Re: TeX: Solovay's checksum utility

2016-01-18 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 09:40:24PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello Tomas: > > On 18/01/16 20:27, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 04:16:53PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >> Hello Forum: > > > >> Is the Solovay's checksum utili

Re: TeX: Solovay's checksum utility

2016-01-18 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Tomas: On 18/01/16 20:27, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 04:16:53PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello Forum: > >> Is the Solovay's checksum utility (still) distributed within Debian ? >> Is there any alternative ? > > I didn't find one in the (Debian) TeX Live distro,

Re: TeX: Solovay's checksum utility

2016-01-18 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 04:16:53PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello Forum: > > Is the Solovay's checksum utility (still) distributed within Debian ? > Is there any alternative ? I didn't find one in the (Debian) TeX Live distro, although I must ad

Re: TeX: Corrupted NFSS tables

2010-12-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 13/12/10 18:01, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: On 2010-12-13 10:58, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, On 13/12/10 17:25, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: Hi I am getting mysterious errors with pdflatex: LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT4/cmr/m/n' undefined (Font) using `OT4/cmr/m/n'

Re: TeX: Corrupted NFSS tables

2010-12-13 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2010-12-13 10:58, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > On 13/12/10 17:25, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >> Hi >> >> I am getting mysterious errors with pdflatex: >> >>> LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT4/cmr/m/n' undefined >>> (Font) using `OT4/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 100. >

Re: TeX: Corrupted NFSS tables

2010-12-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 13/12/10 17:25, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: Hi I am getting mysterious errors with pdflatex: LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT4/cmr/m/n' undefined (Font) using `OT4/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 100. ! Corrupted NFSS tables. wr...@fontshape ...message {Corrupted

Re: [tex-live] windvi, gsftopk.exe problems with TeXLive2005

2006-06-18 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Thanks for your comments Fabrice. Perhaps there is a misunderstanding on my part. The latex version that I have installed is the one that is automatically installed by texlive, and I thought that was derived from xemtex. I did not specifically install xemtex. There is nothing in the documentaion o

Re: tex broken (solved)

2006-04-08 Thread David Wainberg
You nailed it, Florian. Thanks I had messed up the environment variables when I was trying to add new cls files. However, the problem only showed up -- presumably -- after a reboot, or maybe after restarting X after an upgrade. Anyway, it was working immediately after I'd been messing with it, so

Re: tex broken

2006-04-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
David Wainberg wrote: Thank you for your response. Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The same version of pdfetex works fine for me. (Debian Sid, "tetex-bin" package version 3.0-16) Yes, I am using the same version. Did you try to specify the full path explicitly, starting from

Re: tex broken

2006-04-06 Thread David Wainberg
Thank you for your response. Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The same version of pdfetex works fine for me. (Debian Sid, "tetex-bin" > package version 3.0-16) Yes, I am using the same version. > Did you try to specify the full path explicitly, > starting from root, e.g. "latex /ho

Re: tex broken

2006-04-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
David Wainberg wrote: I hope someone can help. Recently, I have been unable to compile tex/latex documents. When I try, [tex|latex] tells me it can't find the file I'm trying to compile: snip $ latex template.tex This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) en

Re: tex broken

2006-04-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
David Wainberg wrote: I hope someone can help. Recently, I have been unable to compile tex/latex documents. When I try, [tex|latex] tells me it can't find the file I'm trying to compile: snip $ latex template.tex This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) en

Re: TeX fax fonts

2004-11-04 Thread Ralph D. Ungermann
I had a similar problem: ! No declaration for shape OMS/pzccm/b/n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...e forspace shapespace [EMAIL PROTECTED] } [EMAIL PROTECTED] else #1{Fo... It was caused by a paragraph sign in a headline: \section*{\S 1 ...} (the symbol prin

Re: *tex: personal ls-R being owned by root

2003-02-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andreas J Guelzow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.21.0253 +0100]: > Since ls-R is likely created by /usr/bin/mktexlsr (which shouldn't be > setuid) and /usr/bin/mktexlsr is executed by cron as root from > /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin I would assume that something in your > configuration in

Re: *tex: personal ls-R being owned by root

2003-02-20 Thread Andreas J Guelzow
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.20.0028 +0100]: Something's clearly setuid root. Figure out what it is and file a bug for not dropping privileges appropriately. I searched all over / (find / -perm +4000) but could not find anything TeX related. I

Re: *tex: personal ls-R being owned by root

2003-02-20 Thread Jason McCarty
I believe the file /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin is your problem. If a variable is set to 0, it calls mktexlsr for each path in `kpsewhich --show-path=ls-R`, which on my machine expands to /home/jason/texmf:/usr/local/share/texmf:/usr/local/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/var/cache/fonts. Although, the

Re: *tex: personal ls-R being owned by root

2003-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.20.0028 +0100]: > Something's clearly setuid root. Figure out what it is and file a bug > for not dropping privileges appropriately. I searched all over / (find / -perm +4000) but could not find anything TeX related. I have attached the list of

Re: *tex: personal ls-R being owned by root

2003-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 07:44:20PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > What disturbs me is that > > fishbowl:~> ls -l ~/etc/texmf/ls-R > -rw---1 root root 1147 2003-02-09 23:25 ls-R > > it is owned by root:root. What the heck? What's root doing in my > homedirectory? root should h

Re: TeX fonts

2003-01-05 Thread Oki DZ
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:13:38PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > What's the error message you're getting? CM, being the TeX standard > font, really should Just Work... No message. CM works fine. > Has absolutely nothing at all to do with TeX, PostScript, or > displaying things in gv. The proble

Re: TeX fonts

2003-01-05 Thread David Z Maze
Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I converted a .dvi file into a .ps one. The converter (dvips) couldn't > find the font (Computer Modern) for the .ps file, so the font displayed > wrongly in gv. What's the error message you're getting? CM, being the TeX standard font, really should Just Work.

Re: Tex to PDF conversion trouble (pdflatex)

2002-09-30 Thread Alan Shutko
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just as a note, I recommend tex2pdf instead of pdflatex. I don't > think there is a .deb for it, but it handles graphic files much > better, converting encapsulated postscript to encapsulated PDF, and > also generates nice bookmarks and links and stuff. Al

Re: Tex to PDF conversion trouble (pdflatex)

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Cook
David P James wrote: > > Alan Shutko was roused into action on 09/27/02 23:12 and wrote: > > David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>In case this matters, tetex-bin and tetex-base are installed. > > > > > > Install tetex-extra, I think. > > > > Yep, that seems to have done the tric

Re: Tex to PDF conversion trouble (pdflatex)

2002-09-28 Thread David P James
Alan Shutko was roused into action on 09/27/02 23:12 and wrote: > David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>In case this matters, tetex-bin and tetex-base are installed. > > > Install tetex-extra, I think. > Yep, that seems to have done the trick, sort of. Lyx is still not converting

Re: Tex to PDF conversion trouble (pdflatex)

2002-09-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 23:12:37 -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In case this matters, tetex-bin and tetex-base are installed. > > Install tetex-extra, I think. Yes. See #143751, "tetex-bin: PDF generation broken when tetex-extra isn't installed". Ray -

Re: Tex to PDF conversion trouble (pdflatex)

2002-09-27 Thread Alan Shutko
David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In case this matters, tetex-bin and tetex-base are installed. Install tetex-extra, I think. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! "Yeeaahh, I'm def-in-ate-ly an excellent Super Hero...-Sewer Urchin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: tex: garamond fonts

2002-02-12 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ionut Georgescu) writes: > I have seen there are some garamond fonts under > /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/cg/garamond These are only TeX Font Metric (hence tfm) files for commercial fonts, which you have to purchase first before being able to use them. Real font files for TeX ar

Re: TeX printing problem

2001-09-24 Thread Paul Huygen
Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have apsfilter installed. I still get the same results [printer > prints postscript code], trying both > [ $ lpr quantum.dvi > and > [ $ dvips -f quantum |lpr ] I would think that, if Ghostscript was broken, the printer would either produce ghostscri

Re: TeX printing problem

2001-09-24 Thread Dale Morris
> > After my recent install and upgrade to woody I can't print tex > > documents. Other printing seems okay, mail messages from mutt print > > fine. > > > > xdvi displays the document properly, but when I try to print the > > following file: > > > > $dvips quantum.tex typo-- I meant $dvips quantum.

Re: TeX printing problem

2001-09-24 Thread Paul Huygen
Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > After my recent install and upgrade to woody I can't print tex > documents. Other printing seems okay, mail messages from mutt print > fine. > > xdvi displays the document properly, but when I try to print the > following file: > > $dvips quantum.tex > > th

Re: TeX printing problem

2001-09-24 Thread Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.
Yup. that's the right output. The dvips is used to create ps from dvi file. You need to use -o option for dvips to create a ps file and then you can use gv to view the ps file. Check out man dvips. -- bpdp On Monday 24 September 2001 1:34 pm, Dale Morris wrote: > After my recent install and up

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-26 Thread David Z. Maze
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CF> You *really* can't do LaTeX without the real book "LaTeX, A CF> document preparation system" by Lamport. At least that has been my CF> experience in twenty odd years of TeXing. And if you're into very CF> arcane type setting you can't do without "The

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:06:09PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:17:16PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: ... > > (I found this documented, if sparingly, in the LaTeX Companion, by > > Goossens, Mittelbach, and Samarin; ISBN 0-201-54199-8, section 11.9.1.) > > That seems to

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:17:16PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > There are a number of postscript fonts provided with dvips that you can use > in TeX. As you have discovered, though, finding them is the trick. > Check out psfonts.map, from the tetex-base package. In potato, at least, > there are

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-25 Thread Kalle Hasselström
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:46:54PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > dvips sends its output directly to the printer by default and I haven't > gotten around to determining how to change that yet, so I've been viewing > it as rendered by an HP LaserJet (IIRC) 5000. > From the dvips manpage: -o

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Alan Shutko got most of your questions in a separate mail; there are just a couple of loose endings. Lo, on Tuesday, July 24, Dave Sherohman did write: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:17:16PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > Hm. When you say that cmr17 looks almost as bad as cmr10, what exactly do >

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-24 Thread Alan Shutko
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > cmr10 and cmr17 both come out looking like bitmapped fonts (gee, I wonder > why...) which have been blown up without decent antialiasing - the closure > at the top of "o" is so thin it practically isn't there, the sides > (particularly the left side) of

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:17:16PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Yeah, this gets confusing. TeX just needs the .tfm file, which basically > tells it how tall and how wide each letter is, as well as how far below the > baseline it extends. There's also some ligature and kerning info (how TeX > tur

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-24 Thread Alan Shutko
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This error message may have given me the thought to try cmr17 instead > of CMR17, which does work (although it looks almost as bad as cmr10), > but it still doesn't provide any hints towards finding out what fonts > are available (and usable) on my syst

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, July 24, Dave Sherohman did write: > I've finally gotten around to learning some TeX and I'm having a terrible > time with fonts: > > First I looked at the Gentle Guide's list of 'normally available' > fonts and grabbed the biggest Roman I could find, only to be told > "! Font \sf

Re: TeX/LaTeX: How do you configure it? How do you get it "rolling"?

2001-05-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:11:47AM +, Usuario Universo Online wrote: > I've downloaded all the packages for minimum Tex/LaTeX installation > under Debian. However, my tetex-bin package is still broken (it's "C**" > in dselect), but there's no "conflict" or abything. It seems it's a > m

Re: TeX/LaTeX: How do you configure it? How do you get it "rolling"?

2001-05-13 Thread freedman
On Mon, May 14, 2001, Usuario Universo Online wrote: > Hello- > > I've downloaded all the packages for minimum Tex/LaTeX installation > under Debian. However, my tetex-bin package is still broken (it's "C**" > in dselect), but there's no "conflict" or abything. It seems it's a > matter of

Re: Tex/Latex problem

2000-10-19 Thread Sergey Suleimanov
> "USM" == USM Bish writes: USM> [The above lines have been captured using script]. USM> Interesting eh ? look at line 503 of /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx -- Sergey Suleimanov

Re: Tex/Latex problem

2000-10-19 Thread USM Bish
I have exactly the same problem. This is the error I get for output: "This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) I can't find the format file `tex.fmt'! " The problem is texconfig is not being able to generate the .fmt files necessary (even when run in the batch mode). The first occurance of er

Re: Tex/Latex problem

2000-10-19 Thread T. Manegold
hormoz rebati wrote: > I have ported TeX/Latex onto my machine HP UX 10.20 > But everytime I use tex/latex I get:- > "I Can't find the format file 'tex.fmt'/'latex.fmt' > > What is wrong. Can someone help please? > > Thanks in advance > Hormoz Rebati > Hi! Did you run initex? I assume you ported

Re: Tex/Latex problem

2000-10-19 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: The format files should be in the texmf/web2c subdirectory. Have you run texconfig? I did sometimes get this problem running latex2e files, and I was able to get around this by: 1. creating a link of tex in /usr/bin to a file called latex2e and 2. in texmf/webc copying latex.fmt to late

Re: TEX: tex.fmt, latex.fmt, jadetex.fmt missing.

2000-03-26 Thread Brendan J Simon
I got it working. I just addedd the following to my /etc/apt/sources.list and did an "apt-get upgrade" deb http://www.au.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free Brendan Simon. I'm not sure, but perhaps run fmtutil? Just a shot in the dark. Marshal > "Brendan" == Brendan J Simon <

Re: TEX: tex.fmt, latex.fmt, jadetex.fmt missing.

2000-03-23 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
I'm not sure, but perhaps run fmtutil? Just a shot in the dark. Marshal > "Brendan" == Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having the familiar *.fmt files missing when trying to use > tex. The mail archives suggest that the solution is to install > tex from the pr

Re: Tex permissions?

2000-02-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I got problems runing xdvi and similar as user. For the moment I > found giving write permission to all in /var/spool/texmf makes > everthing work, but this does not quite, uhm, feel right? Try to do this with the `texconfig' utility (as root) -- i

Re: TeX and PDF

2000-01-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > |> i want to turn this into a pdf so i can get hard copy and stick it > |> on my wall. i can get hard copy (and stick it on a wall :) myself, > |> the problem is turning it into a pdf. > > The standard tetex distribution includes pdftex. Simply run

Re: TeX question

2000-01-12 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Vincent Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > there's a file that comes with emacs called viperCard.tex (in > /usr/share/emacs/../etc/). it's a reference card for emacs viper-mode. > i want to turn this into a pdf so i can get hard copy and stick it on my > wall. i can get hard copy (and sti

Re: TeX and PDF

2000-01-12 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> i want to turn this into a pdf so i can get hard copy and stick it |> on my wall. i can get hard copy (and stick it on a wall :) myself, |> the problem is turning it into a pdf. The standard tetex distribution includes pdftex. Simply running: pdftex foo on the file `foo.tex' should pr

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

2000-01-12 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 16:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Pann proposed, > > > Believe it or not, this is a date (not Y2K) related problem. Install the > > newer tetex package(s) from proposed-updates. > > We have a winner :) Wow. > > Do you happen to know how they got a non-y2k date bug in? I

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

2000-01-11 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I don't think I've ever seen this before. Having replaced the dying >hard disk, I've done a clean install of slink. The ability to use >latex seems to come and go (mostly go), and I've given the tetex files >a purge/reinstall cycle, but still no l

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

2000-01-11 Thread hawk
Pann proposed, > Believe it or not, this is a date (not Y2K) related problem. Install the > newer tetex package(s) from proposed-updates. We have a winner :) Wow. Do you happen to know how they got a non-y2k date bug in? I wasn't expecting to worry about those for another 30 years :) Or was

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

2000-01-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] > Well, I can't help with how to generate it but on my potato system: > > % locate latex.fmt > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt > > It is not associated with a package, ie., dpkg -S latex.fmt doesn't > show a package, so i

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

2000-01-11 Thread Bruce Sass
Maybe this will help... $ locate latex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt $ dpkg -S latex.fmt dpkg: *latex.fmt* not found $ grep latex.fmt /var/lib/dpkg/status $ grep latex.fmt /var/lib/dpkg/info/* /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postrm: rm -rf ... /var/lib/texm

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

2000-01-11 Thread Pann McCuaig
Believe it or not, this is a date (not Y2K) related problem. Install the newer tetex package(s) from proposed-updates. On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 13:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't think I've ever seen this before. Having replaced the dying > hard disk, I've done a clean install of slink.

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

2000-01-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Howard hollered, > > > > > hawkinsttyp0:ch_1.scarcity>latex scarcity.tex > > > This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) > > > I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! > > > I had a similar problem with jadetex in the past, when a similar file was > > not created u

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

2000-01-11 Thread hawk
Howard hollered, > > hawkinsttyp0:ch_1.scarcity>latex scarcity.tex > > This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) > > I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! > I had a similar problem with jadetex in the past, when a similar file was not > created upon installation of the .deb package. > It w

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

2000-01-11 Thread Howard Mann
> > I don't think I've ever seen this before. Having replaced the dying > hard disk, I've done a clean install of slink. The ability to use > latex seems to come and go (mostly go), and I've given the tetex files > a purge/reinstall cycle, but still no luck. > > The output is > > hawkinstt

Re: TeX, THANKS

2000-01-04 Thread G. Crimp
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 04:07:16PM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: > Go to an ftp archive and go into the proposed-updates for > slink. There was some sort of y2k problem with tex where > the make format or something to that effect failed. Anyway, the > updated package will work. In fact here is the

Re: TeX

2000-01-04 Thread Brian Lavender
Go to an ftp archive and go into the proposed-updates for slink. There was some sort of y2k problem with tex where the make format or something to that effect failed. Anyway, the updated package will work. In fact here is the url for the cdrom debian archive. ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian/

Re: Tex

1999-02-17 Thread Ted Harding
On 17-Feb-99 M.C. Vernon wrote: > >> Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? > > It is latex, tex, and a bunch of add-ons. They are _the_ way to typeset > documents. Combine this with a decent editor[1] and you'll produce > better documents than MSWord > > Matthew > >

Re: Tex

1999-02-17 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? It is latex, tex, and a bunch of add-ons. They are _the_ way to typeset documents. Combine this with a decent editor[1] and you'll produce better documents than MSWord Matthew [1]I could name one, but that might be flame-bait

RE: Tex

1999-02-17 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
David Webster wrote: Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? You don't sound stupid! It a package for word processing. The only thing stupid you can do is NOT to use TeX for your word processing. It is realy great! At school I had a teacher in computer science, who coul

Re: Tex

1999-02-17 Thread William Park
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 03:27:34PM -0600, David Webster wrote: > Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? teTeX is TeX/LaTeX distribution for Unix. TeX/LaTeX is computer typesetting software usually used for documents containing text, graphic, and math (a lot of math). T

Re: Tex

1999-02-16 Thread Mark Phillips
> Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? It provides "TeX" and "LaTeX". This allows you to do word processing with a difference. They are a bit like a programming language that allow you to program nice looking documents. You can think about "TeX" as a lower level lan

Re: Tex

1999-02-16 Thread ktb
I don't really know much about it but this should tell you all you need to know: http://www.freenix.org/unix/linux/HOWTO-vo/TeTeX-HOWTO-1.html Take care, Kent

Re: TEX mailing list

1998-05-18 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Could someone tell me the tex mailing list, please, >From the tetex README file: === mailing list: === The

Re: [tex] Re: babel and 8-bit files

1997-06-11 Thread Stefan Baums
Frederic Dumont wrote: > > On 11-Jun-97 Stephan Tassart wrote: > >But, when I run latex2e on a 8-bit file (with characters such as é, > >ö instead of \'e, \"o), I got nothing (for the 8-bit characters). Is > >it a misconfiguration from the Debian distribution or a problem which > >comes from inite

Re: TeX fonts

1997-03-30 Thread Ralf Comtesse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hallo Syrus, On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > I don't know, but I'm very happily using the new tetex packages from > unstable which seem to fix most of the previous problems with the tex > packages. I'm doing this on two machines that I upg

Re: TeX fonts

1997-03-30 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Ralf Comtesse wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hi, > > When I use some of the not so common fonts in a TeX document, MakeTeX* of > debian 1.2.7 cannot generate them automatically anymore. The *.tfm files > are present and I think all paths in texmf.conf are co

Re: tex font problems

1996-09-06 Thread Hakan Ardo
Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: > > \"{a}, \aa and so on does not show up in the .dvi file. Has anybody else > > moticed this? > > As far as I can tell, these are not LaTeX constructions, but TeX > constructions. > I made a silly .tex file with these lines: > > =begin junk.tex

Re: tex font problems

1996-09-06 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Thomas Schiex wrote: > > > On Thu, 05 Sep 1996 21:28:37 -0400, "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> said: > > Susan> Hi Hakan -- You said: > >> I am having trouble with the latex font, all non normal characters like > >> \"{a}, \aa and so on does not show up

Re: tex font problems

1996-09-06 Thread Thomas Schiex
> On Thu, 05 Sep 1996 21:28:37 -0400, "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: Susan> Hi Hakan -- You said: >> I am having trouble with the latex font, all non normal characters like >> \"{a}, \aa and so on does not show up in the .dvi file. Has anybody else >> moticed this? Sus

Re: tex font problems

1996-09-06 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Hakan -- You said: > I am having trouble with the latex font, all non normal characters like > \"{a}, \aa and so on does not show up in the .dvi file. Has anybody else > moticed this? As far as I can tell, these are not LaTeX constructions, but TeX constructions. I made a silly .tex file with

Re: Tex won't install

1996-08-13 Thread Erick Branderhorst
> The distribution is from the middle of July, an i-connect CD. The > problem stated by dpgk/dselect has something to do with texbin > installation postinst script not being able to find what its looking > for, I get an errormessage, and the remaining packages (latex, etc) > remain unconfigured I

Re: Tex and metafont

1996-05-23 Thread Erick Branderhorst
Dale Scheetz writes: > >I have been playing with lyx lately, so I thought it would be a good idea >to install latex (lyx uses it). Well latex needs tex which among other >things declares a dependance on metafont. I can find no metafont package. >I assume it is a virtual package? Which *real* packag

Re: Tex and metafont

1996-05-23 Thread Rob Browning
> "D" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: D> I have been playing with lyx lately, so I thought it would be a D> good idea to install latex (lyx uses it). Well latex needs tex D> which among other things declares a dependance on metafont. I can D> find no metafont package. I assume it