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It looks like it's not in the texlive package. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > My impression (from a few years back I think) is that standalone +</I>><i> > texi2html is the texlive-era replacement for tetex-texi2html. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It's not like this. The misalignment in having multiple versions comes +</I>><i> from having different source of packages. tetex had it's own texi2html +</I>><i> (so I guess texlive), which is certified and well QA and integrated with +</I>><i> that tetex version, so it provides "texi2html". At a certain point newer +</I>><i> versions of texi2html were placed in contrib because they were newer +</I>><i> (there were also other packages in this situation, xdvi, prosper, etc.) +</I>><i> and because of not touching the main tetex package. To handle this kind +</I>><i> of misalignment a good way to proceed would be to go in the main package +</I>><i> providing it (i.e. tetex/texlive) and try to merge the newer texi2html +</I>><i> with the new one, then redoing the tests. This often doesn't happen +</I>><i> because it takes a lot of amount of time, and require to handle with the +</I>><i> main and bigger package (texlive/tetex), and people often don't do this +</I>><i> if they are doing "snack packaging". +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The other way, which is to transform everything as "pluggable" (e.g. +</I>><i> split packages at source, so for instance not having tetex providing +</I>><i> texi2html) IMHO doesn't provide the same amount of certification, +</I>><i> because the packager (packager not necessarely means the maintainer) +</I>><i> just upgrade the version number, without taking care of re-testing, and +</I>><i> in case he doesn't know in deep about that package what he does as side +</I>><i> effect is to give away the upstream tetex/texlive certification +</I>><i> (certification that the included, so older, texi2html package works well +</I>><i> and has no flaws with the rest of the tetex/texlive distro) in favour of +</I>><i> a newer version (hoping that if something goes wrong or of some bug some +</I>><i> end-user would file a bug on bugzilla...). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Bye. +</I>><i> G. +</I>Thanks for the explanation. +It seems you are pretty versed in texlive. Would you mind to look as why +muscore doesn't build anymore with the current texlive: +Font metrics written on mscore1-20.tfm. +Output written on mscore1-20.600gf (18 characters, 7172 bytes). +Transcript written on mscore1-20.log. +This is MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.1) +(../mf2pt1.mp (/usr/share/texmf-dist/metapost/base/mfplain.mp +Preloading the plain base, version 0.99: preliminaries, + basic constants and mathematical macros, + macros for converting units, + macros and tables for various modes of operation, + macros for drawing and filling, + macros for proof labels and rules, + macros for character and font administration, +and a few last-minute items.)) +Transcript written on mf2pt1.log. +Invoking "mpost -mem=mf2pt1 -progname=mpost '\mode:=localfont; mag:=100; +bpppix 0.02; input feta20.mf'"... + +Sorry, I can't find the 'mf2pt1' preload file; will try 'plain'.This is +MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.1) +(plain.mp + +It lloks as if mf2pt1 is missing, The script is available on it's own, put old +texlive and tetex didn't show this problem. + +-- +Thomas +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008886.html">[Mageia-dev] texi2html +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008935.html">[Mageia-dev] texi2html +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8903">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8903">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8903">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8903">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |