[Mageia-dev] texi2html

Mon Oct 17 14:03:51 CEST 2011

On 16/10/2011 22:33, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
+> 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. 
+>
+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.
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