Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Could you run lib/configure by hand with the --keep-temps option? You > should then see that a chklayout.tex file has been created. I do > not think that any latex tool is used to create it. Well, it works now (with all my LyX installations and versions). Seems I have

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> I finally repaced teTeX with TL 2004 (removed teTeX Juergen> completely and installed TL from the CD). Now LyX doesn't Juergen> find the classes anymore. Juergen> From the command line, everything works fine. Also, Juerg

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-21 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: > The package "microtype" can handle > font expansion and character protrusion AFAIK. Exactly. \usepackage{microtype} will give you satisfying results for the most common fonts. Microtype is the successor of the package pdfcprot, which did only character protusion. \use

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
Hi Dominik, you're right, I do indeed have 1.10b. Thanks for the tip. I'll follow up on the sources you mentioned. S. On Nov 21, 2004, at 10:48 AM, Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Stefano Franchi schrieb: [...] could you tell a user like me who is really missing margin kerning and font expansion

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Dominik Waßenhoven
Stefano Franchi schrieb: [...] could you tell a user like me who is really missing margin kerning and font expansion what he needs to do to switch the backend of LyX from Latex to pdfetex? Is it just a matter of simlinking latex to pdfetex? I am on MacOS 10.3 with the teTeX distribution inst

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Nov 21, 2004, at 4:55 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: What are the differences among all these different TeX/LaTeX distributions? Not in fine detail, but in general. What's wrong with the teTeX that comes with every linux distribution? Nothing, if you don't miss anything spe

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Charles de Miramon wrote: What are the main differences between teTeX and TeXLive ? Is TeXLive just more uptodate ? Basically: (much) more packages. this is not really true. Compare the number of packages for _one_ platform, e.g. for the teTeX one. teTeX contains a sel

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Charles de Miramon wrote: > What are the main differences between teTeX and TeXLive ? Is TeXLive just > more uptodate ? Basically: (much) more packages. teTeX contains a selection of packages which are considered important by its maintainer (but you can certainly always get the missing packages

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Charles de Miramon wrote: What are the main differences between teTeX and TeXLive ? Is TeXLive just more uptodate ? no. TeX-Live contains TeX systems for different platforms and you can run it directly from CD. Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/ http://PSTricks.de/ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/mat

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Charles de Miramon
What are the main differences between teTeX and TeXLive ? Is TeXLive just more uptodate ? Charles http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: "Margin kerning is the adjustments of the characters at the margins of a typeset text. A simplified employment of margin kerning is hanging punctuation. Margin kerning is needed for optical alignment of the margins of a typeset text, because mechanic

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rich Shepard wrote: > What are the differences among all these different TeX/LaTeX > distributions? Not in fine detail, but in general. What's wrong with the > teTeX that comes with every linux distribution? Nothing, if you don't miss anything specifically. >    I ask as a user of the tools, part

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: I decided to go ahead my laziness and just filled out an application form :-) fine :-) Actually, it works now. I have done nothing but a little digging, then after compilation #x, it just worked. All I had to do is create a symlink /usr/local/texmf-local/texmf-var -> /

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: > > I see. I wanted to replace teTeX with TL long ago. So I just decided now > > to use bleeding edge (I didn't want to download the huge image twice; I > > know, I should become dante member; I will, some day). > > yes, I think so ... :-) At the least meeting in Hannover we dec

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: I see. I wanted to replace teTeX with TL long ago. So I just decided now to use bleeding edge (I didn't want to download the huge image twice; I know, I should become dante member; I will, some day). yes, I think so ... :-) At the least meeting in Hannover we decided t

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: > TeXLive will not be released this year, too many problems. > But where is the problem to install only the new pdflatex? I tried it (from source) and screwed up my whole installation. pfdlatex 1.20a has also a new structure (e.g. map files), and it doesn't run out of the box

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: I finally repaced teTeX with TL 2004 (removed teTeX completely and installed TL from the CD). Now LyX doesn't find the classes anymore. TL2004 is really experimental ... I thought it'll be released soon. Anyway, I need automatic font expansion, therefore pdflatex 1.20a

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: > > I finally repaced teTeX with TL 2004 (removed teTeX completely and > > installed TL from the CD). Now LyX doesn't find the classes anymore. > > TL2004 is really experimental ... I thought it'll be released soon. Anyway, I need automatic font expansion, therefore pdflatex 1

Re: Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: I finally repaced teTeX with TL 2004 (removed teTeX completely and installed TL from the CD). Now LyX doesn't find the classes anymore. TL2004 is really experimental ... Indeed, the chklayouts file has not been build. Any ideas? (Could it be LyX is confused because late

Problems with TeXLive 2004

2004-11-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
I finally repaced teTeX with TL 2004 (removed teTeX completely and installed TL from the CD). Now LyX doesn't find the classes anymore. From the command line, everything works fine. Also, TeXFiles.sh finds the classes. But the configure returns "not functional" for "latex latex2e". And "latex c