Norbert Preining | 1 Apr 2007 12:59
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Re: [tex-live] Debian TeX -- new packages

On Fre, 30 Mär 2007, Matej Kosik wrote:
> the resulting document has different size (Acrobat reader says 8.50 x 11.00 inches. That is unexpected).
This difference puzzled me. I was surprised when I found out that the size of the document generated via
`dvipdf' was different from the size of the document generated via `dvips' and `pdflatex'.

Please see
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-papersize.html

Short answer: Use
	\usepackage[dvips,...]{geometry}
for all drivers.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Florent Rougon | 1 Apr 2007 18:22
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[VAC] 2007-04-01 -> ? (a few days)

Hi,

I'll be in hospital starting from tomorrow for a duration of five days
or so. Maybe less, probably not more.

The packages I work on are team-maintained, so there shouldn't be any
problem.

Bye,

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Marcin Kasperski | 2 Apr 2007 10:55
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Bug#417274: texlive-omega: created links to manpages from texlive-extra-utils although there is no dependency

Package: texlive-omega
Version: 2005.dfsg.2-12
Severity: minor

Minor thing, but always...

If I install texlive-omega, but do not install texlive-extra-utils,
then texlive-omega creates two hangling symlinks:

   /usr/share/man/man1/odvitype.1.gz is a dangling symlink
   /usr/share/man/man1/odvicopy.1.gz is a dangling symlink

# dpkg -S odvitype
texlive-omega: /usr/share/man/man1/odvitype.1.gz
texlive-omega: /usr/bin/odvitype

I am not sure what is the best way to solve this, probably writing own
manpage for odvitype and odvicopy...

Norbert Preining | 2 Apr 2007 18:26
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EuroBachoTeX 2007

Hi all!

I am going to the EuroBachoTeX this year, for a short time but I go
(arrival friday, leaving monday morning). Since Jim from CTAN asked me
to present his talk, I will also give a talk about TeX (Live) on Debian.
Here is the abstract, if you have any suggestions, ideas, material let
me know, soon!!!

TeX (Live) on Debian
====================
Debian/Etch will (soon) be release with TeX Live 2005 and teTeX in
parallel, but the future of TeX in Debian currently lies in TeX Live as
Thomas Esser stopped developing teTeX.

While we tried to keep as much of the structure and experience of TeX
Live in the Debian packages, some adjustments had (and have) to be made
to adapt TeX Live to the packaging standards in Debian.

These adaptions concern mainly the placement of configuration files,
like those for installed fonts, the used formats, and hyphenation
patterns.

We will discuss several typical usage scenarios like:
- customizing search pathes
- installation of and updated style file
- installation of a new font package
These scenarios will be discussed from two possible perspectives:
- from the system administrator's perspective, ie system wide for
  all users
- from the users perspective, ie. per-user adaptions
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Frank Küster | 2 Apr 2007 19:27
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Re: SVN tex-common commit: r2622 - in tex-common/trunk: conf/texmf.d debian

Frank Küster <frank <at> debian.org> wrote:

> Norbert Preining <preining <at> alioth.debian.org> wrote:
>
>> change main_memory to 1500000 (mpost problem, upstream texmf.cnf contains
>> this change)
>
> I think we should make a diff between our texmf.cnf and upstream's, in
> order to detect any other sources of problems early.  Maybe we can even
> integrate this in the build process of, hm, which collections contains
> texmf.cnf? 

I've now implemented (but not yet tested) this.

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Frank Küster | 2 Apr 2007 19:06
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SVN tex-common commit: r2624 - in tex-common/trunk: conf/texmf.d debian

Author: frank
Date: 2007-04-02 17:06:07 +0000 (Mon, 02 Apr 2007)
New Revision: 2624

Modified:
   tex-common/trunk/conf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
   tex-common/trunk/conf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf
   tex-common/trunk/conf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf
   tex-common/trunk/conf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf
   tex-common/trunk/conf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf
   tex-common/trunk/conf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf
   tex-common/trunk/debian/NEWS
   tex-common/trunk/debian/changelog
Log:
* Update settings and comments in the texmf.cnf snippets to match
  upstream's as close as possible
* Drop backwards compatibility hacks for paths (see NEWS.Debian)
* Enable parse-first-line feature, except for Knuth's "tex".

[For the full diff, use svn diff.]

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Frank Küster | 2 Apr 2007 19:08
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SVN texlive (new) commit: r2625 - in texlive-new/trunk: all/debian texlive-bin/debian texlive-bin/debian/patches

Author: frank
Date: 2007-04-02 17:08:40 +0000 (Mon, 02 Apr 2007)
New Revision: 2625

Added:
   texlive-new/trunk/texlive-bin/debian/compare-texmf.cnf.sh
   texlive-new/trunk/texlive-bin/debian/texmf.cnf.sed
Modified:
   texlive-new/trunk/all/debian/rules.in
   texlive-new/trunk/texlive-bin/debian/changelog
   texlive-new/trunk/texlive-bin/debian/patches/50_fmtutil_deb
Log:
Added two scripts which allow to compare our upstream-provided
texmf.cnf (which will not be used) with the texmf.cnf generated from
tex-common's snippets, and let the build fail if both show other than
the known differences.  This is run in the clean and build targets and
allows to track upstream changes.

In order to build on non-clean systems, export
DEBIAN_NOCHECK_TEXMFCNF=true (or, actually, anything nonzero)

[For the full diff, use svn diff.]

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Frank Küster | 3 Apr 2007 14:04
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Re: Aramaic and archaic fonts

Hi Emanuele,

Emanuele Rodo <rodo <at> physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> So, here my experience with the texlive-fonts-extra package, using fonts for 
> aramaic and other semitic languages.
>
> Installing it, aramaic fonts worked fine - so, my earlier request has no reason
> to be considered. 

Okay.

> However, using the asamples.tex you'll find attached, the sarabian.sty
> seems to be missing.

Hm, asamples.tex runs fine here, and uses sarabian.sty which is also in
texlive-fonts-extra:

$ latex asamples.tex 
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./asamples.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, bulgarian, russian, ukrainian, french, basque, french, german, nger
man, german, ngerman, polish, polish, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
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Emanuele Rodo | 3 Apr 2007 14:32
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Re: Aramaic and archaic fonts


Hallo Frank,

> > However, using the asamples.tex you'll find attached, the sarabian.sty
> > seems to be missing.
> 
> Hm, asamples.tex runs fine here, and uses sarabian.sty which is also in
> texlive-fonts-extra:

No, I couldn't find it. This is my output:

omakuwa <at> quad:~/Desktop/Sprach/archaic$ latex asamples.tex
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
entering extended mode
(./asamples.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8g> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,
dumylang, noh
yphenation, french, basque, german, ngerman, italian, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/archaic/protosem.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/archaic/phoenician.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/archaic/greek6cbc.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/archaic/greek4cbc.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/archaic/etruscan.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/archaic/runic.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/archaic/linearb.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/archaic/cypriot.sty)
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Frank Küster | 3 Apr 2007 14:15
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Bug#417576: texlive-fonts-recommended: tfm files in doc dir

Package: texlive-fonts-recommended
Version: 2007-1
Severity: normal

$ dlocate fmvr8x
texlive-fonts-recommended: /usr/share/doc/texlive-fonts-recommended/latex/marvosym/mac/oztex/tex-font/misc/fmvr8x.tfm
texlive-fonts-recommended: /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/marvosym/mac/oztex/tex-font/misc/fmvr8x.tfm

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