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</A><BR><I>Mon Oct 17 14:03:51 CEST 2011</I><P><UL><LI>Previous message: <AHREF="008903.html">[Mageia-dev] texi2html
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><i> On Sunday, October 16, 2011 04:05:52 am Giuseppe Ghibò wrote:
</I>>><i> On 26/09/2011 17:34, Anssi Hannula wrote:
</I>>>><i> On 26.09.2011 15:47, nicolas vigier wrote:
</I>>>>><i> On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
</I>>>>>><i> But are you sure about texlive providing it?
</I>>>>><i> I don't know. 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.
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