Bug#542463: [tex-live] Bug#542463: vlna program missing from texlive-lang-czechslovak

2009-08-20 Thread Karl Berry
It's only present on Windows. Not so. It is on all platforms now. $ pwd .../Master/bin $ lsd */vlna* -rwxr-xr-x 1 karl root 19776 Jun 30 10:26 alpha-linux/vlna -rwxr-xr-x 1 karl root 11278 Aug 13 20:04 i386-cygwin/vlna.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 karl root 14268 Sep 12 2008 i386-freebsd/vlna

Bug#534199: [tex-live] Bug#534199: texlive-formats-extra: does not install: 5 year bug

2009-06-23 Thread Karl Berry
We either have to patch latex.ltx No. or patch the .ini files to contain scrollmode? Yes. Go ahead and do it if you want, or wait for me if you have to :). karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#531595: [tex-live] Supporting old releases: Using LaTeX after more than 5 years

2009-06-11 Thread Karl Berry
I attach the patch against current TeX Live's fmtutil in Build/source/texk/tetex/fmtutil. Looks fine to me. I applied it. Thanks, karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#531595: [tldistro] Supporting old releases: Using LaTeX after more than 5 years

2009-06-07 Thread Karl Berry
Therefore I suggest to patch fmtutil's error detection mechanism and add a special case for LaTeX's 5-year-warning. I didn't know/had forgotten LaTeX had such a warning. Should I write such a patch, would it be accepted? Yes. Thanks, Karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#487974: tilde in file names, still a problem

2009-03-16 Thread Karl Berry
Hmm, but doesn't that mean that if the .texi file now contains foo~bar then it will come out as foo~bar in the dvi file? It does mean that, and that's the way it's always been, and the way it should be, ~ being a normal character in Texinfo ... am I missing

Bug#487974: tilde in file names, still a problem

2009-03-15 Thread Karl Berry
calling texi2dvi /path/with~tilde/in/the/path.texi breaks I installed the patch below (modulo documentation, etc.) to support tildes. There's an undocumented -~ option to avoid all this madness in case it's totally broken. Hope none of these literal tildes mess anything up. More special

Bug#487974: tilde in file names, still a problem

2009-03-13 Thread Karl Berry
Can one of you imagine any way to fix that problem? I can imagine ways, like running tex differently: tex '\catcode126=12 \input foo~bar/baz.texi' It will take some time to figure out if it can really work. Patches welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#518800: [tex-live] lamsarrow.sty non-free?

2009-03-10 Thread Karl Berry
%- LamS-TeX copyright - % COPYRIGHT (C) 1989, 1990, 1991 by the Texplorators Corporation, % 1572 West Gray #377, Houston, TX 77019-4948 (ALL RIGHTS RESERVED) %-- That

Bug#491354: texlive-fonts-extra: No license statement for wsuipa fonts

2008-07-23 Thread Karl Berry
IMHO this is not enough for removal neither from TeX Live upsream nor Debian. I don't plan to remove the wsuipa fonts without some actual confirmation that they are nonfree. Until then, I assume it is carelessness, as in so many other cases. I guess I'll write Pierre MacKay (UW

Bug#489943: [tex-live] Bug#489943: texlive-base-bin: mktexpk does not work in directories containing spaces

2008-07-08 Thread Karl Berry
So my patch additionally includes a replacement of those two statements with ${var##pattern} and ${var%pattern} expansions. These expansions are POSIX and should thus be reasonably portable. Sorry, POSIX introduced many incompatible shell constructs (and command line options,

Bug#489943: [tex-live] Bug#489943: texlive-base-bin: mktexpk does not work in directories containing spaces

2008-07-08 Thread Karl Berry
Thanks for the report, but ... However I also noticed use of echo+sed dirname replacement (with comment can't rely on dirname -- basename was relied on on the next line though), Well, that's because basename can be relied on :). which would have problems with spaces at the end

Bug#488038: [tex-live] Bug#488038: texlive-base-bin: kpsewhere weirdness

2008-06-25 Thread Karl Berry
kpsewhere acts very strangely here. It looks as if the whole concept of kpsewhere flawed, maybe only in newer web2c/libkpathsea versions? I've never understood/maintained/looked at kpsewhere. This is what I get in native TL (development): $ kpsewhere texmf.cnf

Bug#458059: [tex-k] Bug#458059:

2008-05-31 Thread Karl Berry
The attached file gives an error Stijn, I'm not sure if you ever found the resolution. Using \loggingall on your source quickly shows there is, as Taco et al. surmised, an infinite loop. The log file ends with this: ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...nd \z@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@@p \boldmath {{b^c}}

Bug#481371: [tex-live] mktexlsr should exclude more VCS dirs

2008-05-18 Thread Karl Berry
+ VCSDIRS='\(\.svn\|\.git\|\.bzr\|\.hg\|_darcs\)' (cd $TEXMFLS_R \ls -LRa 2/dev/null) \ - | sed -e '/^$/{n;s%^\./%%;s%^%./%;}; /^\.$/d; /^\.\.$/d; /^\.svn$/d;' \ + | sed -e '/^$/{n;s%^\./%%;s%^%./%;}; /^\.$/d; /^\.\.$/d; /^'$VCSDIRS'$/d;' \ -e

Bug#446133: ITP crypt++el

2008-05-13 Thread Karl Berry
I intend to reintroduce crypt++el into Debian because I think we still I haven't tracked it down yet, but on the face of it, crypt++ doesn't work with Emacs 22. When I visit a .tar.gz file, it doesn't get uncompressed. jka-compr.el warns that users have to take out all the compression

Bug#472758: texi2dvi -l Texinfo and texi2dvi -l LaTeX do not work

2008-05-11 Thread Karl Berry
-l, --language=LANGspecify the LANG of FILE (LaTeX or Texinfo) I changed it to use latex and texinfo. there was no change in 4.12. I never saw the bug report before. I'm sure there are many bugs (and fixes) in all the distro tracking systems, but unfortunately I have never

Bug#477160: [tex-live] Bug#477160: /usr/bin/xdvizilla: should be installed in /usr/lib/.../

2008-04-24 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Stefan, So maybe we can just remove it from the binary distribution, but keep the sources in the CVS so that people who use the script can still download it? Sounds good to me. So can you apply the patch below (or similar) to your source for your next release? I checked it in to

Bug#477160: [tex-live] Bug#477160: /usr/bin/xdvizilla: should be installed in /usr/lib/.../

2008-04-22 Thread Karl Berry
... and I am wondering whether xdvizilla is useful at all for anything Seems like it could be removed to me, but this is a question for the xdvi maintainers. Stefan, I see you're on this list ... ? karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#446476: [tex-live] Bug#446476: natbib cannot handle utf8

2008-02-07 Thread Karl Berry
How should we proceed now? Move ucs from texlive-latex-recommended to texlive-latex-extra to narrow the user base of that package? I think that would be a good idea, but it should first be done in the upstream collections. What do others think? I moved ucs from

Bug#419235: [tex-live] Bug#419235: Do you want to keep on maintaining pbox-tex?

2008-02-04 Thread Karl Berry
On CTAN, there's the dtx and ins file and a pbox.pdf, which seems to I updated pbox in TL; now pbox.pdf is included. Thanks, karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#388684: coreutils: info ls opens the man page, not the info documentation

2008-01-27 Thread Karl Berry
Maybe the better fix would be renaming all the nodes in coreutils.texi to comply with this convention? I think the node names should stay as they are. The convention is either Invoking xxx or xxx invocation. http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Manual-Structure-Details.html I

Bug#388684: coreutils: info ls opens the man page, not the info documentation

2008-01-27 Thread Karl Berry
jimm info simply displays the first node it finds with a name matching jimm pr. In my case, it is currently the PreScript node of a2ps.info. What? That makes no sense to me at all. Info doesn't look inside every info file randomly looking for nodes to match. It has to be in a dir

Bug#388684: coreutils: info ls opens the man page, not the info documentation

2008-01-27 Thread Karl Berry
mstone The debian install-info routine (IIRC) predates the gnu install-info, That wasn't my understanding, but I never actually researched it. I was not aware of any Debian ii at the time that rms wrote GNU ii (I was maintaining Texinfo by then -- 1996), but then, I probably wouldn't

Bug#457741: again direntry problems

2008-01-23 Thread Karl Berry
@direntry * ZSH: (zsh). The Z Shell Manual. @end direntry I made the change below to work around this buggy input. Hope it doesn't cause undue distress. Meanwhile, how about patching the zsh manual, or at least reporting the problem to them, if zsh is still

Bug#457741: again direntry problems

2008-01-14 Thread Karl Berry
Do you have a good suggestion how to fix that? Just have to forcibly remove leading whitespace from `line', I guess. I'll look into it. At least Debian i-i which will still be around for some time, but we are working hard on it!) I hope you are aware that Ben Asselstine has

Bug#451268: wrong direntries from makeinfo 4.11

2007-12-19 Thread Karl Berry
With 4.11 PLUS your patch from the above it is still happening, Ah, the case before had a @dircategory. I didn't try without. (I surmise that's the difference, anyway.) - insert_string (START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY\n); + add_word (START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY\n); I installed it. Thanks

Bug#433137: texlive-fonts-recommended: No license information for utopia and fpl

2007-11-27 Thread Karl Berry
should we start NOW a repackaging effort as Frank pointed out some time ago, I don't have the energy, myself. The whole infrastructure reimplementation seems like more than enough to tackle for one year ... karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#433329: Please clarify whether Lucida Bright/Lucida Sans fonts are supported

2007-11-27 Thread Karl Berry
tmmath, hvmath? Should we do the same there? Indeed. I've removed tmmath and hvmath from TL. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#450875: [tex-live] Bug#450875: patgen: Does not seem to generate anything useful

2007-11-25 Thread Karl Berry
patgen can only read files containing ONLY \patterns{...} I updated the man page to try to describe this better (among other things). See attached. Thanks, k patgen.man Description: Binary data

Bug#451954: Subtle problem with gettext.info

2007-11-24 Thread Karl Berry
INFO-DIR-SECTION GNU Gettext Utilities START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY This is gettext.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.11 from gettext.texi. It's a (quite unfortunate) bug, and I think I've fixed it for the next Texinfo release. karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#450875: [tex-live] Bug#450875: patgen: Does not seem to generate anything useful

2007-11-18 Thread Karl Berry
I have to change the file to: I agree the documentation should be improved. I don't think it's worth hacking the program to try to somehow parse out the patterns. karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#450875: [tex-live] Bug#450875: patgen: Does not seem to generate anything useful

2007-11-17 Thread Karl Berry
patgen can only read files containing ONLY \patterns{...} As opposed to what? I wouldn't expect patgen to parse .tex files. As far as I can tell from a quick glance at patgen.web, it reads a hyph-en-ated word list and (optionally) existing patterns (and an auxiliary translate file), and

Bug#447081: [tex-live] buffer overflow in dvips -

2007-10-21 Thread Karl Berry
Could you or anyone else please take a look at this, give your comments (please leave the Cc on list, especially the Debian bug report). Well, it is certainly a good thing to avoid the fixed-length buffer. I applied the patch, modulo error message wording. Thanks! Karl -- To

Bug#446476: [texhax] Bug#446476: Bug#446476: natbib cannot handle utf8

2007-10-14 Thread Karl Berry
it is not clear where they get their advice from. Sebastian decided as best he could, many years ago. Very little has changed in the set of recommended TL packages for a long time now. Anyway, the main point here is not the classification of ucs, but rather the possible bug in it. I see

Bug#443884: [tex-live] Bug#443884: texlive-fonts-extra: pk files in doc tree

2007-09-25 Thread Karl Berry
/usr/share/doc/texlive-fonts-extra/latex/cmastro/cmastro10.300pk They are gone. $ mktexpk cmastro10.300pk mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for cmastro10.300pk. mktexpk isn't that smart. You have to say mktexpk cmastro10 and ask for the resolution with cmdline

Bug#433455: [tex-live] Bug#433455: Bug#433455: /usr/bin/pdftex: $TEXEDITdefault doesn't cope with spaces in filenames

2007-09-11 Thread Karl Berry
+#ifdef WIN32 +#define EDITOR emacs +%d \%s\ +#else #define EDITOR vi +%d '%s' +#endif Thanks, I installed that change. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#433455: [tex-live] Bug#433455: /usr/bin/pdftex: $TEXEDIT default doesn't cope with spaces in filenames

2007-09-10 Thread Karl Berry
Unless the OS ending with `$' - err, `s' likes better, I prefer ''. I committed the change using '%s'. Akira, please let me know if that causes problems for you and %s would be better. Thanks, karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#433455: [tex-live] Bug#433455: /usr/bin/pdftex: $TEXEDIT default doesn't cope with spaces in filenames

2007-09-09 Thread Karl Berry
Regarding filenames containing spaces and the TEXEDIT et al. values: 1) is there any reason not to change the compile-time default in web2c/c-auto.in? If you want to add the definitions in the Debian texmf.cnf, that's fine, of course, but I don't see why the default shouldn't change

Bug#439877: texinfo: texi2pdf doesn't work if a ~ is in the file path

2007-08-28 Thread Karl Berry
Do you have any idea how this could be fixed? When I run the current texi2dvi in a directory named `x~', I do not get an error in the default (local) --build mode, as Christian (hi Christian) is apparently invoking it. So maybe try the current source from CVS, to see if that works now? It

Bug#433137: texlive-fonts-recommended: No license information for utopia and fpl

2007-08-27 Thread Karl Berry
Regarding the license info for utopia, I added the {README,LICENSE}*.txt files to TL, in texmf-dist/doc/fonts/utopia. One thing I'm wondering about is where the tfm/vf's on CTAN came from. Does anyone know if there are fontinst sources floating around somewhere? Or something? When I created the

Bug#433137: texlive-fonts-recommended: No license information for utopia and fpl

2007-08-27 Thread Karl Berry
CTAN:/fonts/psfonts/psnfss-source/utopia/ Thanks. How is that solved for other map files in psnfss (chrter.map, fpls.map, pazo.map)? All of those map files are in psnfss too. Oh well, I'm not going to pursue it. Life is too short. Best, Karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#433329: Please clarify whether Lucida Bright/Lucida Sans fonts are supported

2007-08-27 Thread Karl Berry
Yes - this should probably be fixed by including CTAN://fonts/psfonts/bh/lucida/doc/fonts/lucida/readme.lucida: I fixed it by removing all of the Lucida support files from TL instead. Unlike some of the others, they are separate on CTAN and part of psnfssx rather than psnfss, so it was

Bug#433137: texlive-fonts-recommended: No license information for utopia and fpl

2007-08-26 Thread Karl Berry
Regarding the license README etc. for fpl, I've updated the fpl package in TeX Live from what is on CTAN now. Let me know if you spot any problems. Utopia is another matter, I'll write about that separately (later). Thanks, Karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#435132: [tex-live] Bug#435132: texlive-metapost: Please include latest latexmp version

2007-08-09 Thread Karl Berry
Thank you very much - his address is still the one above? That is where I wrote, yes. No answer yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#435132: [tex-live] Bug#435132: texlive-metapost: Please include latest latexmp version

2007-08-08 Thread Karl Berry
The version of latexmp included with texlive-metapost, version 1.1.0, I updated latexmp in the source repo. I also wrote the author about releasing the source to the doc. Thanks, k -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#433455: [tex-live] Bug#433455: /usr/bin/pdftex: $TEXEDIT default doesn't cope with spaces in filenames

2007-07-24 Thread Karl Berry
TEXEDIT = ${EDITOR:-vi} +%d %s work and respect the EDITOR environment variable? Well, texmfmp.c ends up calling system(3) on the string, so it would seem so, but when I actually tried it, it didn't seem to work. I dunno. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#433329: [tex-live] Bug#433329: Bug#433329: Please clarify whether Lucida Bright/Lucida Sans fonts are supported

2007-07-23 Thread Karl Berry
documentation is there, in collection-fontsrecommended (as part of psnfssx). Oh yeah. The place to fix this is psnfssx; I'd prefer to have the Lucida styles/docs removed too, but it doesn't make sense for TL to do something different than CTAN here. I haven't yet written the maintainers

Bug#433329: [tex-live] Bug#433329: Please clarify whether Lucida Bright/Lucida Sans fonts are supported

2007-07-22 Thread Karl Berry
Wouldn't it be the case for having the support files for non-free fonts As far as I know, the Lucida metrics are not included in TeX Live 2007. Frank or anyone, if there's an issue for TL here, please explain. Karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#433455: [tex-live] Bug#433455: Bug#433455: /usr/bin/pdftex: $TEXEDIT default doesn't cope with spaces in filenames

2007-07-22 Thread Karl Berry
don't think it makes much sense to change it [in c-auto.in] Why not? Better include it in texmf.cnf, making it more visible. Including every possible variable in texmf.cnf just for visibility doesn't exactly seem desirable to me. Although I suppose it's pretty close to that now! Best,

Bug#428014: [tex-live] Inclusion of large eps files with dvipdfm

2007-06-22 Thread Karl Berry
-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=50 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=50 Akira, does this sound like a good solution to you? (It seems ok to me.) I'm not sure whether we need even more 0s, If I'm doing my arithmetic right, 500,000 points is more than 150 yards/meters. I find it hard to picture

Bug#425085: [tex-live] Bug#425085: texlive-doc-en: catalogue entries with dangling links

2007-06-21 Thread Karl Berry
since it is a one-time exercise, I don't understand. Any massaging process will be rerun a zillion times, since of course the Catalogue is being updated constantly. (Not that I have any objection to Elisp myself.) karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#425085: [tex-live] Bug#425085: texlive-doc-en: catalogue entries with dangling links

2007-06-21 Thread Karl Berry
texlive location='footmisc'/ ... /entry [the id is the name of the xml file (and hence the name of the converted html file); the texlive location is the name of the tpm file.] given that info, one could in principle match things up, presumably? Yes, thanks. That

Bug#425085: [tex-live] Bug#425085: texlive-doc-en: catalogue entries with dangling links

2007-06-20 Thread Karl Berry
Doesn't look straightforward to fix - any ideas? We will probably reinstate the Catalogue in TL, and when we do, I guess we should not just copy the files, but set up some kind of conversion process. Ugh. Does MiKTeX contain the Catalogue? If so, are the links properly transformed? If so,

Bug#429701: texinfo: inconsistency concerning the number of spaces after a period

2007-06-20 Thread Karl Berry
Foo. Bar. Foo. Bar. I can agree it's a bug, but makeinfo has always simply copied intraline spaces (Foo. Bar.) as-is, and I, at least, am not likely to implement anything different in the foreseeable future, if ever. makeinfo has no real understanding of text at all. I

Bug#423987: [tex-live] Bug#423987: Some documentation is missing /usr/share/texmf-texlive/texdoctk/texdoctk.dat

2007-05-19 Thread Karl Berry
So there are probably false positives, but what about abstract, accents, acronym, aeguill? I do not know of any attempt to ever sync texdoctk.dat between TL and teTeX, so it is not surprising there are differences in every direction. If you or anyone would like to maintain that file,

Bug#420394: [tex-live] How to handle interdependencies of collections

2007-05-09 Thread Karl Berry
Where is bigfoot now? collection-humanities None of that is specific to humanities at all. Happy to hear this. I moved it to collection-latexextra. Thanks, k -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#420394: [tex-live] How to handle interdependencies of collections (was: Bug#420394: texlive-latex-extra: acronym.sty requires suffix.sty from texlive-humanities)

2007-05-08 Thread Karl Berry
but collection-humanities does not require collection-latexextra. (In fact, it does not require any collection, not even latexbase, but that might be because some are generic macros.) It would be ok for collection-humanities to require latexbase (I assume that is collection-latex in

Bug#266718: [tex-live] [tex-k] Bug#266718: dvips font inclusion broken in TeXlive

2007-05-03 Thread Karl Berry
But please test the following change (I don't know whether it is related to the problem). I installed this change in TL, since it's obviously desirable, independent of the present bug. (I gather it didn't help.) More later, I hope. Thanks, k -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#412242: [tex-live] mktexnam and SYSTEXMF (was: Bug#412242: tetex-bin: mktexpk places some fonts in the current directory)

2007-03-06 Thread Karl Berry
TEXMFSYSVAR is not in SYSTEXMF. Does anybody know why this is so? I don't recall an explicit decision being made. Is there any reason not to include TEXMFSYSVAR in the future? Doing this makes sense to me, but I'd like to get Thomas E's opinion. Thomas? Thanks, k -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#380128: info: Incorrect (?) (unclear) copyright statement

2006-08-08 Thread Karl Berry
That sound fine for me. But also if you issue: info --version Oh. My mistake. help2man just includes the output of --version, I forgot that. Also here the version 2 or (at your option) any later version is missing. Thats what caused me to open this bug: both the man page

Bug#380128: info: Incorrect (?) (unclear) copyright statement

2006-08-08 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Helge, Then this topic should be discussed in an appropriate form at some I know of no appropriate forum, but I'll ask rms at some point about changing and standardizing the wording of --version output for GNU packages. Best, karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#380128: info: Incorrect (?) (unclear) copyright statement

2006-08-07 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Norbert, Maybe this email got lost somewhere, so Sorry, I've been away. Since the file COPYING is not shipped by Debian, I could not check there. Of course the COPYING file in Texinfo is just the GPL, as it is in virtually every (original) GNU distribution. Changing every

Bug#354604: [tex-live] [patch] fmtutil and formats that preload other formats

2006-07-23 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Frank, fmtutil sets and exports TEXINPUTS=$tmpdir:$TEXINPUTS, but that is not sufficient. One has to set TEXFORMATS, too. I have just installed your patch to fmtutil (tweaked the comments a tiny bit) in TL development ... Thanks, k -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#358330: [tex-k] Re: Bug#358330: [tex-live] KPSE_DOT in fmtutil: Why set to `pwd`?

2006-07-14 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Julian and all, This next patch does the job correctly. An alternative, simpler, patch follows below, which does not remove the empty path element. I installed the first of your two alternative patches, the one which does remove the empty path elements. Why not. I also restored /.

Bug#363061: [tex-live] Unclear License of AMSLaTeX

2006-04-28 Thread Karl Berry
- the current LPPL allows to change the internal identification as an alternative to renaming the file, and Indeed, this is the main difference between the Knuth license and the current LPPL, as I know you know. - it does not permit to distribute changed versions, even when

Bug#364505: [tex-k] Bug#364505: dvips: the -T options doesn't always act as asked

2006-04-25 Thread Karl Berry
+Be careful, as the paper size will stick to a predefined size if there +is one close enough. To disable this behavior, use @samp{-tunknown}. Thanks Vincent. I'll make that change in the doc (or some equivalent). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#358330: [tex-k] Re: Bug#358330: [tex-live] KPSE_DOT in fmtutil: Why set to `pwd`?

2006-03-27 Thread Karl Berry
I think that the correct solution is to replace the final default else with the conditional test: } else if (elt[0] != 0) { /* empty components can appear in TEXMFCNF; we skip over these */ Sounds reasonable to me. Thomas, Olaf? Thanks Julian (and all). karl --

Bug#358330: [tex-k] Re: Bug#358330: [tex-live] KPSE_DOT in fmtutil: Why set to `pwd`?

2006-03-27 Thread Karl Berry
Someone did not like this /. and has removed it. Karl? Olaf? :-) I don't remember doing so, although I may have in a fit of madness. I can put it back. I guess TETEXDIR is always specified as an absolute path? Or am I missing something else? Thanks, Karl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#358330: [tex-live] KPSE_DOT in fmtutil: Why set to `pwd`?

2006-03-24 Thread Karl Berry
Can somebody explain to me the reason for [KPSE_DOT] I've forgotten, if I ever knew. Thomas? I have a few observations, not especially related to the original report. 1) kpathsea/expand.c says (and implements): /* If $KPSE_DOT is defined in the environment, prepend it to any relative

Bug#357009: Inclusion of new texinfo.tex breaks other packages

2006-03-16 Thread Karl Berry
texinfo.tex and advised me to include the current texinfo.tex, as it will not break other things. Well, I hope I didn't make quite such a blanket statement! What I know is that the currently distributed texinfo.tex (tug.org/tex/texinfo.tex) fixes many bugs over the one in 4.8. Of course

Bug#356853: [tex-live] Bug#356853: tetex-extra: No license information for bbm fonts

2006-03-14 Thread Karl Berry
have any licensing information. They are catalogue'ed as unknown and have no license statement in the files. Sigh. I'm sure Gilles simply copied an older version of the CM files which did not have license statements, and intended the same license as CM (inasmuch as he thought about it

Bug#356916: GFDL docs in texinfo

2006-03-14 Thread Karl Berry
- you relicense the documentation in dual GPL/GFDL form (but you told me that RMS forbids this for GNU documents) Right. (Sigh.) - you remove the requirement on the Cover text I cannot do so. The GNU standards require those cover texts. (Therefore Debian's latest resolution will

Bug#113988: Bug#355367: debuild: Preserving locale settings can affect build

2006-03-10 Thread Karl Berry
Will this patch also be applied upstream? Some variation thereof. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#113988: Bug#355367: debuild: Preserving locale settings can affect build

2006-03-07 Thread Karl Berry
but what I did is the following: Wow, thanks!! I tested the attached patch against texinfo/makeinfo 4.8 and it worked, Please say exactly how you tested it, ie, which environment variables you set to what, what the makeinfo invocation was, what the input file was. I have had a great

Bug#113988: Bug#355367: debuild: Preserving locale settings can affect build

2006-03-07 Thread Karl Berry
Maybe make info used a unpatched makeinfo? Info output must not and does not translate Next: and so on, because they are effectively keywords -- Info readers would stop working if they were translated. Norbert's patch changed the HTML output, which is fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#354604: [tex-live] [patch] fmtutil and formats that preload other formats

2006-03-02 Thread Karl Berry
fmtutil sets and exports TEXINPUTS=$tmpdir:$TEXINPUTS, but that is not sufficient. One has to set TEXFORMATS, too. I therefore suggest the following patch, based on teTeX-3.0's version: I don't see why not. Thomas? Thanks, k -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#234848: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-02-25 Thread Karl Berry
FIrst: What do you get when you make man Top No manual entry for Top. And I assume that this returns the manpage for Top, which is here on my system the same as man top. Sounds right to me. I'm just guessing, since I still can't reproduce this bug any more, but how

Bug#234848: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-02-13 Thread Karl Berry
Attached dir.gz Was missing I still get the error message instead of the top man page. Using INFOPATH=~/tmp ./ginfo ./foobar However, messing around with gdb, I surmise that the man page was being generated by this code at the end of info_get_node: /* If the node not found was Top,

Bug#234848: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-02-12 Thread Karl Berry
Did you compare the DIR files you have on your machines? Perhaps some entry there references top, with the intent to get to the Top node... There is no top in my dir file. I've never seen a top entry in a dir file, actually. But sure, it still could be that, or something else, about

Bug#234848: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-02-11 Thread Karl Berry
Does your info also go to make_manpage_node and returns a if (node) true? I take it back. I fixed my man setup but make_manpage_node still returns zero. Not surprising, because it's being called with pagename=./asdkiafdasdf, rather than top. So why is yours asking for top's man page?

Bug#234848: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-02-10 Thread Karl Berry
Does your info also go to make_manpage_node and returns a if (node) true? It returns NULL -- because man top fails for me! (Long story.) Ok, I will have to see if we can get the good error even when man pages are properly installed :). Thanks much for pushing this. k -- To

Bug#214729: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-02-07 Thread Karl Berry
Line 6780 column 91: document type does not allow element SMALL here. ...ls(1)/a program small class=dots.../small Line 8421 column 25: document type does not allow element PRE here; Line 8424 column 24: document type does not allow element P here; Line 9322 column 24:

Bug#214729: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-02-06 Thread Karl Berry
WIth HTML 4.01 Transitional for texinfo.html I get only 4 errors. Just out of curiousity, what are those four errors? Thanks, k -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#234848: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-02-06 Thread Karl Berry
$ info/ginfo ./notexistingfile and I landed at the manpage of top What is wrong here??? Sorry, I can't explain it. I do get the No menu item error, with precisely your invocation. Comes from line 2551 in session.c, I guess Maybe it's related to the dir file contents somehow

Bug#335016: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-02-06 Thread Karl Berry
http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/dtd/4.8/texinfo.dtd:2: parser error : Comment not terminated !-- $Id: texinfo.dtd,v 1.2 2006/01/31 00:45:48 karl E Document Type Definition for Texinfo XML output (--xml). Wow, XML does not allow comments including the string --? Pardon me for

Bug#218557: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-02-06 Thread Karl Berry
- a part of the file only is corrupted, but neither did info mention it was corrupted, nor could it use the non-corrupted part, so I believe there is an abort strategy in place[1], but it doesn't expose failures, You said that it reported the error, Could not find node

Bug#147483: 2 problems with pdf bookmarks

2006-02-03 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Norbert, Subsubsection without subsection within a section are on the wrong level Sorry, I can't get excited about this one. It seems a lot to ask for the bookmarks to be correct when the document structuring is incorrect. No doubt it could be fixed with enough time effort, and if

Bug#37515: 2 problems with pdf bookmarks

2006-02-03 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Norbert, In the testfile we have the following bookmarks: appendix A: first appendix A.1 first section of appendix A.1.1 subsection A.2 second section of appendix A.3 third section of appendix. Unfortunately the jumping of bookmarks is simple, but

Bug#146133: info goto node with dot

2006-02-02 Thread Karl Berry
anymore, eg the above example tells you that there is no node yes invocation. Oops, of course. If you don't have a genius idea how to overcome this problem My only idea is far from genius -- Emacs Info must have solved this somehow (since it can find Matching vs. Searching,

Bug#335016: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-01-30 Thread Karl Berry
All I can offer is http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/texi2latex/xslt/texinfo.dtd?rev=1.4root=texi2latex It all looks sensible to me, so I installed your version wholesale. The actual --xml output hasn't changed since 4.8, I don't think. I updated

Bug#214729: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-01-29 Thread Karl Berry
214729 makeinfo --html should generate valid HTML -- makeinfo --html currently generates HTML without a DOCTYPE line. It should generate valid HTML. I do not agree this is a bug. I've never seen doctype lines do anything but

Bug#218557: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-01-29 Thread Karl Berry
218557 dies with Cannot find node `Top' That is a very long bug report, but what I need to fix the bug is the actual dir file which causes the crash, and I don't see it there. (Maybe it's there and I'm missing it amongst all the other stuff.) I appreciate all the analysis and strace's

Bug#228606: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-01-29 Thread Karl Berry
228606 makeinfo --html: split by chapter - Split in more reasonable chunks, say one chapter per file, not one node per file. Well, reasonable is in the eye of the beholder, but anyway, it's on my wishlist too. I may even implement it

Bug#234848: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-01-29 Thread Karl Berry
234848 info ./jdfsdofs starts with man page of top, instead of the Top node If you supply a filename on the cmdline which does not exists, then the man page of top is shown, instead of showing the

Bug#269413: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-01-29 Thread Karl Berry
269413 [INTL:da] Updated program translation - The submitter is the author of the da translation in 4.8, too, and he has sent in a new translation. But this one is not in cvs. I know that the translations have to come in from the

Bug#276006: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-01-29 Thread Karl Berry
276006 bogus error message when $TEXINPUTS contains nonexistent directory -- title says all. Fix is attached to the patch: Sigh. The title says it all -- except what the actual message was, and how texi2dvi

Bug#31464: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-01-29 Thread Karl Berry
31464 info: regex searching - regexp searches smart case handling: if input is all lower case - insensitive if contains upper case - sensitive Agreed on all counts, but I won't be implementing this. I added it as an enhancement bug on

Bug#335016: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-01-29 Thread Karl Berry
335016 makeinfo --xml generates a document with an invalid DTD --- I generated an XML document with makeinfo --xml. It contains: !DOCTYPE texinfo PUBLIC -//GNU//DTD TexinfoML V4.8//EN

Bug#146133: info goto node with dot

2006-01-28 Thread Karl Berry
What was the reason that node names cannot contain the sequence . or .\t etc ?? The only thing I can think of is that it is somehow related to the dir file, which contains entries like this, with a period followed by whitespace: * Bash: (bash). The GNU

Bug#276000: Bug reports for texinfo (and 2 wishes)

2006-01-28 Thread Karl Berry
Ok, it didn't apply to texinfo from 4.8, but: Hardly surprising. You should distribute the latest released texinfo.tex, available from ftp://tug.org/tex/texinfo.tex (or linked from http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo). Lots of fixes. texinfo.tex is the one thing that I can update

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