Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-30 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:21:46AM -0400, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: quote who=Norbert Preining date=Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:20:12AM +0200 One idea would be to put the package as Kohda-san prepared it into svn and we try to care all together for this... This sounds like the best idea to me as

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-30 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! On Mit, 30 Aug 2006, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: I think that the best idea is to the put the packages as they exist into SVN and then work them from there. I can merge the (small amount of) Ok, I have done it. package names xetex and xdvipdfmx NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE I have

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-29 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
quote who=Ralf Stubner date=Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 10:19:32PM +0200 some time ago you have changed this RFP into an ITP. Recently there have been some discussions on debian-tex-maint concerning XeTeX and xdvipdfmx, most of which are archived in bug #365672. Before going any further, we would

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-29 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
quote who=Norbert Preining date=Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:20:12AM +0200 One idea would be to put the package as Kohda-san prepared it into svn and we try to care all together for this... This sounds like the best idea to me as well. Regarsd, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-27 Thread Ralf Stubner
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 00:26 +0100, Daniel Glassey wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Description: XeTeX extends the TeX typesetting system (and macro packages such as LaTeX and ConTeXt) to have native support for the Unicode character set, including complex Asian scripts, and for

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-25 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear Kohda-san! Good to hear from you. How was the summer in Japan? If it was as hot as the July in Europe it must have been very bad, together with the humitity! Some comment to xetex: On Fre, 25 Aug 2006, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: From curiosity, I've packaged xetex 0.995 (and xdvipdfmx 0.3) for

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-25 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear Kohda-san! On Fre, 25 Aug 2006, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: but it has been very hot even this week... Rain here, heavy rain ... Next version will include it. I think about making a intermediate release of texlive packages with 2006~svnYYMMDD so that we can get xetex. We will see.

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-25 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:45:36 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: Dear Kohda-san! Hi Norbert, Good to hear from you. How was the summer in Japan? If it was as hot as the July in Europe it must have been very bad, together with the humitity! Well, I've tried to think it was as bad as normal

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-25 Thread Frank Küster
Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fre, 25 Aug 2006, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: From curiosity, I've packaged xetex 0.995 (and xdvipdfmx 0.3) for Debian/unstable. (I don't mean to maintain it though. I guess it would be best TeXLive includes XeTeX.) Next version will include it. I

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-25 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:47:55 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: Dear Kohda-san! Hi Norbert, Ah, perhaps I modified postinst in a wrong way. Thanks. Hmm why the postinst? The link should be created in the rules files I suppose. It should be shipped with the data.tar.gz. dh_installtex does

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-25 Thread Frank Küster
Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, perhaps I modified postinst in a wrong way. Thanks. Hmm why the postinst? The link should be created in the rules files I suppose. It should be shipped with the data.tar.gz. dh_installtex does *NOT* create the necessary symlinks. (Should it do

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-25 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! On Fre, 25 Aug 2006, Frank Küster wrote: suppose. It should be shipped with the data.tar.gz. dh_installtex does *NOT* create the necessary symlinks. (Should it do it?) If we want to do that, we should modify texlinks to accept a $DESTDIR and call that one from dh_installtex. On

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-25 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fre, 25 Aug 2006, Frank Küster wrote: Next version will include it. I think about making a intermediate release of texlive packages with 2006~svnYYMMDD so that we can get xetex. We will see. While that would be good, I think it would be even better if someone maintains a separate

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-25 Thread Ralf Stubner
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:20 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: On Fre, 25 Aug 2006, Frank Küster wrote: While that would be good, I think it would be even better if someone maintains a separate xetex package. xetex has a much faster development process currently than texlive. ACK

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-25 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! On Fre, 25 Aug 2006, Ralf Stubner wrote: True, absolutely true. The only question is who? I have not enough knowledge on xetex etc to do this. And not enough time. First of all #365672 has been changed from an RFP to an ITP some time ago. I can't remember right now who did this,

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-25 Thread Frank Küster
Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! On Fre, 25 Aug 2006, Frank Küster wrote: suppose. It should be shipped with the data.tar.gz. dh_installtex does *NOT* create the necessary symlinks. (Should it do it?) If we want to do that, we should modify texlinks to accept a $DESTDIR

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-25 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:06:48 +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote: Besides XeTeX one also needs xdvipdfmx (also an ITP). Here the relationship with the existing dvipdfmx packages are non trivial. At least when build with upstream's Debian packaging the two packages have to conflict since they contain

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-24 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:21:31 +0900 (JST), I wrote: On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:43:17 +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote: Current SVN is better. ;-) I see, I'll try it later. From curiosity, I've packaged xetex 0.995 (and xdvipdfmx 0.3) for Debian/unstable. (I don't mean to maintain it though. I

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-08 Thread Ralf Stubner
Atsuhito Kohda wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006 19:40:10 +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote: now. Also, there are some interesting questions concerning the proper placement of XeTeX specific files in the TEXMF tree. I've installed xetex 0.944a in my Debian/unstable (with TeXlive, I rebuilt xetex so that

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-08-08 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:43:17 +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote: Current SVN is better. ;-) I see, I'll try it later. * there are some duplicated files in XeTeX and TeXliv/teTeX, for example, keyval.sty, xkeyval.sty are such files. * under the above settings (and the current xetex package)

Bug#365672: RFP: xetex - An extension of TeX with Unicode and OpenType support

2006-05-01 Thread Daniel Glassey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Description: XeTeX extends the TeX typesetting system (and macro packages such as LaTeX and ConTeXt) to have native support for the Unicode character set, including complex Asian scripts, and for OpenType and TrueType