Re: just like the old days (TeTeX to TeXLive)

2008-04-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 02:33:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/31/08 23:39, Jim McCloskey wrote: > [snip] > > > > Thank you very much. This file is of a daunting size (7096 lines). It > > Send it to the band printer in the computer room? I don't know, my Epson LQ-2080 would handle that jus

Re: just like the old days (TeTeX to TeXLive)

2008-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/31/08 23:39, Jim McCloskey wrote: [snip] > > Thank you very much. This file is of a daunting size (7096 lines). It Send it to the band printer in the computer room? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -BEGIN P

Re: just like the old days (TeTeX to TeXLive)

2008-03-31 Thread Jim McCloskey
* Florian Kulzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> > But these are details, and mostly the problem is solved, and I'm |> > grateful for your help, |> |> There might be a problem with pdftex.map. Look at the output of |> |> kpsewhich pdftex.map |> |> and check if this files c

Re: just like the old days (TeTeX to TeXLive)

2008-03-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 18:22:18 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: [...] > This second produced a null output. And following up on that hint, > and with the help of /usr/share/doc/tex-common/TeX-on-Debian.txt, > I was able to create 10local.cfg in /etc/texmf/updmap.d/ with: > > Map pmn.map > > Thi

Re: just like the old days (TeTeX to TeXLive)

2008-03-30 Thread Jim McCloskey
* Douglas A. Tutty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> TeXLive is in Etch, you didn't have to go to Lenny... Sigh ... well, thank you. This is good to know. * Florian Kulzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> Run the following two commands and post the output: |> find /usr/local/share/texmf/font

Re: just like the old days (TeTeX to TeXLive)

2008-03-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:00:13AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > Lord, so I decided to upgrade my laptop (a Lenovo T60) to > testing/lenny so as to try out TeXLive and suddenly found myself in > one of those linux weekends of long ago (which I've never been sure if > I missed or not) when you're

Re: just like the old days (TeTeX to TeXLive)

2008-03-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 00:00:13 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > Lord, so I decided to upgrade my laptop (a Lenovo T60) to > testing/lenny [...] > But the problem I'm most anxious to solve at present has to do with > the change from TeTeX to TeXLive. > > I have so

just like the old days (TeTeX to TeXLive)

2008-03-30 Thread Jim McCloskey
y wireless cards (all of which worked beautifully before) work at all. But the problem I'm most anxious to solve at present has to do with the change from TeTeX to TeXLive. I have some fonts hand-installed in /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/ (Adobe Minion) which I use more or less constantly. All w

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-25 Thread Sven Joachim
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Holding the various tetex packages (tetex-bin, tetex-common, > tetex-extra, tetex-doc) "should" work -- but I wouldn't be surprised > if they get dragged in by dependencies anyway. aptitude holds don't > prevent versioned dependencies from forcing an

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-25 Thread - Tong -
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:38:52 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > You just could take my hint for further research if it doesn’t work directly. > (You could have come up with the idea to put everything tex-related on hold, > for > example.) Thanks for the hint, as you may have already discovered from

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:44:28PM +, - Tong - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? Holding the various tetex packages (tetex-bin, tetex-common, tetex-extra, tetex-doc) "should" work -- but I wo

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-25 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. - Tong -, 25.08.2007 05:51: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:03:42 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > >>> Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? >> See the manpage of aptitude and look for "hold". > > […] > > Please be *r

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-25 Thread Sven Joachim
- Tong - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? > > I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny, and have loads of things to fix, > keeping tetex from upgrading to texlive will sure ease the transition for > the moment.

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-24 Thread - Tong -
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:03:42 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: >> Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? > > See the manpage of aptitude and look for "hold". so what? Actively participate in group discussion is good thing, but please be res

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-24 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. - Tong -, 25.08.2007 01:44: > Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? See the manpage of aptitude and look for "hold". Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-24 Thread - Tong -
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:48:25 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? >> >> I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny, and have loads of things to fix, >> keeping tetex from upgrading to texlive will sure ease the tran

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
In your apt.conf file try a line like exclude texl* and see if that helps. On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, - Tong - wrote: Hi, Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny, and have loads of things to fix, keeping tetex from upgrading to

Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-24 Thread - Tong -
Hi, Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny, and have loads of things to fix, keeping tetex from upgrading to texlive will sure ease the transition for the moment. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-08 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-08, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07 May 2007 23:35:59 GMT > Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> What I found, thanks to help from others here (Florian I think it >> was...) was that the directory structure under ~/texmf has to mirror >> that of /usr/share/texmf-

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-08 Thread Micha Feigin
On 07 May 2007 23:35:59 GMT Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-07, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I just jumped in, and the only issue I had was getting my source files > >> (ie. non-standard .bst, .bib, .cls files) into

Re: TeTex to TeXLive [DONE]

2007-05-07 Thread Amy Templeton
Micha Feigin wrote: > Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2007-05-07, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > TeX installation. Is there some safe way of moving over? > > > > I just jumped in, and the only issue I had was getting my source files > > (ie. non-standard .bst, .bib,

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-07, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just jumped in, and the only issue I had was getting my source files >> (ie. non-standard .bst, .bib, .cls files) into the right directories > > If you have non-standard files you should put them

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
to a system without any former TeX installation. Is there > some safe way of moving over? Also, (very importantly) does AUCTeX > work with TeXLive? Running Etch, I upgraded from teTeX to TeXLive, but the system was unusable. Later someone told me that I should have purged the teTeX file

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On 07 May 2007 19:22:40 GMT Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-07, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TeX installation. Is there some safe way of moving over? > > I just jumped in, and the only issue I had was getting my source files > (ie. non-standard .bst, .bib, .cls

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On 07 May 2007 19:22:40 GMT Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-07, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TeX installation. Is there some safe way of moving over? > > I just jumped in, and the only issue I had was getting my source files > (ie. non-standard .bst, .bib, .cls

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-07, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TeX installation. Is there some safe way of moving over? I just jumped in, and the only issue I had was getting my source files (ie. non-standard .bst, .bib, .cls files) into the right directories (another thread on this list in the last mo

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 15:06:50 -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 5/7/07, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 07 May 2007 14:53:18 -0400 >> Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > So recently, occasionally when upgrading (I use Lenny) I've >> > had to remove some TeX component

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 7 May 2007 15:06:50 -0400 "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/7/07, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 07 May 2007 14:53:18 -0400 > > Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So recently, occasionally when upgrading (I use Lenny) I've > > > had to remov

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/7/07, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2007 14:53:18 -0400 Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So recently, occasionally when upgrading (I use Lenny) I've > had to remove some TeX component or other because it now > won't depend on TeTeX. So I suppose that that m

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 07 May 2007 14:53:18 -0400 Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > So recently, occasionally when upgrading (I use Lenny) I've > had to remove some TeX component or other because it now > won't depend on TeTeX. So I suppose that that means it's > time to get with the progr

TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Amy Templeton
Hey all, So recently, occasionally when upgrading (I use Lenny) I've had to remove some TeX component or other because it now won't depend on TeTeX. So I suppose that that means it's time to get with the program and upgrade to TeXLive, since it actually updates, but I've also heard tell that peopl