missing latex.fmt and pdflatex.fmt files

changing tetex render engine

It seems that in the last update to tetex(3) pdfetex was set 
as the default render engine for tex.  I am having problems 
with it in that it doesn't interpret environment variables 
in the tex files.  The old engine(etex) interpreted them 
properly.  Is there a way to switch back to etex or get 
pdfetex to interpret the environment variables?  Thank you.
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Scott Henson
LCSEE Systems Staff
WVU MAE Undergraduate
Ubuntu User

Re: Installation instructions for a teTeX system

Hello, Christopher.

---- Christopher Sawtell <csawtell <at> paradise.net.nz> wrote: 
> On Saturday 17 June 2006 09:36, hefferon9 <at> adelphia.net wrote:
> > I am looking for a volunteer.
> And what do want him, her, them to do?

The message that you are referring to got garbled.  (I wonder if there is some difficulty since it also took a
good three or four days to appear.)

The document that I referred to 
  http://tug.ctan.org/installationadvice.html
will be linked-to from the page that a person sees when they download material from the TUG CTAN site.  So this
document would be widely read, especially by newbies.  It needs a maintainer.   I am hoping to convince a
teTeX person (and a MiKTeX person for a separate page) to write step-by-step instructions on how to
install packages, and to agree to maintain that document.

To help someone know if they might be interested: the writing should favor being prescriptive ("You need a
local texmf tree") over a nuanced discussion of options.  Also , short is better than long, to the extent possible.

Please, could anyone who might be interested contact me at ftpmaint (at) tug.ctan.org ?  Thanks,
Jim Hefferon

Installation instructions for a teTeX system

Hello,

I am looking for a volunteer.   How would you like to find a way to contribute that would not take long, would
help a lot of TeX users, and would let you see your name in the credits?   If that sounds good, and you are
reasonably knowledgable about teTeX, then read on. 

I maintain the TUG node of CTAN.  Often, people download something and then ask me for installation advice.  A
few years ago I wrote some up and I put a link to it on the download page.  

I heard nothing about that page, so I thought that no one read it.  Then I took it down and I've since received
lots of requests to have it back.  It is now at 
  http://tug.ctan.org/installationadvice.html

teTeX like rpm packages of TeX Live

In teTeX: no next release thread, Frank Küster wrote:

> > With respect to teTeX being "dead" now - sitting on my hard drive
right
> > now is a set of "teTeX like" RPMs built from TeX Live 2005. I could
not
> > use pristine source because of bootstrap issues (you need TeX
installed
> > to unpack the dtx files).
> >
> > I'm not quite ready to make them public, but I think it is the right
> > solution for people (like me) who like the teTeX packaging.
> 
> It would be interesting to look at this.
> 

I've had a couple (two) requests to see that now, so:

http://www.tetexrpm.org/texjive.html

There's still work that needs to be done (most notably, it does not seem
to link against system freetype even when I ask it to).

Also - I'm not sure why it is doing this, but it builds/installs
lcdf-typetools when I specifically ask it not to - deleting the
lcdf-typetools directory solves that though.

But is a start.

If someone wants to do for RPM what Debian has done - more power to
them, but this is works for me, and is preferable for me, maybe for some
others too.

tex output differs between 1.0.7 and 3.0

This is not much of problem but I am curious why I see the following:

When I process some latex source files on a machine which has still
teTeX-1.0.7 installed and another machine with teTe-X-3.0 I see
differences in the output dvi file.  Some of my latex source files
produce exactly the same output dvi file (when run in the same minute,
so that even the time stamp is the same), some files produce different
output dvi files (when viewing with dvitype) but which look the same
in xdvi, and some source files are indeed typeset differently.

When looking at the log file, I see the following changes between
1.0.7 and 3.0:

* pdfeTeX is used instead of TeX
* pdfeTeX from 3.0 is version 3.141592 while TeX from 1.0.7 is version
  3.14159
* newer LaTeX version from 2003-12-01 instead of 1999-12-01.
* newer version of some other macro packages, e.g. inputenc.sty,
  latin1.def, etc.

The CM fonts seem to be the same.  I wonder wether the changes in
output are caused by the different TeX engine or by the new version of
LaTeX macros.

I have always found it a nice feature in TeX to get the same output on
all machines and usually with all versions of TeX, LaTeX, etc.  For
example I have put some effort into the final versions of my thesises
to tweak line and page breaks, to avoid clubs and widows and so on,
and now find that when I reproduce from the sources with newer TeX
installations the output is different.

urs

Unable to use URW Garamond No. 8 Type 1 typeface

I am sorry if this is a silly question.

I have spent several hours on this, and read all the documentation that I
can find (not all of which I understand), and still can't get this to work 

I have installed teTeX from the Mandriva 2006.0 RPM database on to my
Mandriva 2006.0 system. I have made NO changes to the installed files. The
RPM creates a system-wide texmf tree rooted in /usr/share/texmf.

I want to use a Garamond typeface, and discovered the URW Garamond No. 8
type 1 files at TUG
(https://www.tug.org/tex-archive/nonfree/fonts/urw/garamond/).

I create a directory ~/texmf as the root for a local texmf tree that is
just for me, not for the entire system.

I have carefully followed the instructions in README.garamond in that
directory, using ~/texmf as the root for the texmf tree (including running
texhash and updmap exactly as described in README.garamond).

Now I actually want to use the typeface in my plain TeX file.

Problem: I don't know what to use in the line:
\font\rm=<something>
Normally, for Computer Modern, one would just put:
\font\rm=cmr10

I have all kinds of things for <something>, but none of hem work. For example:
\font\rm=garamond
\font\rm=ugm
\font\rm=ugmr8a
\font\rm=ugmr8c

They give various kinds of errors. Maybe I have not found the right thing
to put in place of <something>.

For example. when I try
\font\rm=ugmr8a
the error is:

[H:] pdftex test
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode
(./test.tex [1{/usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
[2] )</usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb>kpathsea: Running
mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 ugmr8a
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ugmr8a.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. This is driving me slowly crazy.

  Doc Evans

teTeX: no next release

Hi,

I am sorry to announce some bad news about teTeX: there won't be a next
release. To be more precise: there won't be a next release done by me.

In the past, preparing a release ment to spend all my spare time for
about 2-3 month on getting the release out (in addition to doing regular
updates on yources and the texmf tree). The time spend on it increased
with the size of the distribution.

My current development tree (just as it is today) is available from
  rsync://tug.org/tetexdevsrc/
so if anybody wants to pick it up, just do it.

Basically, teTeX consists of a source tree and a texmf tree with fonts,
macros, configuration, etc.

The source tree of teTeX-3.0 is included 100% in TeX Live
(http://www.tug.org/texlive/) which is released once per year. So,
there is no doubt for me that all the stuff that is now included in the
source tarball will be maintained actively. There are some parts which
have been originally written by me (scripts such as updmap, texconfig,
fmtutil) and I think that it won't be a problem for me to continue to
maintain these things (and submit updates into the TeX Live repository).

The texmf tree of teTeX is a monolitic distribution of individual CTAN
packages. I am unsure if someone else wants to maintain such a monolitic
monster package. I am sure that it would be much better to set up a
package based infrastructure, such as MikTeX's. This infrastructure was
recently ported to Linux, so using this might be a good start. Another
possible source of information about creating TeX packages is again TeX
Live. The work done there can be used to create debian packages in a
mostly automated way.

All the best,

Thomas

PS: Follow-Up set to tetex <at> dbs.uni-hannover.de.

teTeX-flex problems

Hi,

	Though not a problem with teTex proper, this issue affects its
installation and is related to problem 2 in

	'- using an unpatched version of flex-2.5.31 fails with..'

	Despite applying the patch (to flex-2.5.31) for teTex-3.0, flex
poses problems during make as follows:

make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/export/home/shalabh/INSTALL/flex-2.5.31'
Making all in .
make[2]: Entering directory `/export/home/shalabh/INSTALL/flex-2.5.31'
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.
-DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -I/usr/local/include -I./intl
-I/opt/gnome/include -I/usr/openwin/share/include/X11/extensions
-I/usr/openwin/include -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT filter.o -MD -MP
-MF ".deps/filter.Tpo" \
  -c -o filter.o `test -f 'filter.c' || echo './'`filter.c; \
then mv ".deps/filter.Tpo" ".deps/filter.Po"; \
else rm -f ".deps/filter.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
filter.c: In function `filter_apply_chain':
filter.c:161: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
filter.c:163: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
filter.c:184: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
make[2]: *** [filter.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/export/home/shalabh/INSTALL/flex-2.5.31'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/shalabh/INSTALL/flex-2.5.31'
make: *** [all] Error 2

	No workarounds to be found on the Web, either. Was wondering if
something can be said about the problem.

regards,
shahid.

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concrete troubles

Hello, 

I'm unable to get the Concrete stuff to go for me. 

My test document: 
===================== 
\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{concrete} 

\begin{document} 
Test. 
\end{document} 
===================== 
results in the error message at the bottom of this email.  Can someone help me 
figure out what I am doing wrong? 

I have Fedora Core 1, so it is somewhat old but not ancient.  But I do have a 
confession.  I bought the Type 1 concrete fonts on a CD from microPress and 
tried to install them.  Unfortunately the CD ws corrupt (and microPress did not 
respond to my request for a replacement, so it got no further) so it is possible 
that I have some scraps of this abortive installation in my 
/usr/local/share/temf tree.  But I see nothing in updmap.cfg, or in pdftex.map 
for that matter, that refers to ccr-type of stuff, so I don't think I told it 
something confusing. 

I'd appreciate any tips.   Thank you,
Jim Hefferon 

................................................................................
[ftpmaint <at> localhost security]$ pdflatex test 
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b (Web2C 7.4.5) 
(./test.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} 
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> 
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n 
ohyphenation, loaded. 
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls 
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class 
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) 
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/concrete.sty 
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/beton.sty 
Package: `beton' v1.3 <1995/03/05> (FJ) 
) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/euler.sty 
Package: `euler' v2.5 <1995/03/05> (FJ and FMi) 

LaTeX Font Warning: Encoding `OML' has changed to `U' for symbol font 
(Font)              `letters' in the math version `normal' on input line 35. 

 
LaTeX Font Warning: Encoding `OML' has changed to `U' for symbol font 
(Font)              `letters' in the math version `bold' on input line 35. 

)) (./test.aux) 

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/ccr/m/n' undefined 
(Font)              using `OT1/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 4. 

[1{/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map}] (./test.aux) 

LaTeX Font Warning: Some font shapes were not available, defaults substituted. 

 ){/usr/share/texmf/dvips/tetex/f7b6d320.enc}</usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/blue 
sky/cm/cmr10.pfb> 
Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 5577 bytes). 
Transcript written on test.log. 

Eps images not shown in xdvi (Ghostscript issue?)

Greetings

I have just upgraded from Fedora Core4 to Core5, and realized that Xdvi 
does not show eps images anymore. The following is printed to the 
console when an eps ought to (but is not) displayed:

gs: Error: /invalidaccess in --put--
gs: Operand stack:
gs:    false   false   ct_AddStdCIDMap   --nostringval--   
--dict:5/29(G)--   --dict:
gs: 5/29(G)--   PermitFileReading   --nostringval--
gs: Execution stack:
gs:    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--
gs:    2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   fals
gs: e   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   
%oparray_pop   1   3   %op
gs: array_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--
gs:   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   %loop
gs: _continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
false   1   %st
gs: opped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   false   1
gs:    %stopped_push   --nostringval--   1   5   %oparray_pop   1   5   
%oparray_pop
gs:   1   5   %oparray_pop   1   5   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   
--nostringval--   --n
gs: ostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   
--nostringval--   4   8   %o
gs: parray_pop   --nostringval--   4   8   %oparray_pop   
--nostringval--   --dict:29
gs: /29(ro)(L)--   --nostringval--   26   %dict_continue   --nostringval--
gs: Dictionary stack:
gs:    --dict:1123/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   
--dict:101/200(L)--   --dict:23
gs: /250(L)--   --dict:48/200(L)--   --dict:48/68(L)--   
--dict:2/25(L)--   --dict:0/
gs: 20(G)--
gs: Current allocation mode is global
gs: Last OS error: 2
gs: Current file position is 113906

I use preview-latex through auc-tex in combination with emacs, which 
which doesn't show eps images either. Could this be due to an upgrade of 
Ghostscript? I do not remember which version was installed before the 
upgrade, but the current is 8.15.1 (2005-09-22). Are there any 
requirements for Ghostscript from TeTex?

Thank
Martin