On 11 Mar 2003, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
> >>>>> George White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (GW) wrote:
>
> GW> Quoting Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> xdvizilla (in tetex-src-2.0.2/texk/xdvik/) appears to be missing the x
> >> permissi
Quoting Giuseppe Ghibò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> George White wrote:
>
> > Quoting Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >
> >>xdvizilla (in tetex-src-2.0.2/texk/xdvik/) appears to be missing the x
> >>permission.
> >
> >
Quoting Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> xdvizilla (in tetex-src-2.0.2/texk/xdvik/) appears to be missing the x
> permission.
On my linux system the x-permission was set (by install -- the default is
755 which is why you need the -m 644 option to install documentation) when the
file was i
Quoting David C Hendry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm trying to write a document which includes financial data, towards
> the end I sum up various costs using a counter (\newcounter and all
> that) and some simple macros. This works fine and gets me the total
> costs at the end of the document. B
ls you need are there.
> The fonts I'm asking for are available to LaTeX, so it is a little more
> detailed than "The fonts aren't there, dude ..."
It is far from easy to diagnose problems with fonts. Add to that the
need to support many different encodings and the f
Reader
built-in fonts or the Laserwriter 35, other times I want to
make sure that a particular font is embedded in the PDF and/or
PS file. You have to consider not only what is available to TeX,
but which fonts are provided by Acrobat Reader and/or the printer.
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know how
organizations across the pond support the euro, but if there is a Type 1
font that is commonly installed beside Times-Roman, then it makes sense
for a new TeX to make it easy to use them.
The other consideration is whether it is easier to make europs "just work"
for systems
With 2.0.1, configure is setting "X_LIBS" to "-L/usr/lib", which causes Irix to
try to link again o32 libraries:
gcc -o mfw mfini.o mf0.o mf1.o mf2.o mfextra.o window/window.a -L/usr/lib -lXt
-lX11 -L/usr/lib lib/lib.a ../kpathsea/STATIC/libkpathsea.a -lm
ld32: FATAL 12 : Expecting n32 objects:
Quoting Daniel Büchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello
> Compiling 2.0 on my SuSE 8.1 crashes when working within .../texk/oxdvik
> (see end of the log-file)
>
> What's going wrong?
>
> Any suggestion welcome (me - no programmer)
> Thanks Daniel
>
> [...]
> /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4: undefined referenc
Type
CMBX10 Type 1 Custom Embedded Subset Type 1
CMBSL10Type 1 Custom Embedded Subset Type 1
CMR10 Type 1 Custom Embedded Subset Type 1
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removed.
So far I have success using gcc 3.0.4 on Irix 6.5. I tried the SGI
compilers with the 20030112 beta, but need more time to find the
right configure invocation to get the compiler flags set properly
for my environment.
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specified directory. Is this what
you needed?
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ason for building teTeX was to solve a problem one of our students was
having with pdftex on a Win95 PC (the install .DLL versions didn't suit
either fptex or MikTeX, and she needed to run some lab instrumentation
software so it didn't make sense to risk updating DLL's just for p
rs this could be a reasonable thing
to do. Another option would be to install texlive.
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like something i've read about
> on this list when \usepackage{times} is combined with dvips -Ppdf,
> but i don't think that's really the case.
Did you check the bug reports on sourceforge? Is this bug #524292
(present in gs7.03-7.10, but not 6.51, now marked as closed):
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=1897&atid=101897&func=detail&aid=524292
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, it is convenient to
treat the vendor's tree as a "read-only" system and make all the
changes elsewhere. The you can upgrade the vendor package without
losing your local changes (but then you need to check that the
updated package doesn't have newer versions of some packages!).
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clicking on
the link with the "outside" button (right hand button if you have a right
handed mouse). If your linux system is connected to the internet, there
are command-line tools to download files such as wget. Also, text-mode
browsers such as links and lynx have a "download" command.
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ig manually. This does some quick sanity checks and might point to
the problem right away. If not, you should systematically check that
kpathsea is finding things in the right places. Have it print the values
of all the relevant variables and look at the debugging logs for various
searches. Can you do 'texdoc kpathsea'?
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If you use pdftex's
ability to load map files specified in the .tex file, it is at least clear
which fonts you intended to use, and it will be obvious if the required
map files aren't present.
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ot use
# faked TERM and TERMINFO variables when calling that dialog.
"Some systems" appears to be defined as BSD and linux. My SGI does
indeed use tcdialog.
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bit the problem (sorry
I don't recall the dvips version that worked -- it is installed on a
laptop that is locked up for the night in my office).
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are working correctly, followed by some simple things like
"etex story && dvips story", "latex sample2e && dvips sample2e", etc.
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nfiguration. You can then
write some simple cron jobs to check the settings for that environment
and compare with what you got for the console.
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es. If you don't establish this policy, you will end up
with users setting TEXINPUTS and other variables which makes it
difficult to track down problems.
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import PS files.
Since the native graphics API's on most common platforms use C strings,
character shifting remains useful in situations where you want to import a
PS file or translate it to another format. One notable exception was
NeXTStep, which used Display PS and Objective-C.
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On Tue, 21 May 2002, Gregory D. Collins wrote:
> * George White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020521 21:14]:
> > On Tue, 21 May 2002, Gregory D. Collins wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I'm having trouble with dvips and type 1 fonts. I inst
a font table that you can edit (prfont.ps?) to
see if ghostscript can find the font. There are too many ways to
misconfigure dvips so it reads the wrong configuration files and
it is easy to make a mistake in the configuration files. The
debugging option can be used to see exactly which files are being
used.
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e is nothing magic about latex -- as long as you understand how latex
finds files you can make sure that you are using any update that you
install. With kpathsea there isn't a significant runtime penalty to
having multiple trees with old and new versions of latex, and the disk
space required
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Kalyan Mukherjea wrote:
> Hi,
> To resume (briefly) an off-topic query that has elicited a
> number of responses (George White, Krzysztof Leszczynski amongst
> them)--- I had asked of the possibility of a reverse video switch
> (similar in function to
u could write a macro package to handle Illustrator
PS files.
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> >>>>> "George" == George White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It isn't hard to install a newer pdftex from source. You can
> > either replace your current versions or put the upd
I've been using it a bit on both
Cygwin and SGI Irix without problems, and last night I installed it on my
home Mandrake system without difficulty (but haven't tested it beyond
building the formats, so there could be some bugs).
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Your new version of dvips is configured for A4 paper.
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s
dvipsone is the best tool, but it is commercial and runs on Win32.
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Mandrake 7.1 linux
the old URW fonts are used by xfs and ghostscript (e.g., to print on a
non-PS printer), so just updating the texmf tree doesn't solve the
problem.
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r a user to modify the system configuration.
If you examine the texmf.cnf file you may find that it supports
a user TEXMF tree that is searched before the system tree
(e.g., ~/texmf). Failing that, you may be able to use your
own texmf.cnf by setting the TEXMFCNF variable (see the documentation).
eb2c/texmf.cnf file. We
have done this for the SGI freeware distribution of teTeX with relatively
little pain. To use the updated version users have only to adjust their
PATH and set TEXMFCNF.
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ing us).
The current font situation is a mess, and really needs a complete
overhaul. In a well designed system, the actual names of the
font files on disk will appear in exactly one table, and could
easily accomodate a variety of naming schemes.
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seconded by ps2pdf's man page:
AFAIK, teTeX doesn't include ghostscript. Many linux distributions
provide an older version of ghostscript (e.g., 5.50) , but if you want to
work with pdf you are well advised to get ver. 7.0.
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nt labs with "free" software than it is
to administer commercial licenses. Even those who have access to
distiller should periodically check for problems with pdfwrite and file
bug reports as required.
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deal with the different names used in
the X windows fonts/Type1/fonts.scale for ZapfDingbats. Xpdf
has the name hardcoded. I guess we need yet another font map
file to map Adobe PDF font names to the ones used in a particular
vendor's X server configuration.
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ese programs
> years ago were not altogether pleasant.
This has been discussed before. A central problem is that the current
version is not GPL'd, and many teTeX users do need (in fact, help to
create) the new features. On some systems (SGI) DPS is provided, so
not everyone needs gs.
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some resource problem with our level2 printers that
might improve if we install more memory.
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the source of such problems you need to narrow down
the search by throwing out \input files and chunks of the document
until the problem goes away.
At this point in time quite a few people are migrating from DOS or OS/2 to
Linux and teTeX, so the "ae" problem is sufficiently common that i
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 07:02 PM 9/19/00 -0300, George White wrote:
> >Note: this thread started out as a discussion of whether the ConTeXt
> >formats should be enabled by default in teTeX. Behind this is an
> >underlying concern that many system adm
they have to purchase table.tex and
Lucida fonts in order to compile a document that they brought with them
from their previous school or obtained from a colleague.
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On 18 Sep 2000, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> George White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ...
> > There are some restrictions in the ConTeXt license, so it is
> > probably better to require that someone (presumably one who has read
> > the documentation!) has to explic
; plain and latex. I might change my view with respect of context so day...
>
> Thomas
There are some restrictions in the ConTeXt license, so it is probably
better to require that someone (presumably one who has read the
documentation!) has to explicitly enable ConTeXt.
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es occur for
the URW clones of Adobe Type1 fonts. I would like to see more
explicit indications when such substitutions occur, for example,
a MathTime package with a Belleek option (e.g.,
\usepackage[belleek]{mathtime} or \usepackage[urw]{pslatex}).
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k as ugly as sin (upright greek letters). After
> seeing that, I rather stick to CM for math mode.
There is also the (new) MathPazo font set that provides some math
symbols for use with Palatino. The new psnfss makes some improvements
in the LaTeX (2e) support for Type1 fonts, now you can use &q
em Administrator
> Mathematics and Statistics
> University of Nebraska Lincoln
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n on systems where
it runs. Look in:
ftp://ftp.muni.cz/pub/tex/local/cstug/thanh/pdftex/
where you will see version 14f. You can update just the pdftex and
pdfetex binaries using the sources from this site without building
the entire distribution.
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x27; list for GhostScript). I have not used IBM's
Techexplorer under Linux, but it is certainly handy to have as well
if your documents are supported.
My personal preference for most work is pdftex with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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n issue if you need a font that isn't
available in Type 1 form. You should be able to install the Type 1 CM
fonts included with teTeX in NeXTStep. Make sure you have good versions
of the .afm files for the cmtex fonts (you can find them on Y&Y's web
site -- at one point the versions on CTAN were corrupted).
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""
find $HOME/rmtest -print
$ ./rmtest.sh
rm: remove somefile? y
rm: remove ? n
/Users/gwhite/rmtest
> Could you please check this?
>
> Not to forget: many, many thanks for your efforts in anylyzing
> this problem!
>
> Thomas
I for one am only too glad to help, since I can't get thru the day
without using teTeX!
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event of a disaster, makes it harder to
track down the causes.
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he current version is 2.4, from CTAN (tex-archive/support):
$ thumbpdf sample2e
THUMBPDF 2.4, 2000/04/10 - Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 by Heiko Oberdiek.
*** make png files / run Ghostscript ***
...
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ty TeX; a user of 1.0.7 here has reported that
> a document which latexs nicely overflows the string pool when
> typeset with pdflatex. I was hoping to report evidence of and
> a fix for this to this list.
>
> John A. Murdie
> Department of Computer Science
> University of York
> England
>
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possible to keep fonts in figures, but at present there are
still too many problems getting fonts work properly in multiple platforms
and applications.
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(2) is
related to the way dvips determines the values passed to "moveto",
but haven't investigated. I was forced to figure out (1) because
some PS clone printers "lie" about the resolution and were failing
on files created with dvips.
It may be time to think about ov
ps/config/pdftex.map}
<./tiger.png>]
[2] )
Output written on pngimg.pdf (2 pages, 88658 bytes).
Transcript written on pngimg.log.
To get current information, follow the links in the teTeX documentation
to http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex.
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