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+ On 16/10/2011 22:33, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
+ <blockquote cite="mid:201110161333.06594.thomas@btspuhler.com"
+ type="cite">
+ <pre wrap="">On Sunday, October 16, 2011 04:05:52 am Giuseppe Ghib&ograve; wrote:
+</pre>
+ <blockquote type="cite">
+ <pre wrap="">On 26/09/2011 17:34, Anssi Hannula wrote:
+</pre>
+ <blockquote type="cite">
+ <pre wrap="">On 26.09.2011 15:47, nicolas vigier wrote:
+</pre>
+ <blockquote type="cite">
+ <pre wrap="">On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
+</pre>
+ <blockquote type="cite">
+ <pre wrap="">But are you sure about texlive providing it?
+</pre>
+ </blockquote>
+ <pre wrap="">
+I don't know. It looks like it's not in the texlive package.
+</pre>
+ </blockquote>
+ <pre wrap="">
+My impression (from a few years back I think) is that standalone
+texi2html is the texlive-era replacement for tetex-texi2html.
+</pre>
+ </blockquote>
+ <pre wrap="">
+It's not like this. The misalignment in having multiple versions comes
+from having different source of packages. tetex had it's own texi2html
+(so I guess texlive), which is certified and well QA and integrated with
+that tetex version, so it provides "texi2html". At a certain point newer
+versions of texi2html were placed in contrib because they were newer
+(there were also other packages in this situation, xdvi, prosper, etc.)
+and because of not touching the main tetex package. To handle this kind
+of misalignment a good way to proceed would be to go in the main package
+providing it (i.e. tetex/texlive) and try to merge the newer texi2html
+with the new one, then redoing the tests. This often doesn't happen
+because it takes a lot of amount of time, and require to handle with the
+main and bigger package (texlive/tetex), and people often don't do this
+if they are doing "snack packaging".
+
+The other way, which is to transform everything as "pluggable" (e.g.
+split packages at source, so for instance not having tetex providing
+texi2html) IMHO doesn't provide the same amount of certification,
+because the packager (packager not necessarely means the maintainer)
+just upgrade the version number, without taking care of re-testing, and
+in case he doesn't know in deep about that package what he does as side
+effect is to give away the upstream tetex/texlive certification
+(certification that the included, so older, texi2html package works well
+and has no flaws with the rest of the tetex/texlive distro) in favour of
+a newer version (hoping that if something goes wrong or of some bug some
+end-user would file a bug on bugzilla...).
+
+Bye.
+G.
+</pre>
+ </blockquote>
+ <pre wrap="">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.
+
+</pre>
+ </blockquote>
+ 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):<br>
+ <br>
+ mpost&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; mf2pt1 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ -translate-file=cp227.tcx mf2pt1.mp<br>
+ <br>
+ (of course the file mf2pt1.mp should be provided somewhere [it's in
+ CTAN:<cite>tex-archive/support/<b>mf2pt1</b></cite><span class="std">]</span>),
+ and then recreate the missed file with: fmtutil --missing (or
+ --all).<br>
+ <br>
+ Bye<br>
+ Giuseppe.<br>
+ <br>
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