eps inclusion by dvipdfmx and xdvipdfmx

Hello,

Recently, dvipdfmx.cfg is changed to use -dEPSCrop to convert from
eps to pdf by Ghostscript, and "hoffset", "voffset" specials are added to
dvipdfmx.def and xpdf.def.
I think "hoffset" and "voffset" specials are not working correctly,
probably because translation and scaling etc. are not commutative.
Outputs of pdflatex and xelatex are the same for the following
test1.tex, whereas the outputs for test2.tex are different
in the cases of pdflatex and xelatex.
Here grfig0.eps is a suitable eps figure.
I think that
if xetex.def and dvipdfmx.def are rewritten to become
urx = urx - llx
ury = ury - lly
llx = 0
lly = 0
without hoffset and voffset,
dvipdfmx and xdvipdfmx work correctly to include eps with -dEPSCrop.

%
% test1.tex
%
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\includegraphics{grfig0.eps} 
\end{document}

%

pb with xelatex format

Hi,

can anyone confirm that the attached LaTeX file doesn't compile with
XeLaTeX from TL2013 on Windows 7?  I have no clean installation and I'm
not an everyday XeLaTeX user, so want to keep calm in the first message.
 (XeTeX works fine, BTW.)

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\end{document}

please update to libpng 1.6.2

As the subject says: Please update to current git of libpng (or 1.6.3
as soon as it appears).  I have just been bitten by the feature

  IDAT: invalid distance too far back

which has apparently been introduced in 1.6.0.  While the affected
image file might not be fully in accordance with the PNG standard, it
has been accepted without complaints with earlier libpng versions.

Looking at

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=841734#c12

and the comments following, however, it seems that some action on the
pdftex side is probably necessary also...

Alternatively, we might stay with libpng 1.5.16...

    Werner

texlive 2013 pretest epstopdf problem

Re: TL2013: Biber not working with labels containing accents

This should be fixed in the 1.7 dev version on SF. There was a bad
test which made the particular test pass when it shouldn't have in
1.6.

PK

--
Dr Philip Kime

On 23 May 2013, at 11:17 AM, Joseph Wright
<joseph.wright <at> morningstar2.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm not sure if this is a change in Biber or one linked to TL2013, but
> with the current pretest I find that Biber doesn't find the database
> entry with example
>
> %!TeX program = LuaLaTeX
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{filecontents}
> \begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
>  <at> ARTICLE{Savéant2012,
>  author = {Costentin, Cyrille and Drouet, Samuel and Robert, Marc
>    and Jean-Michel Savéant},
>  title = {{A} {L}ocal {P}roton {S}ource {E}nhances {CO}2 {E}lectroreduction
>    to {CO} by a {M}olecular {F}e {C}atalyst },
>  journaltitle = {Science},
>  year = {2012},
>  volume = {338},
>  number = {6103},
>  pages = {90-94},
> }
> \end{filecontents}
> \usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
> \bibliography{\jobname}
> \begin{document}
>
> \cite{Savéant2012}
> \printbibliography
>
> \end{document}
>
> while all is fine with TL2012. Do other people see this (I'm using
> TL2013 on the Mac, updated today)? Is so, is this a TL issue or a Biber one?
> --
> Joseph Wright

TL2013: Biber not working with labels containing accents

Hello all,

I'm not sure if this is a change in Biber or one linked to TL2013, but
with the current pretest I find that Biber doesn't find the database
entry with example

%!TeX program = LuaLaTeX

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
 <at> ARTICLE{Savéant2012,
  author = {Costentin, Cyrille and Drouet, Samuel and Robert, Marc
    and Jean-Michel Savéant},
  title = {{A} {L}ocal {P}roton {S}ource {E}nhances {CO}2 {E}lectroreduction
	to {CO} by a {M}olecular {F}e {C}atalyst },
  journaltitle = {Science},
  year = {2012},
  volume = {338},
  number = {6103},
  pages = {90-94},
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\bibliography{\jobname}
\begin{document}

\cite{Savéant2012}
\printbibliography

\end{document}

while all is fine with TL2012. Do other people see this (I'm using
TL2013 on the Mac, updated today)? Is so, is this a TL issue or a Biber one?
--

-- 
Joseph Wright

[OT] listings package contribution: Lua language

[this is off-topic, but I think the right people are here]

Hi,

for my own purposes, I've written Lua language support for the listings
package (covering Lua 5.0 to 5.2) that I would like to upload to CTAN
and get it into TL2013.

Without knowing too much about the current state of the listings package
(AFAIR, Brooks Moses is no longer actively maintaining the package), is
there any better way to contribute Lua support than uploading a new
package listings-lua to CTAN?

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig

Documentation patch

Here's a very minor documentation update for Cygwin:

--- texlive-en.tex.orig 2013-05-22 10:30:33.437934000 -0400
+++ texlive-en.tex      2013-05-22 10:33:16.785276900 -0400
 <at>  <at>  -623,13 +623,12  <at>  <at> 
 \subsubsection{Cygwin}
 \label{sec:cygwin}

-The \TL{} installer supports only Cygwin 1.7.
 Before beginning the installation, use Cygwin's \filename{setup.exe} program to
 install the \filename{perl} and \filename{wget} packages if you have
 not already done so.  The following additional packages are
 recommended:
 \begin{itemize*}
-\item \filename{fontconfig} [needed by \XeTeX]
+\item \filename{fontconfig} [needed by \XeTeX\ and Lua\TeX]
 \item \filename{ghostscript} [needed by various utilities]
 \item \filename{libXaw7} [needed by \code{xdvi}]
 \item \filename{ncurses} [provides the \code{clear} command used by the installer]

Ken

asymptote problem

Howdy,

This used to work! If I have a file asymtotemktest-1.asy, produced by the asymptote package in one of my test
files, I could run

$ asy pdf asymtotemktest-1

but now the pdf option is unknown (not a big deal).

However if I run

$ asy asymtotemktest-1

/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/asymptote/plain_picture.asy: 1259.17: no matching function
'axialshade(frame, path[], bool, pen, pair, bool, pen, pair, bool, bool)'
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/asymptote/plain_picture.asy: 1274.18: no matching function
'radialshade(frame, path[], bool, pen, pair, real, bool, pen, pair, real, bool, bool)'

so there is another problem.

This is with asy 2.21 and asymptote.sty v1.27.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Today's update to asymptote

Howdy,

This used to work! If I have a file asymtotemktest-1.asy I used to run

$ asy pdf asymtotemktest-1

but now the pdf option is unknown (not a big deal).

However if I run

$ asy asymtotemktest-1

/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/asymptote/plain_picture.asy: 1259.17: no matching function
'axialshade(frame, path[], bool, pen, pair, bool, pen, pair, bool, bool)'
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/asymptote/plain_picture.asy: 1274.18: no matching function
'radialshade(frame, path[], bool, pen, pair, real, bool, pen, pair, real, bool, bool)'

so there is another problem.

This is with asy 2.21 and asymptote.sty v1.27.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Minor problem with the ams fonts doc

Hi,

The doc amsfndoc.pdf for AMS fonts (in TEXMFDIST/doc/fonts/amsfonts/) is in an odd state: it includes
hyperlinks à la hyperref, which are not obtained by typesetting the source amsfndoc.tex (in
TEXMFDIST/source/latex/amsfonts/); but it does not include the title, which is missing, and the date
display is messed up.

In short, amsfndoc.pdf seems to have been typeset from a hacked amsfndoc.tex without double-checking the
output is right.

All the above with TL 2013 pretest, as in MacTeX-2013. But exactly the same was already seen in TL 2012.

I am not a member of this list, so if you need further info please contact me directly.

Bruno Voisin