On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 07:37:28AM +0100, tlaro...@kergis.com wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 06:11:44PM -0800, Paul Lalonde wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > I'm trying to install LaTeX so I can write up some results; I'm afraid I'm
> > not much good with troff.
> > I get a successful install, and which_kertex does the expected thing.
> > But when I try '$KERTEX_SHELL $KERTEX_LIBDIR/pkg/rcp/latex.sh install' I
> > get missing dependencies that I don't know how to resolve. KerTex reports
> > version 0.99.25.01
> >
>
> Just add the "-a" flag to automatically install missing dependencies:
>
> $KERTEX_SHELL $KERTEX_LIBDIR/pkg/rc/latex.sh -a install
>
> (The only thing that doesn't work on Plan9 is the conversion of
> beamer's slides from dvi to PostScript because ghostscript is too old to
> understand
^^^^^^^^^
Correcting myself: dvi to ps works (with kerTeX dvips) but interpreting this
PostScript by Plan9 ghostscript to generate PDF fails.
> transparency. Everything else not working is a bug or a missing
> recipe for some CTAN package. Just report ;-)
BTW, for totally other reasons (I need to find a way to fill a PDF
AcroForm on command line), I found pdfio:
https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pdfio
that is C and is under Apache License (needs to be extended---I'm on
it---, but it is C not C++, and neither Afero nor GPL). FWIW.
--
Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ kergis +dot+ com>
http://www.kergis.com/
http://kertex.kergis.com/
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