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back an forth over the last years. If needed, I can
search through git history, but in Debian it was a back an forth between
Unicode:Collate and the internal stuff, sometimes one failed/succeeded
and the other succeeded/failed, but it was rather random.
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n't think that pulling in cm-super is that big a problem
nowadays.
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1390/
Interesting reading, the sharp-s in cm-super is baaeehh, and indeed
the accents are also bad.
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thinking that using T1 fontenc might be rather common, so
pulling cm-super in by default into tl-fonts-recommended seems like
a reasonable thing to do.
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Hi all,
> Patrice, Gavin - I've been talking with my friend Norbert Preining, who
> used to be the Debian maintainer of the texlive packages. (He's also one
And also of the texinfo package ;-) And on the list!
> He's willing in principle to suggest that cm-super[-minim
On Sun, 16 Jan 2022, Gavin Smith wrote:
> I'm unsure who the "we" is you refer to - git users everywhere?
I guess everyone who uses a VCS, be it git, svn, cvs, p4, hg, ...
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r repository. I
> didn't test it thoroughly, I can just confirm that TeXInfo still works on
> glibc 2.33 with the patch in place.
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FYI.
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lization, by setting LANG (or LC_ALL) to a value other
than ‘C’, before you can use a language priority list
through the LANGUAGE variable.
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Hi
> Right, thanks. the two commands give:
Same here, 6.8 in a clean chroot build on Debian fails in the same test.
I disable it.
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r use kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL
or use $prefix/share/texmf, the later one being the one preferred by
distributions (I am also Debian responsible of TL and texinfo).
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MFLOCAL) install-tex
Any other directory might get purged, deleted, ignored, whatever by
distribution package managers (apt, dnf, ...). TEXMFLOCAL is normally
rather stable.
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der if that is a problem with perl itself. I get a similar message
Yes it is perl, and completely independent. And it is the correct thing
perl is doing. Very common to have if the locale (LC_* env vars) are set
up incorrectly.
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ch is not really acceptable.
I guess there is a bit more work to be done.
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Hi Gavin,
> That would be great. The change below would make the XS parser the
> default, and disabled by setting TEXINFO_XS_PARSER to 0.
Thanks for the patch. Included and uploaded to Debian. We will see how
it behaves across the architectures.
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lot of
tests.
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dd bare BAREREPO# BAREREPO could be gihub/savanaa/..
git config remote.bare.push 'refs/remotes/*:refs/heads/*'
git push bare
cd ..
rm -rf temp.checkout
git clone BAREREPO
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Masamichi Hosoda wrote:
> No, I update it manually.
I am doing this via cron scripts and Github deploy ssh keys which allows
me to ignore it completely ;-) Also, it helps with CI testing via
Travis-CI.
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Masamichi Hosoda wrote:
> Here is a git mirror I've converted.
> https://github.com/trueroad/texinfo
Ahh, great. Is that automatically/regularly updated?
Thanks a lot
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ation, but wherever you prefer.
The setup I am using is already prepared to mirror other svn repos, too,
via texlive.info server.
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e=, error=)
at session.c:221
#7 0x55ca2379ed14 in main (argc=, argv=) at
info.c:1079
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pearance.
> But it appears that copy-pasting out of a PDF does not work for
> most special characters. A bullet works, but an "ê" becomes "^e "
> and "△" becomes "4". :|
Yes, so it is, unless you use a unicode aware underlying engine (xetex,
luate
I have a good computer but use the normal info program regularly in contrast to
the Emacs info mode.
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> different folder then the one they were compiled for, so, mainly for safety
> reasons, I generally prefer to build everything from sources, with the actual
> `--prefix` set correctly during `configure`.
...
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to compile your own binaries is as I
wrote:
* compile them
* copy them into Master/bin/$ARCH/
* genereate a texlive.profile
* run install-tl -profile texlive.profile
That can all be automatized and done offline and without human
attendance.
But actually, this is not a question of texinfo
s that texinfo
switches to (probably) T1 encoding at some point.
But I never tracked down what is there real change.
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> No, they aren't. I updated the test results for this exact change (the
> final full stop), but neglected the "long tests".
Thanks for checking.
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nification suivante :
@@ -5502,7 +5502,7 @@
- Ce document a été généré a sunny
day en utilisant http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/";>texi2any
+ Ce document a été généré a sunny
day en utilisant http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/";>texi2any.
Are the tests up-to-date?
Norb
> + = ($ENV{SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH} ? gmtime($ENV{SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH}) :
> localtime(time);
Arggg ... ) where have you been lost?
End for today, too tired.
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return $self->gdt('{month} {day}, {year}',
{ 'month' => $self->gdt($MONTH_NAMES[$mon]),
Any idea why this might be the case?
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> Wait ... found something ...
Sorry for the noise ... the SDE patches I used and the changes you
made upstream overlapped - and although the patch could be applied
without fuzz (so I didn't see that it has change) I disturbed the
result.
Forget the request, sorry for the noise.
> Could you try editing the "expand_today" function in
Wait ... found something ...
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$year += ($year < 70) ? 2000 : 1900;
return $year;
}
my $foo = expand_today(42);
print "returned $foo\n";
did work without any problem. So maybe there is something protecting
$
.
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at
../../Pod-Simple-Texinfo/../tp/Texinfo/Common.pm line 1731.
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e-debug-statement
upstream-svn7031-texi2dvi-fix
upstream-svn7032-info-match-nocase
upstream-svn7041-fix-single-arg-macros
...
All of that did break some documents in Debian.
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ian.
The recent upgrade with the removal of some features created quite
some havoc in Debian with many packages suddently breaking, so
in the interest of the software developers, it might be good to
check beforehand.
All the best
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Sorry Gavin for the stupid email - one should not write emails before breakfast
and coffee.
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Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse my brevity.
can be *any* shell including dash (POSIX).
You cannot expect bash behaviour then.
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tag 822492 + pending
thanks
Dear Gavin,
> Thank you everybody, I've committed the fix now.
thanks!
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Dear Gavin,
Ted send a bug report with fixes for texi2dvi. Could you please comment
and maybe include for the next release?
Thanks
Norbert
On Sun, 24 Apr 2016, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> OK, I see what is going on. This is a bug in texi2dvi in the "local"
> build-mode. When you use --clean, this
irm.
Thanks a lot for your quick help, Gavin!
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le extracted from the sbcl sources that shows
the effect:
\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
@iftex
@macro cl{name}
{@smallertt@phantom{concurrency:}@llap{cl:}}\name\
@end macro
@end iftex
Some text
@tindex @cl{built-in-class}
foo bar baz
@printindex tp
@
oes away when the I use
@macro bbb{word}
\\aaa{\word\}
@end macro
(without the @tex ...@end tex)
Is this just an incorrect usage of macro definitions and @tex
in the original sources, that "just happened" to work till 6.0,
or is there something else behind?
Thanks
itionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments,
defuns, macros, cross references, insertions,
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex
This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.4 <14 February 2011>
) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input f
Thanks Gavin,
> Done in SVN revision 7041. Please email if there are further problems.
I have prepared a new version for Debian and asked the ess team
to see if that works out. We will surely come back if there
are any problems.
Thanks a big big many times for your great support!!!
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.atspaces }@scantokens {#1@texinfoc }
@aftermacro
l.9 @ESS{}
: bad
?
Can anyone comment on this?
Thanks a lot
Norbert
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> No, it was a mistake. Should be fixed now (once the commit finishes -
Thanks for the quick fix!
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to ARG (possibly stdout), but *also*
issues a funny hex number to stderr:
info --output - 2>
gives me e.g.:
$ cat
0x257b1b0
These hex numbers change with every invocation.
Is this intended?
Al
> >Did this ever work, and if so, which version of texinfo.tex and
> >texi2dvi?
Forget this - sorry for the noise - this was introduced recently
by Debian packaging.
Can be closed on the texinfo side.
Norbert
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avin Smith
wrote:
>On 21 February 2016 at 09:50, Norbert Preining
>wrote:
>> HI Gavin,
>>
>>> The problem is that @setfilename is missing from the file, and
>>> texi2dvi looks for that line to add the extra line. @setfilename was
>>> required before, so
Maybe better to add it *before* the @setfilename directive?
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ue, is
not set.} doc-snt}{}
@xrdef{0-title}{}
@xrdef{0-snt}{}
@xrdef{{[No value for ``cmd1'']}\message {Variable `cmd1', used in @value, is
not set.} doc-pg}{1}
@xrdef{0-pg}{1}
Thanks for consideration
Norbert
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On Sat, 20 Feb 2016, Gavin Smith wrote:
> "info --output -" outputs the dir node in the latest revision (svn
> revision 7022). However, the invocation of info is complex with
Thanks Gavin, I will check that commit out for the Debian pa
Hi Arnold, hi all
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> I've updated the various relevant bits and pieces and pushed to Github.
Thanks Arnold for the quick reaction and the changes, this is
very much appreciated!
NSE statement can be changed, too?
It still says::
The explanatory prose and text in texiwebjr.twjr are Copyright (C) 2013, 2014
by Arnold David Robbins. All rights reserved. Verbatim copying is
permitted but it may not be otherwise m
Hi Gavin,
> Thanks for passing this on, I've confirmed the bug. It should be fixed
> in revision 7021. The problem is not @setchapternewpage itself: it's
Thanks for your quick fix, I will test it out as soon as po
sequence found while scanning use of @setchapte
rnewpage.
@par
@bye
l.7 @bye
It seems @setchapternewpage parses to far and does not accept odd
as argument.
Thanks
Norbert
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in some shells, as they use
info --output -
to determine the possible nodes.
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rage//out_parser_info/formatting_utf8_enable_encoding/formatting_utf8.2
all done, exiting with status 1
FAIL test_scripts/coverage_formatting_utf8_enable_encoding.sh (exit status: 1)
All the best
Norbert
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> This was already fixed in the repository. If you want to fix that in
Ah, thanks. I will wait for the prerelease 91 ;-)
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Small and friendly text editor.
Emacs
: (auctex). A sophisticated TeX environment for Emacs.
-- end cut from screen
So it seems that something in the terminal setup is broken.
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t find anything
that jumped at me.
Anyway, I can just drop that for now. Thanks for suggesting the idea!
All the best, and I wish everyone some peaceful and relaxed days!
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GS="-g -O2
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security"
--with-external-Text-Unidecode=yes --with-external-libintl-perl=yes
--prefix=/usr --libexecdir='${prefix}/lib' --infodir='${prefix}/share/info'
--mandir='${prefix}/share/man'
might be the LANG setting, so I activated the
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 and redid the checks - with the effect that tests
in install-info started to fail with other translation errors.
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Norbert
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tests
to succeed? (I don't have any French locale generated)
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n
break, between *kanji* and *kana* one can break, but punctuation
and between *kana*s there are some special rules.
I don't know of any Perl module doing that, though.
Norbert
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> Chinese text isn't written with spaces between words, so makeinfo
> allows a break anywhere.
Which is completely correct.
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> Turned off in SVN revision 6715.
Thanks, that was a problem on Debian, too!
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still soem open things ... about searching etc, but I am
currently on holiday and have only restricted time so not much more
testing
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PATH.
That way one can:
* put files into subdirs
* links within the same suite work (emacs shipping lots of related info docs)
* links to external progs will use the default version by searching
in INFOPATH
I don't see disadvantages of this approach, but I am happy to
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, Gavin Smith wrote:
> enables typing "info Emacs", not "info emacs-24/emacs".
Indeed, that works.
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acs
node in the dir file (start plain info without args, then select
emacs-24/emacs).
What not works is doing
info emacs-24/emacs
on the command line
Let me know if I can test other things, and again thanks a lot!
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What about encoding sub-dirs in the dir file with'::' like:
* Emacs: (emacs-24::emacs). The extensible self-documenting text
editor.
Then one could do
info emacs-24::emacs
etc?
> Another idea is to make sure all the directories containing Info files
> are i
Hi everyone,
down here at Debian a certain inconvenience has arrived: Namely that
info cannot follow links to info files in sub-directories it seems:
In our case this is the emacs manual in the emacs-24 subdirectory:
/usr/share/info/emacs-24/emacs.info.gz
The respective dir entry looks li
ove two changes I could fix the building of
the octave texinfo manual.
(@ Octave maintainers: I will send patches (git format-patch) after
I have confirmed that everything is fine now)
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> I committed a fix.
Thanks Patrice!
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mple, but maybe the error message rings a bell at someone?
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[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
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coreutils package as far as I see
(bug 760861)
The wdiff bug is cloned and reassigned.
Thus, closing this bug here.
Thanks a lot and sorry for the noise.
All the best
Norbert
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Dear texinfo team,
down here at Debian we got a bug report concerning 5.2, but I can
confirm that the same happens with 5.9.92.
The mentioned case about coreutils is a bit particular, as there
are so many entries, but
info wdiff
also jumps into the Invocation instead of top of wdiff.
We
an.
> I confess I'm not much interested in researching requirements for old
Please don't waste your time.
> Anyway, what is this patch? Can we apply something so you don't have to?
No, you can ... GFDL .. :-
Norbert
d-aux/missing aclocal-1.15 -I gnulib/m4
/src/TeX/debian/git/texinfo/build-aux/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.15:
command not found
WARNING: 'aclocal-1.15' is missing on your system.
Yes, we don't have automake 1.15 by now.
Is thi
stable) and
2014, and they are the same wrt to ecrm fonts.
So the only idea I have is that dvipsPreferOutline has changed
from false to true, which is also false
So what remains is a mystery ...
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> So -p is more than just "preserve modification time"?!?
At least on my GNU tar ...
-p, --preserve-permissions, --same-permissions
extract information about file permissions (default for superuser)
;-)
> That's a new one on me.
One never sto
ibility.
Could you please let us know what you think?
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On Mo, 29 Jul 2013, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Thanks for the report, it should be fixed in svn now.
Thanks, yes, that is fine. I had included the very same patch
(without the added tests) already in the Debian packages.
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e
@bye
I get:
$ makeinfo --plaintext tt.texi
9. item starting at 9
10. item starting at 10 working now
$ makeinfo tt.texi
then the .info file contains:
...
File: texienum.info, Node: Top
9. item starting at 9
10. item starting at
On Do, 30 Mai 2013, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> texi2any --html --iftex --init latex2html.pm
Ahh, nice, thanks.
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On Mi, 29 Mai 2013, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Karl, hi all texinfo gurus,
>
> we had some discussion in Debian to replace texi2html with texinfo's
> makeinfo, but it turned out that makeinfo seems to be no replacement
> by now:
>
> On Di, 28 Mai 2013, Ryan Kavanagh w
of @math
> environments to images in HTML output. Please add similar functionality
> to texinfo.
Is this planned, is there any chance to get this working?
Thanks a lot
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eded by makeinfo from texinfo package.
THis one is actively maintained, in constrast to texi2html.
I would recommend droping texi2html from Debian.
(PS, I am the maintainer of texinfo in Debian ;-)
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> me. Whatever everyone will be satisfied with ...
;-) Agreed.
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t from the
> latest Emacs distribution before making a Texinfo release.)
But isn't that strange ... I mean texinfo ships the info reader,
shouldn't it also ship the info documentation?
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ode one can write.
Thinking about the problems we have with C++ code in other projects
(eg xetex) to get compiled on everything from old solaris to whatever,
I honestly prefer Perl.
But not that I have anything to say ;-)
Hi Segey,
On Mi, 13 Feb 2013, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > Sergey, if you have a chance to try to track it down
>
> Sure, I've fixed it.
Great, thanks.
Norbert
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Hi Karl, hi all,
we got a bug report concerning (g)info segfaulting in big terminals.
I can reproduce it here with 95 and 96.
I build .96 and run it under the debugger, and got the following
backtrace, the free segfault is in
(maybe_)free (window->log_line_no);
Program received signal S
> http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.96.tar.xz
Changelog says two times
4.13.95
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ake
make test
make install
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update of the man page?
Anyway, I have added help2man and all is fine. DOn't care anymore.
.93 is already in Debian/experimental
Thanks
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