On 2005-01-12 19:05:15 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Of course I tried on a Debian machine - I hope the bug you describe
> occurs on Debian, too.
On my Debian machines: With the example I provided, the slides are
printed correctly with latex + dvips (from the Debian distribution),
but are truncated with pdflatex. This should be explained by the
seminar.con file, that seems to work for Postscript only, as you
said:
> > \renewcommand{\printlandscape}{\special{landscape}}
> >
> > Can't pdflatex use that?
>
> No, I don't think so - this is probably a PostScript special.
[...]
> > Since the behavior with dvips seems to be due to seminar.con, I think
> > the bug should be reassigned to tetex-extra (possibly as wishlist).
>
> I don't see how copying seminar.con from /etc/texmf/latex/ to
> $HOMETEXMF could change the behavior of dvips?
Well, here's some additional information: In June, another LaTeX
distribution was installed at my lab on a NFS-mounted directory,
together with packages specific to my lab. And when I tried this
distribution, I noticed that my slides were truncated with latex +
dvips; after a discussion with the maintainer of this installation,
it appeared that this was due to the missing seminar.con file.
Adding this file to my $TEXINPUTS was sufficient for this site
distribution.
Note that my $TEXINPUTS is common to both distribution (Debian's
and the site distribution), and ends with ":" to include paths
defined in the distribution. But adding seminar.con to it didn't
change anything for Debian's distribution, since it was already
present in the paths for Debian's distribution.
I hope this is clearer now.
> > Well, for consistency with latex + dvips (and more flexibility), it
> > should be in seminar.con, and this file is Debian-specific.
>
> No, it isn't, it has been added by the upstream teTeX maintainer,
> Thomas Esser, and its contents are taken from sem-user.tex. Although
> Thomas added the file, the idea (of having it and of the contents)
> are from the seminar author, and he should correct them.
OK, so it is (or was) teTeX-specific (since the site distribution at
my lab had seminar.cls, but not seminar.con).
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