http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31686 <pre>Hi, In TLUtils.pm, the string 'amd64-kfreebsd' =&gt; 'x86_64 with GNU/FreeBSD' should be changed to 'amd64-kfreebsd' =&gt; 'x86_64 with GNU/kFreeBSD' Best, </pre> Nikola Lečić 2012-05-25T16:23:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31684 <pre>Howdy, After the problems with updates using tlmgr (via TeX Live Utility on Mac) yesterday (detailed by Bruno and quickly diagnosed by Norbert) today there was a new tlmgr and the downloads went smoothly. Thanks for the quick fix Norbert. Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) </pre> Herbert Schulz 2012-05-25T11:51:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31676 <pre> I have installed the pretest on window XP SP3, and on Windows 7. Mostly it went well. I installed a custom scheme and all errors (except one, but I'll get to that) seem to have been my fault. Once I had everything installed, I installed some extra packages, deleted others, and ran tlmgr update --all. All went well on both machines. The winXP installation was on my office computer with a fast internet connection. It completed in just over 1 hour with no problems. The win7 installation was on my laptop with a home DSL connection. It took a little over 3 hours total, with a glitch at about 2.5 hours, probably due to a corrupted download. I have only two concerns. 1. Th mentioned glitch was a message from tar, complaining of "unexpected end of (something)" followed by a pop up window saying perl "has stopped working" and the installation aborted. I think this was a corrupted download of xifthen. It seems strange that an error in tar could lead to perl hanging, but that could be windows-specific. When I re</pre> Dan Luecking 2012-05-24T18:02:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31659 <pre>TL'2012 After last update --self tlmgr returns Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 3542, near "m!^(http|ftp)://!u" syntax error at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 3542, near "m!^(http|ftp)://!u" Global symbol "$p" requires explicit package name at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 3548. Global symbol "$p" requires explicit package name at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 3550. Global symbol "$p" requires explicit package name at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 3566. Global symbol "$p" requires explicit package name at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 3569. Global symbol "$p" requires explicit package name at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 3570. Global symbol "$p" requires explicit package name at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 3572. Global symbol "$what" requires explicit package name at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 3576. Global symbol "%repos" requires explicit package name at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 3583. Global symbol "%repos" requires explicit package name at /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 3584. Global symbol "%repos" requires explicit package name at</pre> Victor Ivrii 2012-05-24T06:40:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31655 <pre>Hi, with current TeX Live, a luatex run over a simple "hello\bye" file gives here: This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.2-2012052309 (TeX Live 2012) restricted \write18 enabled. (./hello.tex [1{/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdfte x.map}] ) &lt;/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/dpi600/ cmr10.pk&gt; Output written on hello.pdf (1 page, 2446 bytes). Transcript written on hello.log. Only pk fonts used, something with map (path? search?) seems to be broken. Is it just here? Regards, Hartmut </pre> Hartmut Henkel 2012-05-23T21:22:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31654 <pre>Hello, I would like to commit a patch for ConTeXt that obeys the built-in TEXMFCNF variable, used for searching texmf.cnf file that sets all other variables. Last year the default value in TeX Live was a bit weird, so ConTeXt was using the following: $SELFAUTODIR $SELFAUTOPARENT $SELFAUTODIR/share/texmf-local/web2c $SELFAUTODIR/share/texmf/web2c $SELFAUTODIR/texmf-local/web2c $SELFAUTODIR/texmf/web2c $SELFAUTOPARENT $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf-local/web2c $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf/web2c $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-local/web2c $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf/web2c In other words: 2012/bin 2012 2012/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c 2012/bin/share/texmf/web2c 2012/bin/texmf-local/web2c 2012/bin/texmf/web2c 2012 2012/share/texmf-local/web2c 2012/share/texmf/web2c 2012/texmf-local/web2c 2012/texmf/web2c or, if you want, for a typical linux distribution with binaries in /usr/bin: /usr/bin /usr /usr/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c /usr/bin/share/texmf/web2c /usr/bin/texmf-local/web2c /usr/bin/texmf/web2c /usr /usr/share/texmf-loc</pre> Mojca Miklavec 2012-05-23T20:52:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31652 <pre>The current texdoc system fails to find any documentation for all of the subpackages that are part of the expl3 bundle. I would like to suggest adding the following aliases to the global texdoc.cnf: aliasl3clist = interface3 aliasl3token = interface3 aliasl3prop = interface3 aliasl3msg = interface3 aliasl3file = interface3 aliasl3skip = interface3 aliasl3keys = interface3 aliasl3fp = interface3 aliasl3box = interface3 aliasl3coffins = interface3 aliasl3color = interface3 aliasl3luatex = interface3 The interface3.pdf document is the correct documentation for these packages. Alan </pre> Alan Munn 2012-05-23T15:19:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31638 <pre>Is the MacTeX pretest broken? I've tried downloading from three servers (HTTP in China, two in USA), and the download (which is 20 May) stops early (5585.6, 61.8, 154.2 MB) and then (obviously) fails to install. It could also be a network issue in my end, though the network here usually works fine. Michael </pre> Michael Welsh 2012-05-23T00:33:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31633 <pre> Hello, one recurrent problem with font installation is caused by mixed calls of updmap and updmap-sys (or on miktex of updmap / updmap --admin). While it is normally rather easy (for me) to identify the cause of the problem I find it difficult (as a Windows and MikTeX user) to tell TeXLive users what to do to resolve the problem. I would find it useful if some exact informations could be collected to help people to sort out the map files without breaking something else. So here a list of questions: (Assuming a current TeXLive) A. updmap ========= 1. Which updmap.cfg's is updmap reading a) root names as "kpse-variable" b) a typical path on unix c) a typical path on windows 2. Which updmap.cfg does "updmap --enable Map" change? 3. In which texmf tree does updmap write the map-files? 4. Which map-files does updmap write? 5. Does updmap generate a log-file by default? If yes: where is it on unix on windows when you call updmap manually </pre> Ulrike Fischer 2012-05-22T14:17:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31626 <pre>Hi, before the TL 2012 release, I wanted to let you know a very annoying trouble I experienced today in a LaTeX course. Two students tried to install TL 2011 on their netbook but it was impossible for them to resize (in height) the TL (install-tl-advanced) GUI window which hence was too short: so they were unable to see the "Install TeX Live" button. We had blindly use the TAB and Enter keys to start the installation! So I strongly suggest to make this GUI resizable. Best regards. </pre> Denis BITOUZE 2012-05-21T17:04:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31606 <pre> Hello, In my TUG newsletter you invited me to test out TexLive 2012, so I did and the installation and my test went smoothly. I compiled a set of notes (over 3000 pages) using the 2012 version and all is well. Thanks for the great work, I look forward to getting the real 2012 DVD. I will continue using the pre-release and report any issues I find going forward. FYI this is the procedure I used to do the installation: (1) First step was to go this website and pick a mirror site: http://tug.org/texlive/mirmon/ I clicked on the link for 'www.math.utah.edu' which supports http. Clicking on this link took me to the website: http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub//texlive/tlpretest/ where I clicked on 'install-tl-unx.tar.gz' and with right mouse selected 'Save Link As...', so that I could download this file into ~/Downloads. (2) Next was to unpack the downloaded installer app: cd /tmp gunzip install-tl-unx.tar.gz tar xvf install-tl-unx.tar cd install-tl-20120517 (3) Run the a</pre> Glenn Todd Miller 2012-05-18T18:21:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31605 <pre>Hi, As you will note from other current post I have text involving a price which is set in bold type. The other issue involved with this is that this price comes at the end of a paragraph outlining the author/title/description of a book that is one solid paragraph. I want that where the paragraph ends, the last line, it is set to the left and the price is set to the right on the same line. I use the code shown below but this results in the price being set to the right on the next line. I can find no way to keep the price on the same line. Obviously if there is too much text in that last line and no room is left for a right-aligned price, then of course the price must be set to the right of a newline. \textbf{\#19493 Burton, A.R.E.} CAPE COLONY FOR THE SETTLER. An Account Of Its Urban And Rural Industries, Their Probable Future Development And Extension. \textit{Brown gilt boards, 11pp+355pp+46pp of illustrated adverts, tables, maps, plates. Boards loose and worn, some small holes to spine edge, front b</pre> Anne Wainwright 2012-05-18T19:19:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31604 <pre>Hi, post no.3, but here we are at the nub of things. I produce a book catalogue. This involves extracting the appropriate fields out of my database and running it through a perl script to produce a file with each record containing tex mark up so that it will format nicely in typical book dealer format. After some hours spent browsing the tex help files on my system and looking on the main tex site I was surprised not to find any ready made system for this. Not that this has been a major issue as I have managed reasonably well, but I did imagine that I might have found a more flexible and creative package than my own efforts have produced. If any one knows of something that might exist in this area I would be pleased to hear of it. regards Anne </pre> Anne Wainwright 2012-05-18T19:26:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31603 <pre>Hi, My perl script used to convert database files into a tex like file produces the following bit of code. \begin{math}\mathbf{\boldsymbol{\pounds}25.00}\end{math} This was the only way that I could get a 'bold' pound sign, but this is in an italic font, only the pound sign - not the numerals. It doesn't look bad, but then I would prefer it in an upright font, what am I doing wrong here? Any guidance greatfully received. Anne </pre> Anne Wainwright 2012-05-18T19:07:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31598 <pre>TL 2012, Mac OS X 10.6.8. I just ran tlmgr update --all against the Utah pretest mirror using TeX Live Utility, and updmap-sys fails: running updmap-sys ... updmap-sys failed (status 2), output: Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by &lt;-- HERE in m/(/var/folders/gf/gf2bDLqLEWypyyNLFbXijE+++ &lt;-- HERE TI/-Tmp-/Library/texmf|/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-config)/web2c/updmap.cfg/ at /usr/texbin/updmap line 297. Based on the error message, it looks like the path to my temporary directory is used unescaped in a regex. Note that this path is pretty typical for $TMPDIR on OS X. $ tlmgr --version tlmgr revision 26408 (2012-05-15 17:03:45 +0200) tlmgr using installation: /usr/local/texlive/2012 TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2012 thanks, Adam </pre> Maxwell, Adam R 2012-05-18T16:00:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31589 <pre>Hello, installation is tlpretest on WinXP. When I try to add a mapfile I get the following error: ,---- | Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] | (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. | | d:\&gt;kpsewhich ul9.map | c:/Programme/texlive/2012/../texmf-local/fonts/map/dvips/luxi/ul9.map/ul9.map | | d:\&gt;updmap-sys --enable Map=ul9.map | updmap.pl is using the following updmap.cfg files (in precedence order): | c:/Programme/texlive/2012/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg | c:/Programme/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg | updmap.pl: top config file c:/programme/texlive/2012/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg has not been read. at c:/Programme/te | xlive/2012/texmf/scripts/tetex/updmap.pl line 1197. | C:\Programme\texlive\2012\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:587: command failed with exit code 255: | perl.exe c:/Programme/texlive/2012/texmf/scripts/tetex/updmap.pl --enable Map=ul9.map `---- </pre> Uwe Siart 2012-05-16T10:23:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31587 <pre>Dear all, on the debian side we got a bug report that some pdfjam/pdfnup commands don't work. It seems to be a problem with a specific pdf file which was created by cairo from an svg, this is as far as I could narrow it down. I attach the onefig.pdf But only when it is included *two* times and *only* when the option nup=1x1 is set, at least as far as I see ... $ cat test.tex \documentclass{article} \usepackage{graphicx} \begin{document} \includegraphics{onefig.pdf} \newpage \includegraphics{onefig.pdf} \end{document} $ cat inc.tex \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pdfpages} \begin{document} \includepdfmerge[nup=1x1]{test.pdf,-} \end{document} .... On TeX Live 2011: $ pdflatex inc ... (/home/norbert/tl/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/epstopdf-sys.cfg)) &lt;test.pdf, id=3, page=1, 614.295pt x 794.97pt&gt; &lt;use test.pdf, page 1&gt; &lt;use test.pdf, page 1&gt; &lt;use test.pdf, page 1&gt; &lt;use test.pdf, page 1&gt; &lt;use test.pdf, page 1&gt; [1 &lt;./test.pdf{/home/norbert/tl/2011/texmf-var/fonts/map /pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}&gt;]</pre> Norbert Preining 2012-05-15T02:02:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31584 <pre>Yan Zhou, I made the MacTeX-2012 package immediately after the pretest was announced. The install-tl script was still configured to install in /usr/local/texlive/2011, but I changed this location to /usr/local/texlive/2012 in the initial stage of running the script. When the location is changed, texmf-local is placed in the install directory rather than its usual position. This problem will be fixed the next time I make MacTeX, because the install-tl script will install in the expected place. The next MacTeX will appear in about a week. Dick Koch </pre> Richard Koch 2012-05-14T19:14:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31583 <pre>Dear all, I just installed TL2012 pretest, with MacTeX version. However, the texmf-local directory and the TEXMFLOCAL variable now points to /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-local instead of /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local as before. Is is on purpose? In addition, this new locations seems do not work properly. I manually removed this directory and linked it to the old one, without changing any TL setting. So now kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFLOCAL still points to ..../2012/texmf-local which is a symbolic link now. However, when trying to run updmap-sys, it seems the map files in the texmf-local are not read as before. Best, Yan </pre> Yan Zhou 2012-05-14T14:08:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31580 <pre>Hi Arthur, hi everyone, coming back to a thread from 2010: I think there is something we have to fix in one of the packages! This problem was *not* present in TL2009. Here another instance and analysis sent my a bug reported on Debian. ----- Forwarded message from Kirill Smelkov &lt;kirr&lt; at &gt;navytux.spb.ru&gt; ----- ----- End forwarded message ----- Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norbert Preining preining&lt; at &gt;{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TeX Live &amp; Debian Developer DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The story goes that I first had the idea for THHGTTG while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck (or `Spain' as the BBC TV publicity department authorititively has it, probably because it's easier to spell). --- Foreward by DNA. --- Douglas Adams, The H</pre> Norbert Preining 2012-05-13T22:43:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/31576 <pre>FYI, TL'11 is now frozen forever. The final tlnet is at ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2011/tlnet-final/ as with previous years. The live tlnet on tug and CTAN is the same as this TL'11 tlnet-final, and will remain so until the release of TL'12. We are starting the pretest for TL'12: http://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html. However, don't rush to install it, since no new binaries have been committed yet (among other reasons). In a few days will be soon enough to give it a try. We will continue to update normally from CTAN for at least a few more days, perhaps a week or even two, but the updates will go to tlpretest and not tlnet. (So, LaTeX 3 people, you should hold off on updating CTAN if you don't want your new version to be on the DVD. I wasn't entirely clear on the plan from Joseph's message to latex-l.) Fingers crossed, karl </pre> Karl Berry 2012-05-12T22:20:43 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.tex.live