Bug#363061: [tex-live] Unclear License of AMSLaTeX

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas Esser
> Furthermore, tex.web and mf.web are under an even more "restrictive" > license. This is "blessed" by rms, because of the change file machanism we have. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#361564: tetex-extra: sample file plbib.bib is ill-formed

2006-04-11 Thread Thomas Esser
> > +++ plbib.bib 2006-04-08 21:44:53.0 -0400 ... > > -% According to Staszek Wawrykiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, these files > > Do you know whether the file is still maintained by Staszek, or should > we just upload this or an other fix to CTAN? I have no idea if Staszek has ever mainta

Bug#358330: [tex-k] Re: Bug#358330: [tex-live] KPSE_DOT in fmtutil: Why set to `pwd`?

2006-03-27 Thread Thomas Esser
> I can put it back. Yes, that would be good, thanks. > I guess TETEXDIR is always specified as an absolute path? Yes. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#358330: [tex-k] Re: Bug#358330: [tex-live] KPSE_DOT in fmtutil: Why set to `pwd`?

2006-03-27 Thread Thomas Esser
> Sounds reasonable to me. Thomas, Olaf? Ok for me. Ha! All this reminds me to TEXMF_CNF = $SELFAUTODIR:$SELFAUTOPARENT:/.$TETEXDIR which I have had in teTeX-0.2.1: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/build/tetex-0.2/kpse-2.4/kpathsea> ls -l texmf.cnf.in -rw-r--r-- 1 te users 3007 1994-10-31 14:11

Bug#358330: [tex-live] KPSE_DOT in fmtutil: Why set to `pwd`?

2006-03-27 Thread Thomas Esser
> $ kpsewhich --expand-var='$TEXMFCNF' > {/usr/bin,/usr,/}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,}/web2c}::/usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c > $ kpsewhich --expand-braces='$TEXMFCNF' > /usr/bin:/usr:/:/usr/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/share/texmf-local/web2c://share/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/bin/tex

Bug#358330: [tex-live] KPSE_DOT in fmtutil: Why set to `pwd`?

2006-03-26 Thread Thomas Esser
> : ${KPSE_DOT=$thisdir} > export KPSE_DOT The reason for me to implement KPSE_DOT in all kind of scripts (mktexpk, fmtutil etc.) was to try to immitate a regular call of mf / tex as close as possible. I.e. people might have a local hyphenation pattern file which they could use via tex -ini

Bug#354604: [tex-live] [patch] fmtutil and formats that preload other formats

2006-03-02 Thread Thomas Esser
> fmtutil sets and exports TEXINPUTS="$tmpdir:$TEXINPUTS", but that is not > sufficient. One has to set TEXFORMATS, too. I therefore suggest the > following patch, based on teTeX-3.0's version: > > I don't see why not. Thomas? Sure, good patch. Thanks, Frank. Thomas -- To UNSUB

Bug#253124: cyrtexinfo format in fmtutil.in

2005-10-17 Thread Thomas Esser
> i used cyrtexinfo format at least to allow russian hyphenation for texinfo. That is a good reason. I have reverted the line (commented out) in my fmtutil.in. Thanks for your explanation! Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Bug#105830: Please provide a method for packages to register themselves to texdoctk

2005-10-16 Thread Thomas Esser
Hi Frank+Thomas, > Therefore, besides TEXMFLOCAL and the users' texmf trees, I'd like to > have the possibility to include information that other packages¹ have > dropped into /usr/share/texmf/texdoctk/, or into $TEXMFCONFIG/texdoctk > if you prefer that. I don't think that maintaining large te

Bug#253124: cyrtexinfo format in fmtutil.in

2005-10-11 Thread Thomas Esser
Hi Frank, [sorry for the fullquote. It is to set Werner + Vladimir into the context] > Hallo Thomas, Karl, > > fmtutil.in contains the line: > > #! cyrtexinfo pdfetex language.dat-translate-file=cp227.tcx > *cyrtxinf.ini > > Do you know for what purpose this format is used? texi

Bug#329972: Missing initex and virtex

2005-09-26 Thread Thomas Esser
> | Sun Mar 28 13:14:45 CEST 2004 > | [...] > | * clean up texk/tetex/Makefile for manpage symlinks (initex, virtex > |etc. are no longer installed, so we don't need manpages for this). You can look up the discussion on the texlive list archives -- or try to find this information in the web2

Bug#303209: (fwd) Bug#303209: tetex-doc: Typo in /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/styles/placeins.txt

2005-08-29 Thread Thomas Esser
> Donald has uploaded a fixed version to CTAN. Please consider to > include the new version into teTeX upon next release. Done. Mo Aug 29 19:09:17 CEST 2005 * update placeins Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#320781: Manpage for updmap.cfg is missing

2005-08-24 Thread Thomas Esser
> man -l src/Packages/tetex-bin/tetex-bin-3.0/new-manpages/updmap.cfg.5 > with K\(:uster as you provided it, I only see: I see the right thing, if I run groff -man -Tps updmap.cfg.5 | gv - I think, that it is a matter of the backend (and man users the acsii backend, I guess) to support umlauts

Bug#320781: Manpage for updmap.cfg is missing

2005-08-24 Thread Thomas Esser
> Hilmar has written a manpage for updmap (some refinement by me), I > attach it. Thanks a lot, I have added it into my tree and submitted to TeX Live. > If you know how to get an umlaut into my name in > manpages... Hilmar's solution seems to be good enough for debian (which has groff). Since

Bug#215248: Man page for pdftosrc

2005-08-15 Thread Thomas Esser
> Thomas, Olaf is that intended as the main functionality of the > program should be implemented by pdftk (function unpack_files)? pdftosrc is a small program build on top of the xpdf libraries, so it uses the same code for accessing pdf objects as pdftex. I'd say that if the pdftex maintainers ar

Bug#322467: Please Help (was: Bug#322467: [CAN-2005-2097] Loca Table Verification Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability)

2005-08-12 Thread Thomas Esser
> This is why I'm contacting you, Thomas: Although according to the > CHANGES file we should have xpdf-3.00 just as the xpdf package has, but > at least one file (which should be patched) is missing in the teTeX > sources. The following changes are done to the original sources: - xpdf/GlobalPara

Bug#170773: (fwd) [max-appolo@mail.ru: CWEB Emacs mode]

2005-06-25 Thread Thomas Esser
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 05:29:03PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote: > your reasons), we'll make that specific to Debian and either: Yes, please do this. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#170773: (fwd) [max-appolo@mail.ru: CWEB Emacs mode]

2005-06-24 Thread Thomas Esser
> > I just plan not to add the new file to the source tree. The > > existing files which are part of the original distribution can > > stay. > As far as I understood the submitter, that file is not new, but > would be an replacement. That does not make a difference to me. I don't plan to add this

Bug#170773: (fwd) [max-appolo@mail.ru: CWEB Emacs mode]

2005-06-17 Thread Thomas Esser
> > That file exists in the tetex-src area and it could be installed > > from there. I'll pass this to Olaf Weber (web2c maintainer). > Thanks. We have agreed that I just copy that file into my texmf tree. > > While there are a few emacs lisp files that are distributed in > > teTeX, I don't think

Bug#299889: (fwd) Bug#299889: tetex-doc: typos in babel macro package's user.dvi.gz

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas Esser
> babel doc. Please consider to update babel upon next teTeX revision. Yes, will do. Thanks, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#289848: tetex-bin: pdflatex generates truncated seminar slides

2005-01-15 Thread Thomas Esser
> > I would not use and I am not using pdfTeX with seminar, too many problems. > > Do you mean this in the sense that we should not even support users who > still do it, and not put anything for pdfTeX in the conffile? If someone comes up with a good solution for pdftex, I'll add that code, of co