Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
On 04/12/2013 11:35 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi Rolf, On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:43:50PM +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: I don't, didn't, never have, and never will use hypdestopt!!! Do you see any reference to hypdestopt in the "demo" code? I figured that it had to come from somewhere i

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17 --- Solved?

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
Sorry, I did not mean to send my previous message to the list, since Joe Zeff had asked to email him off-list. I just clicked on "Reply" thinking my message would just go to the sender. (I didn't click on "Reply List" or "Reply All".) And then I didn't notice that the To field was the list

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17 --- Solved?

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
On 04/13/2013 05:16 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/12/2013 03:32 AM, Rolf Turner wrote: I realized that I should have been doing ps2pdf demo.ps not ps2pdf demo and *that* was the source of the error that I was getting. Brain fart. Don't worry about it. Tish happens. If you want to

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17 --- Solved?

2013-04-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/12/2013 03:32 AM, Rolf Turner wrote: I realized that I should have been doing ps2pdf demo.ps not ps2pdf demo and *that* was the source of the error that I was getting. Brain fart. Don't worry about it. Tish happens. If you want to know about one that had me going round i

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
> I said ***explicitly*** that "powerdot is not compatible with pdftex". > I did > "latex demo", ***NOT*** "pdflatex demo" and got the error that I > reported. > You may install kerTeX^{1} and in there latex is latex :) If you don't have Development Tools/Libraries installed do, # yum installgr

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 21:37 +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: > So I need somehow to get an installation of texlive where "latex" really > means > ***latex*** and not "pdftex". How the hell do I arrange that? > I'm a bit late to this party, but Jindrich Novy's Fedora TeXLive repo for F17 works well.

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Rolf, On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:43:50PM +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: > I don't, didn't, never have, and never will use hypdestopt!!! Do you > see any reference to hypdestopt in the "demo" code? > > I figured that it had to come from somewhere in the bowels of powerdot. > God know

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
Please see inline below. On 04/12/2013 10:29 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hello Rolf, On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 09:37:43PM +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: I said ***explicitly*** that "powerdot is not compatible with pdftex". I did "latex demo", ***NOT*** "pdflatex demo" and got the error that I reported.

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17 --- Solved?

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
Further to my previous message: Maybe I *am* a moron and not just an idiot studying hard to be one. I realized that I should have been doing ps2pdf demo.ps not ps2pdf demo and *that* was the source of the error that I was getting. So it all seems to be working now. I guess the pro

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hello Rolf, On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 09:37:43PM +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: > > I said ***explicitly*** that "powerdot is not compatible with pdftex". I > did > "latex demo", ***NOT*** "pdflatex demo" and got the error that I reported. A little patience and being concise helps a lot. If you knew

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
No. I certainly ***DID NOT*** "expect it to work with pdflatex"!!! Please read what I wrote. It's very irritating to be taken for a moron when one is only an idiot studying hard to be a moron and flunking the course! I said ***explicitly*** that "powerdot is not compatible with pdftex".

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Ed, On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 02:46:52PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > First, I am not a Latex user. But decided to try your demo > file on an F17 system where I installed using yum... I "think" it > is OK? > > [egreshko@f17x ~]$ latex demo.tex [...] I think the OP expected it to work w

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/12/13 08:09, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 04/12/2013 01:12 AM, Mike Williams wrote: > > > >> The texlive that comes with fedora 17 is texlive 2007, the version from the >> tug link is texlive 2013. On my system I used yum to remove texlive, then >> downloaded the .iso from tug, mounted the iso

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:09:42PM +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: > >! Package hypdestopt Error: This package requires pdfTeX in PDF mode. > > > >See the hypdestopt package documentation for explanation. > >Type H for immediate help. > > ... > > > >l.55 }\@ehc > But powerdot is incompatible with pd

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Thomas Waldecker
Hi, I installed texlive from the install.sh script. It worked after installing some perl modules which are easily to discover. The texlive package manager worked better for me than the fedora repositories. Especially if you are going to use xelatex which I recommend. Thomas 2013/4/12 Rolf Turn

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Rolf Turner
On 04/12/2013 01:12 AM, Mike Williams wrote: The texlive that comes with fedora 17 is texlive 2007, the version from the tug link is texlive 2013. On my system I used yum to remove texlive, then downloaded the .iso from tug, mounted the iso, installed from that and it works fine. OK. I h

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:31:17PM +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: > > I'm not completely sure if I installed texlive using yum, or if texlive came > with the initial install of Fedora 17. My vague recollection is that there > was > a latex facility that came with Fedora 17 but it was incomplete, and t

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread George Avrunin
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:46:15 +0300, Susi Lehtola wrote: > Don't install stuff manually when things have already been packages. > Fedora 18 features a complete TeXLive 2012 distribution; you can also > get it on Fedora 17 by Except that I think Fedora installs the versions from the TeX Live s

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Susi Lehtola
Quoting Rolf Turner : Under Fedora 17 I recently had problems with running latex on a file that previously (under Ubuntu) I had no difficulty with. (A while back I had to switch from Ubuntu to Fedora for reasons that I won't go into here.) I thought that perhaps I might be able to get rid of

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:03:23 +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: > > Under Fedora 17 I recently had problems with running latex on a file that > previously (under Ubuntu) I had no difficulty with. (A while back I had to > switch from Ubuntu to Fedora for reasons that I won't go into here.) > > I thought

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Mike Williams
> > On 04/11/2013 09:20 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 04/11/13 17:03, Rolf Turner wrote: >> >>> Under Fedora 17 I recently had problems with running latex on a file that >>> previously (under Ubuntu) I had no difficulty with. (A while back I had >>> to >>> switch from Ubuntu to Fedora for reasons

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Rolf Turner
I'm not completely sure if I installed texlive using yum, or if texlive came with the initial install of Fedora 17. My vague recollection is that there was a latex facility that came with Fedora 17 but it was incomplete, and that I did indeed do "yum install texlive" to fix things up. Now whe

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/11/13 17:03, Rolf Turner wrote: > > Under Fedora 17 I recently had problems with running latex on a file that > previously (under Ubuntu) I had no difficulty with. (A while back I had to > switch from Ubuntu to Fedora for reasons that I won't go into here.) > > I thought that perhaps I might

Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Rolf Turner
Under Fedora 17 I recently had problems with running latex on a file that previously (under Ubuntu) I had no difficulty with. (A while back I had to switch from Ubuntu to Fedora for reasons that I won't go into here.) I thought that perhaps I might be able to get rid of the flakiness by re-inst