[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
texlive-base (2007-14) unstable; urgency=low * fix latin.ldf with the version from CTAN (Closes: #451295) (and also closes Ubuntu bug #157709) * Update location of upstream iso.zip file in uscan watch file (closes: #449619), thanks to Raphael Geissert [fk] * do not install tex/latex

Re: [Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2009-01-20 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 19 Jan 2009, nigel wrote: > I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and have run into the same problem. I have > read the thread and have a question. Why didn't you just inform this A placeholder was added to texlive-latex-base in version 2007-14 in Debian from 19 April 2008. So I consider this fixed.

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2009-01-19 Thread nigel
I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and have run into the same problem. I have read the thread and have a question. Why didn't you just inform this thread that fancyheadings.py was depreciated in 1996. (excerpt from fancyhdr and fancyheadings) % May 7, 1996: % version 1.98: % Added % after the line \def\

Re: [Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2008-04-13 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 07 Apr 2008, saulius wrote: > Please, put the fancyheadings.sty back into some Ubuntu package. The next texlive packages in Debian will already contain a dummy package calling fancyhdr since it was uploaded to CTAN. Things every one of you could have done, too. Best wishes Norbert --

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2008-04-07 Thread saulius
I can confirm that the fancyheadings.sty is not installed withe neither texlive-latex-extra nor tetex-extra packages. I do not see any reason to declare the packages fancyheadings.sty as obsolete; even if there is one, there is no reason to remove it from Ubuntu, ever. If not in main packages, i

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2008-03-02 Thread bigbug21
I have just updated my Kubuntu from 7.04 to 7.10 and was a little shocked to see that one of my favorite LaTeX styles went missing. Seriously: Fancyheadings is described in a number of LaTeX books. In fact, it's part of my private letterhead that I based on an detailed example letterhead in Kopkas

Re: [Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2008-01-18 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 17 Jan 2008, kenned wrote: > Just wanted to chime in, saying that at our university we also the > fancyheadings in a ton of documents, and I would much prefer to waste a > bit of space, instead of having to go through all the docs changing the > latex source and verifying that the layout is

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2008-01-17 Thread kenned
Just wanted to chime in, saying that at our university we also the fancyheadings in a ton of documents, and I would much prefer to waste a bit of space, instead of having to go through all the docs changing the latex source and verifying that the layout is unaffected by the change. Cheers, Kenneth

Re: [Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-11-16 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 14 Nov 2007, DJB wrote: > I too would like fancyheaders.sty back. Its used often, and clearly not > everyone agrees the obsolete label is correct. Hell, prof's are still The obsolete label is correct as defined by the position on the CTAN archive in obsolte ... > insisting at my school (

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-11-14 Thread DJB
I too would like fancyheaders.sty back. Its used often, and clearly not everyone agrees the obsolete label is correct. Hell, prof's are still insisting at my school (CMU) that proofs are typeset with it. What is the problem with keeping it? its only 9286 bytes in feisty! The argument that some

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-10-23 Thread Christoph Lechleitner
Such a "redirect" style could have been integrated to tex-live ;-)) But I can see that a new tex distribution won't care for all addons of all other tex distributions. For me and the other people with document bases uses fancyheadings.sty, the TEXMFLOCAL approach is far more convenient, even if w

Re: [Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-10-23 Thread Norbert Preining
On Di, 23 Okt 2007, Christoph Lechleitner wrote: > sudo wget http://www.ibcl.at/files/fancyheadings/fancyheadings.sty I would have created a fancyheadings.sty as follows: \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e} \ProvidesPackage{fancyheadings} \PackageWarning{fancyheadings}{% = WARNING

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-10-23 Thread Christoph Lechleitner
As it took me half an hour's research to follow the TEXMFLOCAL hint above, I decided to create a Mini-HowTo and took the liberty of making the two .sty files available: These steps make fancyheadings.sty (from Ubuntu feisty's tetex-extra package) available in Ubuntu gutsy and took the liberty of m

Re: [Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-10-17 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 17 Okt 2007, Tjl wrote: > I must agree with the above comments that fancyheadings.sty certainly > should not be removed - backwards compatibility is of paramount fancyheadings was latex209, it can be found on CTAN/obsolete/macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings.tar.gz (note the obso

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-10-17 Thread Gijs Peek
Maybe a transitional period would also be fine, in which using the fancyheadings just displays a deprecation warning. -- fancyheadings.sty disappeared https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132399 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ub

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-10-17 Thread Tjl
I must agree with the above comments that fancyheadings.sty certainly should not be removed - backwards compatibility is of paramount importance: I must be able to compile my old docs without jumping through hoops. Not including it will waste several peoples' time down the line. Please do add back

Re: [Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-10-17 Thread Ming Hua
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 01:13:05AM -, luke2760 wrote: > I just spent an hour trying to decipher this error message from plywood, a > latex package which I installed after upgrading: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/plywood", line 5, in > from pkg_resources import lo

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-10-16 Thread luke2760
I just spent an hour trying to decipher this error message from plywood, a latex package which I installed after upgrading: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/plywood", line 5, in from pkg_resources import load_entry_point ImportError: No module named pkg_resources Turns out

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-09-28 Thread Christoph Lechleitner
I solved my performance problem with tex stuff run as non-root, using top and Google: In this article ... http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/MacOSX-TeX-Digests/2001/MacOSX-TeX_Digest_11-26-01.html ... from 2001 (!) I found: --- SNIP --- - Added '$HOME contains //' check to TeXGSInstaller installation

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-09-27 Thread Christoph Lechleitner
First let me apologize for my sour note above. In the first place I just wanted to know if anyone besides me is missing this fancyheadings style, too. Then I just wanted to confirm the simple fact, but sometimes my fresh angry thoughts fall in a feedback loop ;-(( Secondly, MANY THANKS for the t

Re: [Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-09-27 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 27 Sep 2007, Christoph Lechleitner wrote: > First, s/fancyheadings/fancyhdr/ does not help, the headings does not > look correct then. >From the README: | fancyhdr is 99% compatible with fancyheadings. The only incompatibility is | that \headrulewidth and \footrulewidth and their \plain...

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-09-27 Thread Christoph Lechleitner
First, s/fancyheadings/fancyhdr/ does not help, the headings does not look correct then. Maybe it's not that much to change, but I still see no reason to kill fancyheadings.sty. We and at least on other firm I know use fancyheadings in script- generated documents for automatic invoice prodution.

Re: [Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-09-27 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi! On Do, 27 Sep 2007, Christoph Lechleitner wrote: > I googled some comment that said that fancyheadings.sty was removed from > debian's TeX packages because it has been marked obsolete for some time. > This is very ruthless youngster thinking and absolutly unacceptable! Come down boy ... ever

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-09-27 Thread Christoph Lechleitner
The fact that fancyheadings.sty is missing in gutsy is obiously true and I therefore confirm it. ** Changed in: texlive-base (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- fancyheadings.sty disappeared https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132399 You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-09-27 Thread Christoph Lechleitner
fancyheadings.sty is present in feisty's tetex-extra package, but is missing from gutsy's TeX Live package. I googled some comment that said that fancyheadings.sty was removed from debian's TeX packages because it has been marked obsolete for some time. This is very ruthless youngster thinking an

[Bug 132399] Re: fancyheadings.sty disappeared

2007-08-14 Thread Gijs Peek
I'm running gutsy, don't know about feisty -- fancyheadings.sty disappeared https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132399 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://li