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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] texi2html </TITLE> <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20texi2html&In-Reply-To=%3C4E9C19A7.30300%40gmail.com%3E"> <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="008903.html"> <LINK REL="Next" HREF="008887.html"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <H1>[Mageia-dev] texi2html</H1> Giuseppe Ghibò <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20texi2html&In-Reply-To=%3C4E9C19A7.30300%40gmail.com%3E" TITLE="[Mageia-dev] texi2html">ghibomgx at gmail.com </A> Mon Oct 17 14:03:51 CEST 2011 <UL> <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> Messages sorted by: <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>  <PRE>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.


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