Bug#754529: typo in impnattypo

2014-07-21 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Norbert Preining wrote: > it seems that there is a nasty problem with encoding in > impnattypo.xml > in the TeX Catalogue. It is rendered as > Fran§aise ... weird. the mangled characters were there in the xml file, not merely being sloppily translated. i've updated the xml fi

Bug#750057: [tex-live] Serious (?) problem with Babel and language attributes

2014-06-01 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Manfred Lotz wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 10:28:34 +0100 > Robin Fairbairns wrote: > > > Norbert Preining wrote: > > > > > I got a bug report here at Debian, but it is the same in the > > > current TL2014 status. It seems that something with the &g

Bug#750057: [tex-live] Serious (?) problem with Babel and language attributes

2014-06-01 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Norbert Preining wrote: > I got a bug report here at Debian, but it is the same in the > current TL2014 status. It seems that something with the > language attributes is up-side-down: > > The report states that > \today > prints the wrong month for June in Russian. It should be > "ию

Bug#703212: [tex-k] dvips segfault

2013-03-17 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Norbert Preining wrote: > at Debian we got a bug report about segfaulting dvips when reading > and writing to itself .. (yes I know it is not very intelligent, > but still segfaulting is not optimal): >[...]> [1887007337Segmentation fault > > This is with current TeX Live 2012 (but the same in o

Bug#647433: [l2h] New release of latex2html?

2012-11-23 Thread Robin Fairbairns
at situation, i generally tend not to (after agonising about it for a while) on the grounds that i don't want to waste any _more_ time. sorry you've been inconvenienced. i hope you understand our situation. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#647433: [l2h] New release of latex2html?

2012-11-22 Thread Robin Fairbairns
tex2html, so i can't claim to know whether this is a reasonable. roughly speaking, with abandonware like l2h, we merely go by the licence. gpl implies (to us) that anyone can hack out a bug and re-release. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-di

Bug#674185: [texdoc] texdoc and cweb manual

2012-05-25 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Robin Fairbairns wrote: > > > [...] > > > 3 /home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/doc/plain/cweb/cwebman.dvi > > > > Hum, really? ;-) > > if i wasn't otherwise engaged (dancing in small circles around the > catalogue) i would redo that as a pdf. y

Bug#674185: [texdoc] texdoc and cweb manual

2012-05-24 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote: > On 24/05/2012 00:48, Norbert Preining wrote: > > texdoc cannot find cweb manual: > > $ texdoc -l cweb > > 1 /home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/doc/latex/cweb-latex/cweb-user.pdf > >= User manual > > 2 /home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/doc/latex/cweb-latex/cweb-

Bug#635382: [tex-live] Bug#635382: new release of latex-unicode

2012-04-19 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > By the way, the package is already called “ucs” in TeXLive. However, it > is called “unicode” in MiKTeX. And it is called “unicode” on CTAN, and > its directory on CTAN is also called “unicode”. i wonder what you consider is naming what, here? if you're assuming the ca

Bug#667805: [tex-live] la.sty and va.sty and non-free fonts

2012-04-09 Thread Robin Fairbairns
> down here we got a complain that the fonts for la.sty and va.sty > cannot be found. And indeed it seems that the la font has no > license statement at all, thus the font is not included in TL. > But we still ship la.sty and va.sty in teh fundus package. > > I am not sure, but I would say we sho

Bug#666791: [tex-live] Bug#666791: g-brief uses marvosym, but both defined \EMail

2012-04-02 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:10, Norbert Preining wrote: > > > >> I already wanted to upload the package to CTAN when I realized that > >> back then we had a problem with whether or not we are allowed to > >> distribute original PDF documentation. Martin Vogel replied to me >

Bug#467183: Long-standing bug in marvosym.sty

2011-10-13 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Hilmar Preusse wrote: > On 11.10.11 Robin Fairbairns (robin.fairbai...@cl.cam.ac.uk) wrote: > > tex live gets its marvosym from fonts/marvosym > > > > fwiw, i've moved the obsolete version out of the way; it will no longer > > be available from any "proper&

Bug#467183: Long-standing bug in marvosym.sty

2011-10-11 Thread Robin Fairbairns
t list it). tex live gets its marvosym from fonts/marvosym fwiw, i've moved the obsolete version out of the way; it will no longer be available from any "proper" mirror, at the old address, in a day or so. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#467183: Long-standing bug in marvosym.sty

2011-10-11 Thread Robin Fairbairns
the package was taken over, earlier this year, and re-done. the test program compiles correctly with tex live 11, under latex or pdflatex. why is it satisfactory to send out bug messages without testing whether the bug has been corrected? Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team -- To

Bug#571679: [tex-live] Bug#571679: moving ucs back to -recommended

2010-03-10 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mi, 10 Mär 2010, Philipp Stephani wrote: > > If you want Greek, Japanese or similar, you probably should not be > > using pdfTeX at all. > > Huuu? But? Plain TeX? unicode-based engines good, 8-bit engines (tex, pdftex,...) bad. you can bash 16-bit (or whateve

Bug#571679: [tex-live] Bug#571679: moving ucs back to -recommended

2010-03-10 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mi, 10 Mär 2010, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote: > > Well, ucs isn't required for utf8 input, \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} is > > enough. > > Well, I myself always use \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}, but without > knowing why. Probably I had problems at some point with

Bug#122635: Unclear documentation of rotating.sty

2010-01-26 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Hilmar Preusse wrote: > One of our users complained about rotating.sty not working. After > some investigation, it turned out that he hadn't realized the > necessity of running the DVI file through dvips in order to see > the effects. The following patch to rotating.dtx adds a paragraph > that

Bug#518800: [tex-live] lamsarrow.sty non-free?

2009-03-10 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Martin Schröder wrote: > 2009/3/10, Norbert Preining : > > Suggestions? > > Contact Spivak through http://www.mathpop.com and ask him to free > LamS-TeX. would he? the alternative is to claim that pb-diagram *only* works with the xy fonts. (those fonts have the advantage of being available i

Bug#425085: [tex-live] Bug#425085: texlive-doc-en: catalogue entries with dangling links

2007-06-20 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't look straightforward to fix - any ideas? > > We will probably reinstate the Catalogue in TL, and when we do, I guess > we should not just copy the files, but set up some kind of "conversion" > process. Ugh. the catalogue as you see it on ctan

Bug#426790: [tex-live] Bug#426790: Bug#426790: mathpple.map should be listed in updmap.cfg

2007-06-05 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to, but I don't have much time. And I'm still waiting for > input from Walter Schmidt. a lot of people are waiting for input from walter schmidt; i'm beginning to worry that he's seriously ill, or something. i know of a contract he agreed to un