On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >> Is this still Debian related?
>
> > bigl> think that any "censorship" should be used very careful.
> >
> > Especially when the previous posts were about the shortcomings of the
> > Debian LaTeX system and merits of a LaTeX distribution that is
> >> Is this still Debian related?
> bigl> think that any "censorship" should be used very careful.
>
> Especially when the previous posts were about the shortcomings of the
> Debian LaTeX system and merits of a LaTeX distribution that is a
> potential debian package. Such a debian package will
> "bigl" == bigl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bigl> On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Is this still Debian related?
>>
>> Erick
>>
bigl> As far as I read this list about 70-80% of messages are
bigl> "off-topic" but there is no sharp edge between normal unix
bigl> questions (o
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Is this still Debian related?
>
> Erick
>
As far as I read this list about 70-80% of messages are "off-topic" but
there is no sharp edge between normal unix questions (or specialy about one
package) and "Debian questions". I've found on this
Paul Seelig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Updating of the ls-lR database should only be allowed to root anyway and
: not to other users of the system as well! So i don't see the point in
: this!
The last time I used teTeX it was necessary to allow ordinary users to
re-build the database so new pk-
On 21 Sep 1996, Winfried Truemper wrote:
> And if several users try to update the ls-lR database, it gets (got) messed
> up resulting in a not-working TeX/LaTeX (we had that several times and
> therefore stucked with debian-TeX).
>
Updating of the ls-lR database should only be allowed to root anyw
>Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I'd prefer it to be included with Debian in any case
>
>I second that. I'm using tetex at my debian system without problems.
Does anyone know how teTeX compares with NTeX? NTeX is what I have
been using.
How easy would it be to debianize teTeX?
Paul Seelig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: hierarchie. To my mind teTeX is the most up to date and most easy to
: install and maintain LaTeX system because of it's well thought out design.
I did not look into the new 0.4-release, but there was no
upgrade-mechianism in the past.
And if several users
> I installed Debian for the first time two weeks ago and didn't even bother
> to install the Debian LaTeX system because i already knew teTeX from
> another platform and installed this instantly in the /usr/local/*
> hierarchie. To my mind teTeX is the most up to date and most easy to
> install an
Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd prefer it to be included with Debian in any case
I second that. I'm using tetex at my debian system without problems.
They are only some quirks with dependency conflicts if I install new
packages. But they will went away if the tetex package is
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Billy Chow wrote:
> teTeX is a high quality LaTeX distribution which takes care of these
> settings with a nice menu-driven utility. It would be easier to
> debianise teTeX than to fix the current Debian LaTeX system (other
>
I installed Debian for the first time two weeks a
> "Dirk" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Billy> (other than the inflexible configuration, some features like
Billy> previewing documents with ps fonts with xdvi are broken in
Billy> Debian).
Dirk> Not so. I am both LaTeX'ing and xdvi'ing with psfonts on Debian
Dirk> boxes wit
Billy> (other than the inflexible configuration, some features like
Billy> previewing documents with ps fonts with xdvi are broken in Debian).
Not so. I am both LaTeX'ing and xdvi'ing with psfonts on Debian boxes with no
problems.
You just have to add gsftopk, and modify MakeTeXPK (I send a
> "Dirk" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dirk> Correct. Also the app-defaults file for xdvi sets a4 paper and
Dirk> deskjet mode. We really need a script that sets these.
Dirk> Any takers?
teTeX is a high quality LaTeX distribution which takes care of these
settings with a n
Are you using ghostscript? I discovered a similar problem a few days ago:
I worked with gs-4.01-2 and all the offsets were correct as specified in
TeX, correct in DVI (xdvi) and PS (ghostview) and on the printer.
But I had to switch back to gs-2.62-2 because of the problem, that
characters get cu
> I installed Debian 1.1 and found that my tex files were no longer
> leaving a margin at the top of the page. I traced it to
> /usr/lib/texmf/dvips/config.ps where a4size was set instead of letter.
> I don't recall any questions from the installation of the dvipsk about
> the paper size.
dvips s
Nick> I installed Debian 1.1 and found that my tex files were no longer
Nick> leaving a margin at the top of the page. I traced it to
Nick> /usr/lib/texmf/dvips/config.ps where a4size was set instead of
Nick> letter.
Correct. Also the app-defaults file for xdvi sets a4 paper and deskj
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