Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom, Ubuntu and texlive

2014-06-05 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 06/05/2014 11:59 AM, Michel Lavaud wrote: >> I don't like .dvi and .pdf. These are binary formats. Source counts. > In theory, in a world with perfect humans Ah... again this reality... as a mathematician that's usually to be neglected. ;-) > approach also used for ArXiV (if it didn't chan

Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom, Ubuntu and texlive

2014-06-05 Thread Michel Lavaud
Le 05/06/2014 09:33, Ralf Hemmecke a écrit : And rigor, I suppose? pdf format is not frozen, pdf viewers are not bug-free. Remember an RMLL conference in Metz where the pdf file of a colleague didn't display some text of the file. dvi format is very simple and frozen, dvi viewers exist and can b

Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom, Ubuntu and texlive

2014-06-05 Thread daly
Methinks I missed a memo somewhere along the way. I don't recall any discussion about rigor. >> And rigor, I suppose? pdf format is not frozen, pdf viewers are not >> bug-free. Remember an RMLL conference in Metz where the pdf file of a >> colleague didn't display some text of the file. dvi for

Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom, Ubuntu and texlive

2014-06-05 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
> And rigor, I suppose? pdf format is not frozen, pdf viewers are not > bug-free. Remember an RMLL conference in Metz where the pdf file of a > colleague didn't display some text of the file. dvi format is very > simple and frozen, dvi viewers exist and can be supposed bug-free for > these reason.

Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom, Ubuntu and texlive

2014-06-05 Thread Michel Lavaud
Le 04/06/2014 18:31, u1204 a écrit : I believe I've solved the dvipdfm problem. For what reason is dvipdfm in the code anyway? Sounds like Axiom uses tex->dvi->pdf instead of directly going with pdflatex: .tex -> .pdf. Or am I missing something? History, actually. At one point Axiom was going

Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom, Ubuntu and texlive

2014-06-04 Thread u1204
>> I believe I've solved the dvipdfm problem. > >For what reason is dvipdfm in the code anyway? > >Sounds like Axiom uses tex->dvi->pdf instead of directly going with >pdflatex: .tex -> .pdf. Or am I missing something? History, actually. At one point Axiom was going to use an open source dvi viewe

Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom, Ubuntu and texlive

2014-06-04 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 06/04/2014 10:05 AM, d...@axiom-developer.org wrote: > I believe I've solved the dvipdfm problem. For what reason is dvipdfm in the code anyway? Sounds like Axiom uses tex->dvi->pdf instead of directly going with pdflatex: .tex -> .pdf. Or am I missing something? Ralf _

[Axiom-developer] Axiom, Ubuntu and texlive

2014-06-04 Thread daly
Cliff, I believe I've solved the dvipdfm problem. I want to do a bit more testing but it appears to be fixed. Thanks for the heads-up. Tim ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-devel

[Axiom-developer] Axiom, Ubuntu and texlive

2014-06-03 Thread C Y
Just thought I'd post a quick note for anyone on Ubuntu that is seeing hanging behaviour building Axiom: It looks like the texlive distributed with Ubuntu these days needs \documentclass[dvipdfmx] instead of \documentclass[dvipdfm]: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/154502/dvipdfm-def-not-