[Mageia-dev] texi2html

Sun Oct 16 22:33:06 CEST 2011

On Sunday, October 16, 2011 04:05:52 am Giuseppe Ghibò wrote:
+> On 26/09/2011 17:34, Anssi Hannula wrote:
+> > On 26.09.2011 15:47, nicolas vigier wrote:
+> >> On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
+> >>> But are you sure about texlive providing it?
+> >> 
+> >> I don't know. It looks like it's not in the texlive package.
+> > 
+> > My impression (from a few years back I think) is that standalone
+> > texi2html is the texlive-era replacement for tetex-texi2html.
+> 
+> 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.
+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
+