Re: Installing Tetex packages now

2016-12-16 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:21:26AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 01:18:07PM +1100, terryc wrote: > > What is the simple procedure to install additional Tetex packages now? > > > > Been about 2000 sin

Re: Installing Tetex packages now

2016-12-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 01:18:07PM +1100, terryc wrote: > What is the simple procedure to install additional Tetex packages now? > > Been about 2000 since I used LaTeX a lot and I find that wrapfig is > the way to wrap text around a figure these days, so I'd like to use it. Bac

Re: Installing Tetex packages now

2016-12-15 Thread deloptes
terryc wrote: > What is the simple procedure to install additional Tetex packages now? > > Been about 2000 since I used LaTeX a lot and I find that wrapfig is > the way to wrap text around a figure these days, so I'd like to use it. > > Is there any aptitude/apt-get equ

Installing Tetex packages now

2016-12-15 Thread terryc
What is the simple procedure to install additional Tetex packages now? Been about 2000 since I used LaTeX a lot and I find that wrapfig is the way to wrap text around a figure these days, so I'd like to use it. Is there any aptitude/apt-get equivalent and what was/is the installation u

Re: Can't install or remove tetex packages - SOLVED

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Aug 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Following a disaster with cleanlinks my tetex-base, tetex-bin, and > tetex-extra are in a mess. According to dpkg -C they are half-installed > and half-configured. I cannot either reinstall or remove. > > Can anyone suggest a safe method of rmoving these p

Can't install or remove tetex packages

2003-08-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
Following a disaster with cleanlinks my tetex-base, tetex-bin, and tetex-extra are in a mess. According to dpkg -C they are half-installed and half-configured. I cannot either reinstall or remove. Can anyone suggest a safe method of rmoving these packages and reinstalling them? AC -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: teTeX packages

1997-12-02 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! > I can't seem to get Debian's teTeX to work at all ("can't find default > format file" from tex). But when I downloaded it direct from sunsite, > it worked fine. Has anyone had a similar experience? I suppose I > could include more (or any, actually) details if requested. I had th

Re: teTeX packages

1997-12-01 Thread Ralf Comtesse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi I had the same problem. It seems, that during installation, some of the files in /etc/texmf get removed, but later packages depend on them. I finally succeeded by installing the packages manualy with dpkg not with select 1. base package 2. bin 3. extras then

teTeX packages

1997-12-01 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Ben Pfaff writes: > I can't seem to get Debian's teTeX to work at all ("can't find default > format file" from tex). But when I downloaded it direct from sunsite, > it worked fine. Has anyone had a similar experience? I suppose I > could include more (or any, actually) details if requested.

Re: teTeX packages

1997-12-01 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I can't seem to get Debian's teTeX to work at all ("can't find default > format file" from tex). But when I downloaded it direct from sunsite, > it worked fine. Has anyone had a similar experience? I suppose I > could include more (or any, actually) details if requested. > -- > Ben Pfaff <

teTeX packages

1997-11-30 Thread Ben Pfaff
I can't seem to get Debian's teTeX to work at all ("can't find default format file" from tex). But when I downloaded it direct from sunsite, it worked fine. Has anyone had a similar experience? I suppose I could include more (or any, actually) details if requested. -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-26 Thread Christoph Martin
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi all > Why don't we reorganize TeX for debian as follows: get rid of unneccessary > older TeX packages (which I understand are buggy) and replace them with > teTeX. That is, we use teTeX as the basis for debian TeX stuff. Then we > could "value add" t

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-21 Thread Johann Spies
On 21 Apr 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > > web2c-7.0 is the state of the art. > Which in turn contains lots of improvements by Thomas Esser who does > designe teTeX. The upcoming teTeX release will be based on web2c-7.0 > or later. So the development of teTeX and web2c are actually strongly > related

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-21 Thread Paul Seelig
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Dunham) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Seelig) writes: > >> consider installing Debian. I suppose that teTeX is at the moment the >> state of the art of all the Unix TeX distributions available. > > web2c-7.0 is the state of the

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-21 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Seelig) writes: > Actually i thought that teTeX was supposed to and is the solution for > what you seem to recognize as Debian's confused TeX direction!? IMHO > the fact that teTeX has become part of Debian is a major reason to > consider installing Debian. I suppose that t

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-19 Thread Mark Phillips
Paul Seelig writes: > Mark Phillips writes: > > > I think it is in Debian's interest to think carefully about how to get > > the best possible TeX distribution. I think for a lot of people, having > > a great TeX distribution would be a major selling point for the > > distribution. At the momen

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-18 Thread Paul Seelig
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Phillips) writes: > I think it is in Debian's interest to think carefully about how to get > the best possible TeX distribution. I think for a lot of people, having > a great TeX distribution would be a major selling point for the >

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-18 Thread Mark Phillips
> > Has anyone else tried NTeX at all? I have that installed here; I > > chose it because it comes with more documentation than teTeX did. The > > installer is Debian compatible; it even provides the right packages > > for things that depend on them. > > AFAIR Debian came with NTeX before. I

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Paul Seelig
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Schulze) writes: > Anyway there should be sufficient documentation about LaTeX across > the net. I just re-read the german lkurz alias LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung. > I'm sure that a similiar english document does exist, too. > Actual

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Has anyone else tried NTeX at all? I have that installed here; I > chose it because it comes with more documentation than teTeX did. The > installer is Debian compatible; it even provides the right packages > for things that depend on them. > >

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 17, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote > Has anyone else tried NTeX at all? I have that installed here; I > chose it because it comes with more documentation than teTeX did. The > installer is Debian compatible; it even provides the right packages > for things that depend on them. AFAIR Debian cam

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Andreas Tille writes: > On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > I notice there are several teTeX packages available. Have many people > > tried them? Are there any problems with the packages or are they > > stable enough for me to install them and be confide

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 17, Mark Phillips wrote > I notice there are several teTeX packages available. Have many people > tried them? Are there any problems with the packages or are they > stable enough for me to install them and be confident things are > going to work properly? > > Is the

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > I notice there are several teTeX packages available. Have many people > tried them? Are there any problems with the packages or are they > stable enough for me to install them and be confident things are > going to work properly? While i

Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Mark Phillips
I notice there are several teTeX packages available. Have many people tried them? Are there any problems with the packages or are they stable enough for me to install them and be confident things are going to work properly? Is the teTeX distribution complete, or is it missing a few things