Re: texlive

2023-01-11 Thread Patrick Dupre
        On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 5:51 AM Patrick Dupre <pdu...@gmx.com> wrote: Hello, texlive 2021 is considered as too old now by latex developers texlive 2022 will come with fc38 if I understand. Is there any option to be able to run texlive 2022 with fc36? Is pdflatex or one

Re: texlive

2023-01-11 Thread Neal Becker
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 5:51 AM Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > texlive 2021 is considered as too old now by latex developers > texlive 2022 will come with fc38 if I understand. > Is there any option to be able to run texlive 2022 with fc36? > Is pdflatex or one of the more

Re: texlive

2023-01-11 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, texlive 2021 is considered as too old now by latex developers texlive 2022 will come with fc38 if I understand. Is there any option to be able to run texlive 2022 with fc36? Thank === Patrick DUPRÉ

Re: texlive

2023-01-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2023-01-10 at 22:22 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > This is the feedback that I got from lyx maintainer about > the issue psline (previous message) You should post this as a reply to your previous message and keep threading intact so people don't have to search for it. poc _

texlive

2023-01-10 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, This is the feedback that I got from lyx maintainer about the issue psline (previous message) Your texlive is too old for lualatex and pstricks with directly created pdf without Ghostscript Herbert === Patrick

texlive-newtx math fonts cannot be used

2020-10-08 Thread Enrique Artal
Dear members of the list, I filed a bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1832320) about some problems using a specific package of tex, namely newtxmath.sty. I use it only in few documents, and I do not know if it is the case for most Fedora-LaTeX users. The bug is confirmed by other

Re: [F29] Command dvipdfmx (texlive) does not work

2018-12-11 Thread Marco Guazzone
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 8:00 PM Jon Ingason wrote: > > You need to install texlive-xetex-7:20180414-28.fc29.x86_64 which > provide /usr/bin/xdvipdfmx. > > -- > Regards > > Jon Ingason > Hi Jon, Thank you very much. It works. I'll add your suggestion in the

Re: [F29] Command dvipdfmx (texlive) does not work

2018-12-11 Thread Jon Ingason
Den 2018-12-11 kl. 18:43, skrev Marco Guazzone: > Hi, > > On my Fedora 29, the command dvipdfmx does not work: > > $ rpm -q texlive-dvipdfmx > texlive-dvipdfmx-20180414-28.fc29.x86_64 > $ dvipdfmx > bash: dvipdfmx: command not found > > Indeed, the executable

[F29] Command dvipdfmx (texlive) does not work

2018-12-11 Thread Marco Guazzone
Hi, On my Fedora 29, the command dvipdfmx does not work: $ rpm -q texlive-dvipdfmx texlive-dvipdfmx-20180414-28.fc29.x86_64 $ dvipdfmx bash: dvipdfmx: command not found Indeed, the executable file '/usr/bin/dvipdfmx' is a broken link that points to a nonexistent file: $ ls -a

Re: fonts in texlive

2018-01-17 Thread Aradenatorix Veckhôm Avecælus
Hi Patrick: Sometimees you need to make a texhash on the terminal for update your texlive distribution. I suspect you are using pdflatex and maybe that's why you have to install that font in packages. If the compiler you use is xelatex or lualatex you can use your truetype and opentype fonts

Re: fonts in texlive

2018-01-17 Thread Patrick Dupre
Thank Carlos, It is fixed, However, dnf whatprovides bbold10.pfb Last metadata expiration check: 3:02:28 ago on Wed 17 Jan 2018 12:36:59 PM CET. Error: No Matches found dnf repoquery -l texlive-bbold.noarch | grep bbold10.pfb Last metadata expiration check: 3:02:51 ago on Wed 17 Jan 2018 12:36

Re: fonts in texlive

2018-01-17 Thread Carlos "casep" Sepulveda
On 17 January 2018 at 12:29, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I installed: > texlive-bbold > > but the font are not installed: > Salut Patrick, The file you need is included in a different package [casep@X1Carbon ~]$ sudo dnf repoquery -l texlive-bbold.noarch | gre

Re: fonts in texlive

2018-01-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/17/18 20:29, Patrick Dupre wrote: > !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file bbold10.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for > re > ading I know nothing about textlive but doing a "dnf whatprovides" I see texlive-bbold-type1-6:svn33143.0-36.fc27.5.noarch : An Adobe Typ

fonts in texlive

2018-01-17 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I installed: texlive-bbold but the font are not installed: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016) (preloaded format=pdflatex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./newfile1.tex LaTeX2e <2016/03/31> Babel <3.9r> and hyphenation pa

Re: reporting on BZ for texlive-IEEEtran

2016-03-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
correspond to whatever source RPM originated the file in question. > > Since the Source RPM is texlive, then the plain old texlive name is the > one to use to report things. > > P.S. The only way to discover this is to report things in the wrong > category and get chewed o

Re: reporting on BZ for texlive-IEEEtran

2016-03-21 Thread Tom Horsley
; rpm -q -i -f /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/IEEEtran Name : texlive-base Epoch : 4 Version : 2014 Release : 19.20140525_r34255.fc23 Architecture: noarch Install Date: Mon 22 Feb 2016 07:21:37 AM EST Group : Applications/Publishing Size: 7737

reporting on BZ for texlive-IEEEtran

2016-03-21 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I wanted to report on Bugzilla that the IEEEtran style file was quite outdated and needed an update. However, it appears that on BZ there is no entry to list it under. The only choices I get there are: texlive-extension, texlive-texmf and texlive-texmf-errata and texlive itself. It is in

Re: texlive

2016-01-25 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 25 January 2016, Bernardo Sulzbach sent: > I think it really boils down to what is your conception of "text > processor". That keeps getting redefined, over the years. Early ones were little more than an electric typewriter on screen, sometimes called an article editor. S

Re: texlive

2016-01-25 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > At the risk of being pedantic, it doesn't contain a word processor. It > contains a document typesetting system. It has no user interface other > than your favourite text editor (although various GUI-like things have > been developed ar

Re: texlive

2016-01-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
rubber cement; I never touched a computer > till the early Eighties. My PhD thesis (1978) was written on a PDP-11/45 with 6th Edition Unix, using "em", formatted in Nroff and printed on a Diablo :-) Luckily for me, there were no formulae in it. >     For the record, I never

Re: texlive

2016-01-25 Thread Beartooth
puter till the early Eighties. For the record, I never called texlive a word-processor; what I did say was that it contained one. (That much was obvious just from skimming the list of routines that got updated by dnf.) When dnf listed all the things it would delete, I typed the ones

Re: texlive

2016-01-25 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 25.01.2016 um 16:50 schrieb Bernardo Sulzbach: On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: when being forced by my customers to use Word. Would you mind sharing how common this was? The publishing house I had been working for usually does their typesetting with InDesign, a

Re: texlive

2016-01-25 Thread vendor
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: when being forced by my customers to use Word. Would you mind sharing how common this was? It's very common in the Pathology community. I wrote two book chapters and published abo

Re: texlive

2016-01-25 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > when being forced by my > customers to use Word. Would you mind sharing how common this was? -- Bernardo Sulzbach -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedo

Re: texlive

2016-01-25 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Am 25.01.2016 um 16:21 schrieb Bernardo Sulzbach: Just an addition to George's impressive answer: I only tried Word equations on 2013 (the version) and it was painfully bad, sometimes blocking the program for as much as two or three seconds when I was entering a complex fraction. However, maybe

Re: texlive

2016-01-25 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
Just an addition to George's impressive answer: I only tried Word equations on 2013 (the version) and it was painfully bad, sometimes blocking the program for as much as two or three seconds when I was entering a complex fraction. However, maybe it was just a bad installation or something that got

Re: texlive

2016-01-25 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 13:52 +1030, Tim wrote: > > Just for curiosity's sake, is academias prolific use of it because > > its > > ingrained into them, or does it really outclass the alternatives? > > > > I know that in general use, I fi

Re: texlive

2016-01-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 11:25 -0200, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: > Let's also remind the average Word user that setting up a working > copy > of LaTeX and learning even the basics of the syntax - and what you > shouldn't do - takes a few extra hours when compared to learning a > What You See Is What You

Re: texlive

2016-01-25 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
Let's also remind the average Word user that setting up a working copy of LaTeX and learning even the basics of the syntax - and what you shouldn't do - takes a few extra hours when compared to learning a What You See Is What You Get like Word. In defense of Word and Writer (LibreOffice), most pub

Re: texlive

2016-01-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 13:52 +1030, Tim wrote: > Just for curiosity's sake, is academias prolific use of it because > its > ingrained into them, or does it really outclass the alternatives? > > I know that in general use, I find Word horrendous.  But I've never > tried formulae in it, etc., nor use

Re: texlive

2016-01-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 22:23 -0200, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > since probably 99% of researchers in those fields write their > > papers in TeX or its cousin LaTeX. > > Not only this kind of message annoys statistically inclined > i

Re: texlive

2016-01-24 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:52:05 +1030 Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 25 January 2016, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > > It's the main Linux implementation of TeX. If that doesn't ring a bell > > then clearly you've not had a lot of contact with academic publishing, > > especially in Maths, Physics

Re: texlive

2016-01-24 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 25 January 2016, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > It's the main Linux implementation of TeX. If that doesn't ring a bell > then clearly you've not had a lot of contact with academic publishing, > especially in Maths, Physics or CS, since probably 99% of researchers > in those fiel

Re: texlive

2016-01-24 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > FWIW, I think that if you read Patrick's complete statement, he is not > terribly inaccurate: he cites Math, Physics, CS -- to that I would add > statistics and computational methods/OR. If you look at some of the > professional societi

Re: texlive

2016-01-24 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 22:23:47 -0200 Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > since probably 99% of researchers in those fields write their papers in TeX > > or its cousin LaTeX. > > Not only this kind of message annoys statistically inclined

Re: texlive

2016-01-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 22:23 -0200, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > since probably 99% of researchers in those fields write their > > papers in TeX or its cousin LaTeX. > > Not only this kind of message annoys statistically inclined > i

Re: texlive

2016-01-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/24/2016 12:37 PM, Beartooth wrote: Is there some reason I don't see to keep this enormous app, or would I be better off just telling dnf to remove it?? Try removing it with --assumeno to see what else would go away with it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: texlive

2016-01-24 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > since probably 99% of researchers in those fields write their papers in TeX > or its cousin LaTeX. Not only this kind of message annoys statistically inclined individuals, it is wrong by, let me say it, an order of magnitude. I don'

Re: texlive

2016-01-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 21:45 +, Beartooth wrote: > But I have no idea what it does, except that it seems to contain a > word processor. So I have no way to guess what other software (if > any) might call it. It's the main Linux implementation of TeX. If that doesn't ring a bell then clearly you

Re: texlive

2016-01-24 Thread jd1008
used texlive at all. But I have no idea what it does, except that it seems to contain a word processor. So I have no way to guess what other software (if any) might call it. Just sudo dnf erase texlive\-* and see what it offers to take out with it. If you can live without those, then

Re: texlive

2016-01-24 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 21:45:36 + Beartooth wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:39:09 -0200, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: > > > Do you even use tex? Can you imagine one program that you make use of > > using it? > > As I said originally, afaik, I have never used texlive

Re: texlive

2016-01-24 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:39:09 -0200, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: > Do you even use tex? Can you imagine one program that you make use of > using it? As I said originally, afaik, I have never used texlive at all. But I have no idea what it does, except that it seems to cont

Re: texlive

2016-01-24 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
Do you even use tex? Can you imagine one program that you make use of using it? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

texlive

2016-01-24 Thread Beartooth
I'm doing dnf upgrade on F23. Like many other times, it's updating some humongous number of items involving texlive; It must be a huge program. Afaik, I have never used texlive at all. Unless some other app calls it, I seem to be wasting a lot of space -- and maybe e

Re: texlive

2014-01-27 Thread Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus
Hello: My suggestion is that no matter which distro are using you, install TeXLive 2013 ( http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/133235/installing-tex-live-2013-on-linux) full or TeXLive 2014 (coming soon) from an iso image from the CTAN ( http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/Images

Re: texlive

2014-01-26 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 01:04:22 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > ! Package babel Error: Unknown option `french'. Either you misspelled it > (babel)                or the language definition file french.ldf was not > found > . > > Is it a lyx of a fedora issue? That question isn't interesting. More i

Re: texlive

2014-01-25 Thread Patrick Dupre
> - Original Message - > From: Ed Greshko > Sent: 01/26/14 12:49 AM > To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: texlive > > On 01/26/14 07:44, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> It looks like that in the fed

Re: texlive

2014-01-25 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/26/14 07:44, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> It looks like that in the fedora20, in the package texlive-babel >> the following file: >> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/babelbib/french.ldf >> has been replaced by: >> /usr/share/texli

Re: texlive

2014-01-25 Thread Patrick Dupre
> > Hello, > > It looks like that in the fedora20, in the package texlive-babel > the following file: > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/babelbib/french.ldf > has been replaced by: > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/babelbib/francais.ldf > > which

texlive

2014-01-25 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, It looks like that in the fedora20, in the package texlive-babel the following file: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/babelbib/french.ldf has been replaced by: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/babelbib/francais.ldf which becomes incompatible with lyx which only manages

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
On 04/12/2013 11:35 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: Hi Rolf, On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:43:50PM +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: I don't, didn't, never have, and never will use hypdestopt!!! Do you see any reference to hypdestopt in the "demo" code? I figured that it had to come from somewhere i

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17 --- Solved?

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
Sorry, I did not mean to send my previous message to the list, since Joe Zeff had asked to email him off-list. I just clicked on "Reply" thinking my message would just go to the sender. (I didn't click on "Reply List" or "Reply All".) And then I didn't notice that the To field was the list

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17 --- Solved?

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
On 04/13/2013 05:16 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/12/2013 03:32 AM, Rolf Turner wrote: I realized that I should have been doing ps2pdf demo.ps not ps2pdf demo and *that* was the source of the error that I was getting. Brain fart. Don't worry about it. Tish happens. If you want to

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17 --- Solved?

2013-04-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/12/2013 03:32 AM, Rolf Turner wrote: I realized that I should have been doing ps2pdf demo.ps not ps2pdf demo and *that* was the source of the error that I was getting. Brain fart. Don't worry about it. Tish happens. If you want to know about one that had me going round i

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
l latex. Look at the available packages in the main website. NOTE: some packages (beamer, pgf, hyperref) and others are currently unavailable for kerTeX, but can be added later via a package script. See Packages section in {1}. {1} http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html Also, you can have te

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 21:37 +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: > So I need somehow to get an installation of texlive where "latex" really > means > ***latex*** and not "pdftex". How the hell do I arrange that? > I'm a bit late to this party, but Jindrich Novy

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Rolf, On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:43:50PM +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: > I don't, didn't, never have, and never will use hypdestopt!!! Do you > see any reference to hypdestopt in the "demo" code? > > I figured that it had to come from somewhere in the bowels of powerdot. > God know

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
ftex*. This seems to be simply what happens under texlive2012. [...] So I need somehow to get an installation of texlive where "latex" really means ***latex*** and not "pdftex". How the hell do I arrange that? This is intentional. All modern TeX distributions symlink latex,

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17 --- Solved?

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
Further to my previous message: Maybe I *am* a moron and not just an idiot studying hard to be one. I realized that I should have been doing ps2pdf demo.ps not ps2pdf demo and *that* was the source of the error that I was getting. So it all seems to be working now. I guess the pro

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
he latex command [...] > So it seems that I was inadvertently using *pdftex*. This seems to be > simply what happens under texlive2012. [...] > So I need somehow to get an installation of texlive where "latex" really > means > ***latex*** and not "pdftex". How the

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Rolf Turner
fTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012) restricted \write18 enabled." I then did "which latex" and got, as expected (since I'd made the appropriate modification to my PATH) /usr/local/texlive /2012/bin/x86_64-linux/latex. So I looked at /usr/local/texlive /2012/bi

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Ed, On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 02:46:52PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > First, I am not a Latex user. But decided to try your demo > file on an F17 system where I installed using yum... I "think" it > is OK? > > [egreshko@f17x ~]$ latex demo.tex [...] I think the OP expected it to work w

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/12/13 08:09, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 04/12/2013 01:12 AM, Mike Williams wrote: > > > >> The texlive that comes with fedora 17 is texlive 2007, the version from the >> tug link is texlive 2013. On my system I used yum to remove texlive, then >> downloaded

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:09:42PM +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: > >! Package hypdestopt Error: This package requires pdfTeX in PDF mode. > > > >See the hypdestopt package documentation for explanation. > >Type H for immediate help. > > ... > > > >l.55 }\@ehc > But powerdot is incompatible with pd

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Thomas Waldecker
Hi, I installed texlive from the install.sh script. It worked after installing some perl modules which are easily to discover. The texlive package manager worked better for me than the fedora repositories. Especially if you are going to use xelatex which I recommend. Thomas 2013/4/12 Rolf

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Rolf Turner
On 04/12/2013 01:12 AM, Mike Williams wrote: The texlive that comes with fedora 17 is texlive 2007, the version from the tug link is texlive 2013. On my system I used yum to remove texlive, then downloaded the .iso from tug, mounted the iso, installed from that and it works fine. OK. I

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:31:17PM +1200, Rolf Turner wrote: > > I'm not completely sure if I installed texlive using yum, or if texlive came > with the initial install of Fedora 17. My vague recollection is that there > was > a latex facility that came with Fedora 17 but it

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread George Avrunin
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:46:15 +0300, Susi Lehtola wrote: > Don't install stuff manually when things have already been packages. > Fedora 18 features a complete TeXLive 2012 distribution; you can also > get it on Fedora 17 by Except that I think Fedora installs the versions fro

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Susi Lehtola
id of the flakiness by re-installing texlive. I downloaded the install-tl-unx.tar.gz tarball from Don't install stuff manually when things have already been packages. Fedora 18 features a complete TeXLive 2012 distribution; you can also get it on Fedora 17 by # yum remove tex-* texli

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
.) > > I thought that perhaps I might be able to get rid of the flakiness > by re-installing texlive. > > I downloaded the install-tl-unx.tar.gz tarball from > > http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html > > unpacked, changed directories appropriately and executed >

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Mike Williams
to >>> switch from Ubuntu to Fedora for reasons that I won't go into here.) >>> >>> I thought that perhaps I might be able to get rid of the flakiness >>> by re-installing texlive. >>> >>> I downloaded the install-tl-unx.tar.gz tarbal

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Rolf Turner
I'm not completely sure if I installed texlive using yum, or if texlive came with the initial install of Fedora 17. My vague recollection is that there was a latex facility that came with Fedora 17 but it was incomplete, and that I did indeed do "yum install texlive" to fix

Re: Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Ed Greshko
thought that perhaps I might be able to get rid of the flakiness > by re-installing texlive. > > I downloaded the install-tl-unx.tar.gz tarball from > > http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html > > unpacked, changed directories appropriately and executed > > ./install.t

Installing texlive under Fedora 17.

2013-04-11 Thread Rolf Turner
by re-installing texlive. I downloaded the install-tl-unx.tar.gz tarball from http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html unpacked, changed directories appropriately and executed ./install.tl as per instructions. I got an error message: Can't locate Digest/MD5.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ./t

Re: texlive

2013-03-10 Thread Suvayu Ali
rt of TeX/LaTeX. That is a rather weird statement. ConTeXt is a macro package for TeX typesetting engines, so I would say LaTeX and ConTeXt are alternate solutions based on the same core and are both part of the collection of software often known as TeX and friends. It is also part of the TeXLive distr

Re: texlive

2013-03-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tethys wrote: > TeX under Fedora is frankly a joke these days :-( I don't know if > there's currently a maintainer. Certainly no one's responding to > critical bug reports. I use LaTeX and Metafont under Fedora-17 and Fedora-18 quite a lot, and have had no problems. > ConTeXt is literally unusab

Re: texlive

2013-03-08 Thread Suvayu Ali
CTAN, not the Fedora rpms, and everything I use worked > fine. (I haven't had any problems with the one from the rpms on F18 yet > either, but ...) I will second the TeXLive distribution from CTAN. I have been using it since TeXLive 2010, and it has always behaved reliably. I do not h

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread George Avrunin
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 18:47:52 +, Tethys wrote: > I tried various > other options and ended up with ConTeXt, which I'm generally pretty > happy with. Except that it doesn't work on F17. At all. And yes, I do > mind migrating. For new projects, it's not so bad. But for already > published books, i

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus
Well I have been using TeXlive for a long time, and I do it in different machines and with different OS. But my basic system is Ubuntu LTS, I hate to change my OS every six months and I prefer something more stables. With Fedora in the last versions I have few troubles and I use them but they are

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/07/2013 01:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Not really sure why you're bringing in Adobe. TeX/LaTeX have nothing to do with PDF (sure, they can optionally generate PDF output, but that's not the point). As it happens, the difference has been discussed on the scribus mailing list, so I'm

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 11:07 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/07/2013 10:56 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > That might work for some projects, but generally speaking people using > > TeX/LaTeX are concerned about finer control of typesetting, especially > > when it comes to mathematical material. T

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/07/2013 11:32 AM, Tethys wrote: If you create a PDF from a given input source, then it goes without saying that it will only be able to position the characters in the same position as they are in the input. If the input supports per-character positioning (as most Adobe products do, FWIW), t

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread José Matos
On 03/07/2013 11:59 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > OK, THis is correct, > > but > > \documentclass[a4paper]{article} > \usepackage{fourier} > \begin{document} > Hello world! > L'{\'E}l{\'e}phant va {\`a} la mare. > \[\frac14=0{,}25\] > \end{document}

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Tethys
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > You may find this interesting, then. PDF files created by Scribus are > considerably larger than those created by Adobe. This is because Adobe sets > the position for a line, then inserts a string of characters for that line. > Scribus sets the

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread José Matos
On 03/07/2013 11:32 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I installes texlive2012, > but apparently the fonts are not installed! > In additon, when I make, > > rpm -ql texlive > I get: > (contains no files) > > while: > rpm -q texlive > texlive-2012-16.2

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/07/2013 10:56 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: That might work for some projects, but generally speaking people using TeX/LaTeX are concerned about finer control of typesetting, especially when it comes to mathematical material. TeX/LaTeX is the gold standard for this. To paraphrase Brian Ker

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/07/2013 10:47 AM, Tethys wrote: I've been doing this a long time now, and I'm well aware of the alternatives. OK, just asking. I've run across any number of people across the years who learn one way of doing something and keep doing it that way long after there's a better way simply be

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 10:40 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/07/2013 05:34 AM, Tethys wrote: > > TeX under Fedora is frankly a joke these days :-( I don't know if > > there's currently a maintainer. Certainly no one's responding to > > critical bug reports. ConTeXt is literally unusable out of the bo

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Tethys
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > There are other FOSS options for this, you know. If you don't mind > migrating from a markup language to a GUI, you might consider Scribus. I've > had good luck with it on small projects, and I know that there are > professionals out there using

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/07/2013 05:34 AM, Tethys wrote: TeX under Fedora is frankly a joke these days :-( I don't know if there's currently a maintainer. Certainly no one's responding to critical bug reports. ConTeXt is literally unusable out of the box (as in, it doesn't run at all), which make typesetting my boo

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 13:34:48 + Tethys wrote: > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Patrick Dupre > wrote: > > > I installes texlive2012, > > but apparently the fonts are not installed! > > In additon, when I make, > > > > rpm -ql texlive > >

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Tethys
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > I installes texlive2012, > but apparently the fonts are not installed! > In additon, when I make, > > rpm -ql texlive > I get: > (contains no files) > > while: > rpm -q texlive > texlive-2012-16.2013020

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 12:59 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >> > >> I installes texlive2012, > >> but apparently the fonts are not installed! > >> In additon, when I make, > >> > >> rpm -ql texlive > >> I get: > >> (c

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 07.03.2013 12:59, schrieb Patrick Dupre: > >>> >>> I installes texlive2012, >>> but apparently the fonts are not installed! >>> In additon, when I make, >>> >>> rpm -ql texlive >>> I get: >>> (contains no files)

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Patrick Dupre
I installes texlive2012, but apparently the fonts are not installed! In additon, when I make, rpm -ql texlive I get: (contains no files) while: rpm -q texlive texlive-2012-16.20130205_r29034.fc18.x86_64 Whould I finish the install manually? [root@rh:~]$ yum search texlive fonts

Re: texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 07.03.2013 12:32, schrieb Patrick Dupre: > Hello, > > I installes texlive2012, > but apparently the fonts are not installed! > In additon, when I make, > > rpm -ql texlive > I get: > (contains no files) > > while: > rpm -q texlive > texlive-2012-16.20

texlive

2013-03-07 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I installes texlive2012, but apparently the fonts are not installed! In additon, when I make, rpm -ql texlive I get: (contains no files) while: rpm -q texlive texlive-2012-16.20130205_r29034.fc18.x86_64 Whould I finish the install manually? Thank

Re: texlive in F18: \usepackage{pslatex} -> kpathsea: Running mktexmf ptmr7t - I can't find file `ptmr7t'

2013-01-19 Thread Frédéric Bron
> FWIW, I got around the error you reported by doing the following > over-kill. > > yum install texlive*font* Thanks. In fact it comes with texlive-times. In my real document, I also needed: texlive-vmargin texlive-fancyhdr texlive-marvosym texlive-helvetic texlive-pst-tools te

Re: texlive in F18: \usepackage{pslatex} -> kpathsea: Running mktexmf ptmr7t - I can't find file `ptmr7t'

2013-01-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/19/2013 04:43 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Do you have texlive-texmf-fonts installed? FWIW, I got around the error you reported by doing the following over-kill. yum install texlive*font* -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better id

Re: texlive in F18: \usepackage{pslatex} -> kpathsea: Running mktexmf ptmr7t - I can't find file `ptmr7t'

2013-01-19 Thread Ed Greshko
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901394 > > Does anyone know a work around? It seems that texlive packages have > changed from F17 to F18. > > Frédéric Do you have texlive-texmf-fonts installed? -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving t

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