On 6 March 2016 at 13:23, Norbert Preining wrote:
| Dear all
|
| > BINGO -- once I add that things pass with the new texinfo.tex
|
| Good.
|
| I have uploaded texinfo -5 just now, should be in the repos in
| no time.
|
| After this, please remove the old texinfo.tex copies - we had to
| fight
Dear all
> BINGO -- once I add that things pass with the new texinfo.tex
Good.
I have uploaded texinfo -5 just now, should be in the repos in
no time.
After this, please remove the old texinfo.tex copies - we had to
fight with outdated texinfo.tex for too often around the 4.8
times, I try to m
On 6 March 2016 at 11:15, Norbert Preining wrote:
| Hi all,
|
| On Sat, 05 Mar 2016, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm1440
|
| apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended
BINGO -- once I add that things pass with the new texinfo.tex
| Since 6.0 or so in some circumstan
Hi all,
On Sat, 05 Mar 2016, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm1440
apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended
Since 6.0 or so in some circumstances this is necessary, due to the
usage of T1 encoded fonts. It depends on the texi input file,
so it is not a strong dependency.
On 5 March 2016 at 19:11, Martin Maechler wrote:
| Well, I'm not so much of a "real texinfo user", but
| @Dirk: You must have messed up badly: In your run Metafont is called
| because tex can't find fonts, and then "tears indeed".
The observation is correct, the inference is not.
This is the e
Well, I'm not so much of a "real texinfo user", but
@Dirk: You must have messed up badly: In your run Metafont is called
because tex can't find fonts, and then "tears indeed".
If I just do what Norbert suggested, placing his new texinfo.tex in
my local directory then the minimal example runs
On 5 March 2016 at 23:37, Norbert Preining wrote:
| Hi all (Debian only)
|
| On Sat, 05 Mar 2016, Gavin Smith wrote:
| > Done in SVN revision 7041. Please email if there are further problems.
|
| I have prepare a new version of texinfo package, can you please check
| whether the attached texinfo
Thanks Gavin,
> Done in SVN revision 7041. Please email if there are further problems.
I have prepared a new version for Debian and asked the ess team
to see if that works out. We will surely come back if there
are any problems.
Thanks a big big many times for your great support!!!
Norbert
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On 4 March 2016 at 21:28, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On 4 March 2016 at 04:01, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> The output is:
>> ./bla.texi:9: Argument of @gobblespaces has an extra }.
>
> I got the same. I think it's easy enough to fix. The only possible
> problem is that this error comes about due to an a
Dear all,
down here at Debian we got another bug report about a FTBFS, which
went away when switching to an older version of texinfo.tex:
On Thu, 03 Mar 2016, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Ok, the obvious fix of fattening the source directory with a working copy of
> texinfo.tex did the trick.
I ha
Just a quick 'thumbs up' from here -- it is actually quite remarkable that we
do maintain buildability of these pieces over so many years and decaded, and
I really appreciate how we're going calmly about the business of maintaining
that tradition.
Thanks to Norbert for distilling that minimal exa
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
>> > I have reduced the problematic case to the following minimal example:
>
> Thank you for taking the time to do this, Norbert.
>
>> From these two facts I'd declare that the new texinfo.tex that
>> you have in Debian is broken.
>> (Yes, th
> > I have reduced the problematic case to the following minimal example:
Thank you for taking the time to do this, Norbert.
> From these two facts I'd declare that the new texinfo.tex that
> you have in Debian is broken.
> (Yes, that is a strong statement; but still breaking something
> tha
On 4 March 2016 at 04:01, Norbert Preining wrote:
> The output is:
> ./bla.texi:9: Argument of @gobblespaces has an extra }.
I got the same. I think it's easy enough to fix. The only possible
problem is that this error comes about due to an attempt to remove
whitespace from the start of a macro a
> Norbert Preining
> on Fri, 4 Mar 2016 13:01:23 +0900 writes:
> Dear all,
> down here at Debian we got another bug report about a FTBFS, which
> went away when switching to an older version of texinfo.tex:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>> Ok, t
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