disaster presaged in the ely (q.v.) has actually struck. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]