Package: whizzytex Version: 1.3.1-3 Severity: wishlist What the user gets out of the box by installing whizzytex is not (necessarily) working, because whizzytex default configuration relies on advi which is not necessarily installed.
While it is totally reasonable not to require advi as a dependency for whizzytex (as it is not so), as a user I expect the default whizzytex configuration to work with what is installed for sure with whizzytex, namely: xdvi. Can you please consider one of the two options: - use xdvi by default no matter what - have a configuration which *prefers* advi if it is installed over xdvi, but that falls back to it if it is not the case FWIW, README.Debian currently says to "consult the manual on how to change the viewer". Given how messy is the whizzytex configuration (3 blocks to be configured, 3 configuration files in multiple location, ...) I think more help is needed in README.Debian. Can you please add there a line on how to change default viewers? Many thanks for maintaining whizzytex!, Cheers. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages whizzytex depends on: ii advi 1.6.0-13+b2 an active DVI previewer and presen ii emacs-snapshot [emacsen] 1:20090423-1 The GNU Emacs editor (development ii emacs-snapshot-nox [emacse 1:20090423-1 The GNU Emacs editor (without X su ii gv 1:3.6.7-1 PostScript and PDF viewer for X ii texlive-latex-base 2007.dfsg.2-3 TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages whizzytex recommends no packages. whizzytex suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
