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It looks like it's not in the texlive package. +</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> 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>><i> Thanks for the explanation. +</I>><i> It seems you are pretty versed in texlive. Would you mind to look as why +</I>><i> muscore doesn't build anymore with the current texlive: +</I>><i> Font metrics written on mscore1-20.tfm. +</I>><i> Output written on mscore1-20.600gf (18 characters, 7172 bytes). +</I>><i> Transcript written on mscore1-20.log. +</I>><i> This is MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.1) +</I>><i> (../mf2pt1.mp (/usr/share/texmf-dist/metapost/base/mfplain.mp +</I>><i> Preloading the plain base, version 0.99: preliminaries, +</I>><i> basic constants and mathematical macros, +</I>><i> macros for converting units, +</I>><i> macros and tables for various modes of operation, +</I>><i> macros for drawing and filling, +</I>><i> macros for proof labels and rules, +</I>><i> macros for character and font administration, +</I>><i> and a few last-minute items.)) +</I>><i> Transcript written on mf2pt1.log. +</I>><i> Invoking "mpost -mem=mf2pt1 -progname=mpost '\mode:=localfont; mag:=100; +</I>><i> bpppix 0.02; input feta20.mf'"... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Sorry, I can't find the 'mf2pt1' preload file; will try 'plain'.This is +</I>><i> MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.1) +</I>><i> (plain.mp +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It lloks as if mf2pt1 is missing, The script is available on it's own, put old +</I>><i> texlive and tetex didn't show this problem. +</I>><i> +</I>I've not an installation with the package you are talking about handy to +check myself, but you may try to add the following line to the file +`kpsewhich fmtutil.cnf` (backtick included): + +mpost mf2pt1 - +-translate-file=cp227.tcx mf2pt1.mp + +(of course the file mf2pt1.mp should be provided somewhere [it's in +CTAN:tex-archive/support/*mf2pt1*]), and then recreate the missed file +with: fmtutil --missing (or --all). + +Bye +Giuseppe. + +-------------- next part -------------- +An HTML attachment was scrubbed... +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20111017/e5e5fec6/attachment.html> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008903.html">[Mageia-dev] texi2html +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008887.html">[Mageia-dev] Blogdrake repository for Mageia +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8935">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8935">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8935">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8935">[ 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> |