* Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070228 16:36]: > Hi all! > > On Mit, 28 Feb 2007, Frank K?ster wrote: > > Depends: tetex-extra (>= 1.0) > > > > Unfortunately, this does not allow it to be used with texlive, which is > > newer than teTeX in etch, and which will be the only TeX system in lenny > > (teTeX has been abandoned upstream). > > > > It seems to me that > > > > Depends: tetex-extra | texlive-latex-base > > > > would be correct; however I am not sure whether ivritex requires any > > further functionality, maybe from texlive-latex-recommended. > > Furthermore, texlive needs to drop its Conflict on ivritex (Norbert, any > > idea why we have that?). > > Well I would suggest dropping ivritex or re-doing it completely. I was > preparing pseudo-nmu to be used with texlive, but found that the stuff > shipped in ivritex is much older (at least with respect to latex code) > then what is currently in texlive 2005, not to speak about texlive 2007. > But, as I have posted on the texlive and debian-tex-maint lists there is > a problem of the missing jerus10 fonts, and in general I have NO idea > what else in ivritex is not included in texlive 2005/7. > > So we have 2 options: > - update ivritex to be in sync, ie remove the diversions of hebrew.ldf > etc etc etc and ship only additional stuff > - let ivritex rest in peace.
There is nothing better to wish for than killing ivritex. If we can use Hebrew from the default TexLive distribution I'd be happy to kill IvriTex. I wouldn't worry about the jerus10 font and the others, they are ugly! A way to automatically ue culmus fonts would be much better. I'm not sure about the exact state of ivritex upstream, I know it advanced since I last looked but I'm not sure how it works with current babel. I understand that Tzafrir Cohen triedto contact the babel maintainer to update babel with the needed changes but got no response, if there is an alternative maintainer or TexLive maintain their own copy we'll be happy to merge any needed changes into babel. Baruch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
