1.5.16 tetex 3.0.0-3 format file problem

2005-05-16 Thread Mcdougall, Robert A.
With the latest tetex build, I can't get *tex to use its format files: 516$ latex aleph.tex This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) file:line:error style messages enabled. %&-line parsing enabled. ---! /cygdrive/c/home/mcdougar/.texmf/var/web2c/latex.fmt was written by tex (Fa

RE: 1.5.16 tetex 3.0.0-3 format file problem

2005-05-17 Thread Mcdougall, Robert A.
"Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:40 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: 1.5.16 tetex 3.0.0-3 format file problem > Robert A. Mcdougall writes: > The format was generated

RE: tetex 3.0.0-3 format file problem

2005-05-19 Thread Mcdougall, Robert A.
"m. z." wrote: BTAM, the wizards will not reply to such naive questions as yours or mine. FWIW, here's what I've found out: > Why doing "latex" is invoking now pdf format ? According to the teTeX manual ('doc/tetex/TETEXDOC.{dvi,pdf,ps}'), section 4.6, "pdfetex: the new default TEX engine":

RE: tetex 3.0.0-3 format file problem

2005-05-19 Thread Mcdougall, Robert A.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:59 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: tetex 3.0.0-3 format file problem [tetex maintainer -- please respond] > Jan, can you provide any insight here? Apologies if this is unnecessary, but b

RE: tetex 3.0.0-3 format file problem

2005-05-20 Thread Mcdougall, Robert A.
"Jan Nieuwenhuizen" wrote: > What config files did you have to remove? It would be nice to > check for those in the postinstall script. First (ref. messages 943, 789), I suspect now I was in error in saying that removing config files fixed the problem. In fact I nuked a whole '$TEXMFLOCAL/web2