Re: bbdb and latex
On Thu May 5 2011 Marco Wahl wrote: I tried out the bbdb-print function together with latex for getting a nice list of the bbdb records. As suggested in bbdb-print.el I used the tex-files bbdb-print.tex, bbdb-print-brief.tex, and bbdb-cols.tex (from bbdb.cvs.sourceforge.net). But this does not work for me. The latex-compile fails. And AFAICS there are lots of latex compile-problems. I suspect the tex-files mentioned above being too old for a recent tex installation. You need to run plain TeX, not LaTeX. This works for me. Roland PS: Upgrade of all the code to LaTeX is probably useful, though I have not yet looked into this. -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: bbdb and latex
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: On Thu May 5 2011 Marco Wahl wrote: I tried out the bbdb-print function together with latex for getting a nice list of the bbdb records. As suggested in bbdb-print.el I used the tex-files bbdb-print.tex, bbdb-print-brief.tex, and bbdb-cols.tex (from bbdb.cvs.sourceforge.net). But this does not work for me. The latex-compile fails. And AFAICS there are lots of latex compile-problems. I suspect the tex-files mentioned above being too old for a recent tex installation. You need to run plain TeX, not LaTeX. This works for me. You are right. Thanks for the hint. 'tex bbdb.tex' does the job. The list looks good. Just for the record: with the environment here (emacs24, TeX 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2010/Arch Linux)) tex could not handle the line \catcode`ß=\active\chardefß=FF Tex compiles when this line is deleted. \bye Marco -- Marco Wahl +49 7071 70 97 52 +49 176 43 01 70 69 -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: bbdb and latex
On Thu May 5 2011 Marco Wahl wrote: Just for the record: with the environment here (emacs24, TeX 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2010/Arch Linux)) tex could not handle the line \catcode`ß=\active\chardefß=FF Tex compiles when this line is deleted. Thanks. Indeed, this line could be a relict from old times. Roland -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
