Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 21:07:52 +, michael wrote: [ snip: some initial misunderstandings ] > I want to be able to use .eps files. But when I run "latex" (which is a > symlink for pdflatex) it kaputs since it wants a .pdf/.png file. > > Thus my question is "is there a way I can have the 'ol

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 19:54 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 18:15:59 +, michael wrote: > > [...] > > > It was more that even running 'latex' the graphicsx won't accept eps > > files (whereas the older 'latex' (linked to etex on that box) does). > > Ta,M > > Do you spec

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 18:15:59 +, michael wrote: [...] > It was more that even running 'latex' the graphicsx won't accept eps > files (whereas the older 'latex' (linked to etex on that box) does). > Ta,M Do you specify the name of the eps file with or without the extension ".eps"? Newer ve

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 19:03 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:44:02 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +, michael wrote: > > > > > > All useful info but my main Q was how come one installation uses etex > > > and the other pdftex. And how be

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:44:02 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +, michael wrote: > > > > All useful info but my main Q was how come one installation uses etex > > and the other pdftex. And how best to 'standardize'? There may have been > > a question during inst

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:42:26PM +, michael wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:44 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +, michael wrote: > > > > > > All use

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:44 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +, michael wrote: > > > > All useful info but my main Q was how come one installation uses etex > > and the other pdftex. And how best to 'standardize'

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +, michael wrote: > > All useful info but my main Q was how come one installation uses etex > and the other pdftex. And how best to 'standardize'? There may have been > a question during installation about pdflat

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 11:12 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Stefan Schwarzer wrote: > >> I've two Debian boxes. One one (sarge) it appears that `latex` is really > >> `e-TeX` whereas on the other (unstable) it appears that `latex` is > >> really `pdfeTex`. It must have been like this for a while an

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Stefan Schwarzer wrote: >> I've two Debian boxes. One one (sarge) it appears that `latex` is really >> `e-TeX` whereas on the other (unstable) it appears that `latex` is >> really `pdfeTex`. It must have been like this for a while and I've not > >> appears that 'e_TeX' will read in .eps files but

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-10-31 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
> I've two Debian boxes. One one (sarge) it appears that `latex` is really > `e-TeX` whereas on the other (unstable) it appears that `latex` is > really `pdfeTex`. It must have been like this for a while and I've not > appears that 'e_TeX' will read in .eps files but 'pdfeTex' won't.. > tell me

flavours of LaTeX

2006-10-31 Thread michael
Sorry to ask what must be a common question, but I can't find the answer! I've two Debian boxes. One one (sarge) it appears that `latex` is really `e-TeX` whereas on the other (unstable) it appears that `latex` is really `pdfeTex`. It must have been like this for a while and I've not had any probl