[KPATHSEA] KPATHSEA does not find files in TEXMFHOME

Re: [KPATHSEA] KPATHSEA does not find files in TEXMFHOME

> The task I try to accomplish is as follows: with the command
>         kpsewhich abbtechnote.cls
> I try to find a LaTeX class file in my home directory. According to the 
> documentation, I set the TEXMFHOME in the config-file like
>         TEXMFHOME = ~/.texmf/tex/{latex,generic,}//
> and the file resides in
>         ~\.texmf\tex\latex\ABBstyles\abbtechnote.cls
> Unfortunately, KPATHSEA does not find the file while it is travelling 
> through the directories:
> --- SCHNIPP ---
> kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for abbtechnote.cls of type tex (from 
> texmf.cnf)
> ...
> kdebug:hash_lookup(c:/Documents and 
> Settings/DEU130357/.texmf/tex/latex/ABBstyles/abbtechnote.cls) => (nil)
> kdebug:dir_links(c:/Documents and 
> Settings/DEU130357/.texmf/tex/latex/ABBstyles/abbtechnote.cls) => 0

On windows, ~ is $USERPROFILE, as above lines show.

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Akira Kakuto

Re: [KPATHSEA] KPATHSEA does not find files in TEXMFHOME

> I try to find a LaTeX class file in my home directory. According to the 
> documentation, I set the TEXMFHOME in the config-file like
>         TEXMFHOME = ~/.texmf/tex/{latex,generic,}//

That is not a usual setting. $TEXMFHOME is a unique starting directory.
You had better define it like

TEXMFHOME = ~/.texmf

Thanks,
Akira

bug report - dvips

Probably I have reported a bug in the wrong site:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-base/+bug/386465

Thank you
Luca

Re: bug report - dvips

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-base/+bug/386465

I've been struck by that too, but dvips set the %%Title to foo.dvi
because that is where the PS came from, which is somewhat reasonable.
I'm not sure that it's better to set it to the output filename (or
"stdout.ps" or something when output is to stdout?  Hmm ...).

At any rate, since it's been like this for 30 years, I'm not too
inclined to change the default now, although a way to specify the output
title seems like it would be good.  I'm not sure if there already is
one, but I don't think so ...

Thanks for the report,
Karl

crippled TeX package

Re: crippled TeX package

Hi Pierre,

Sorry, what FC10 does is not up to us.  You'll have to ask them.
Every distro likes to mess around with TeX in their own way.

As you may know, TeX Live does include initex, but the fmtutil.cnf we
use does not call initex, it ends up running "tex -ini" or "pdftex -ini"
or whatever.

I'll check what happens when our fmtutil is called on a nonexistent
engine.  But I doubt Fedora is using an unmodified fmtutil anyway.

Best,
Karl

Fwd: TeX--Xet

Re: crippled TeX package

Karl and friends, 

this is regarding the recent post by Pierre. 

I have just checked several of my systems. 
Several months ago, I installed TeXlive2008 on a new laptop that runs 
Windows XP.  while the installation went quite well, and I am happy with 
all of the features, there is NO initex installed that I can find. 
This is TeXlive2008. 

More recently, I installed Fedora Linux on an older machine. The installation 
indicates that this is TeXlive2007.  From what I can tell both Fedora 9 and 
Fedora 10 provide TexLive2007.  Again all inquiries show that there is NO 
initex available. 

This was installed from the installation RPM's that Fedora provides.  I was 
also surprised to find that while the Windows TeXlive did provide a tlmgr 
utility (rather useful) the Fedora distribution did not have such a utility. 
All that I could find was the old utilities that are from the Thomas Esser 
teTeX distributions. (thank you Thomas !!) 

This is just my 2cents worth.  I still have an installation 
(thank you Fabrice) circa 1999-2000.  
This one does have initex (on Windows ) 

regards,
andrew

At 05:19 PM 7/19/2009, Karl Berry wrote:
>Hi Pierre,
>
>Sorry, what FC10 does is not up to us.  You'll have to ask them.
>Every distro likes to mess around with TeX in their own way.
>
>As you may know, TeX Live does include initex, but the fmtutil.cnf we
>use does not call initex, it ends up running "tex -ini" or "pdftex -ini"
>or whatever.
>
>I'll check what happens when our fmtutil is called on a nonexistent
>engine.  But I doubt Fedora is using an unmodified fmtutil anyway.
>
>Best,
>Karl

Re: crippled TeX package

Andrew Komornicki <komornic@...> wrote:

[rearranged to move andrew's bottom post to the top]
> At 05:19 PM 7/19/2009, Karl Berry wrote:
> >Sorry, what FC10 does is not up to us.  You'll have to ask them.
> >Every distro likes to mess around with TeX in their own way.

there's no denying that.  it's what they omit that bothers me (none of
the executables afaik -- i'm talking about packages).

> >As you may know, TeX Live does include initex, but the fmtutil.cnf we
> >use does not call initex, it ends up running "tex -ini" or "pdftex -ini"
> >or whatever.
> >
> >I'll check what happens when our fmtutil is called on a nonexistent
> >engine.  But I doubt Fedora is using an unmodified fmtutil anyway.

what karl doesn't explicitly say is that *no-one* in the free software
world produces a separate initex executable any more.  its place has
been taken by "[pdf]tex -ini"; this was the case from the tetex 3
distribution (fwiw, i compiled my archive copy in 2005, so it's hardly
recent news).

i'll put an answer in the faq, some time, about initex..  (there's a
section for it -- talks about things like the am fonts -- "things have
gone away" or near)

[note, i've no idea what the paid-for tex systems do in this regard:
i have none such, so can't hope even to speak about them -- look at the
faq entries about commercial systems; they're all commercial text with
the hype extracted as far as i can manage.]

> this is regarding the recent post by Pierre. 
>  
> I have just checked several of my systems. 
> Several months ago, I installed TeXlive2008 on a new laptop that runs 
> Windows XP.  while the installation went quite well, and I am happy with 
> all of the features, there is NO initex installed that I can find. 
> This is TeXlive2008. 

indeed.  as one would expect.

> More recently, I installed Fedora Linux on an older machine. The installation 
> indicates that this is TeXlive2007.  From what I can tell both Fedora 9 and 
> Fedora 10 provide TexLive2007.  Again all inquiries show that there is NO 
> initex available. 

indeed.

> This was installed from the installation RPM's that Fedora provides.  I was 
> also surprised to find that while the Windows TeXlive did provide a tlmgr 
> utility (rather useful) the Fedora distribution did not have such a utility. 
> All that I could find was the old utilities that are from the Thomas Esser 
> teTeX distributions. (thank you Thomas !!) 

interesting to know which tetex utilities you need that aren't available
in a the fedora tl 2007 distribution (i use that, too, and have no problems).

> This is just my 2cents worth.  I still have an installation 
> (thank you Fabrice) circa 1999-2000.  
> This one does have initex (on Windows ) 

but if you install miktex or tl-for-windows (the successor to fptex)
you'll find that tex -ini works, and everything else is more slick.
(note, i've never tried tl-for-windows.)

robin