Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 20:21:55 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Latest version of teTeX Message-ID: <40AEAB33.9040908@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040521.220621.39234817.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> References: <20040514215007.GA585@xor.obsecurity.org> <40AC8B55.4070809@web.de> <40AD58CB.9020304@users.sourceforge.net> <20040521.220621.39234817.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>
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Hiroki Sato wrote: > Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> wrote > in <40A4DD27.8090807@math.missouri.edu>: > > stephen> It seems to me that the teTeX program is designed so that dvips and xdvi > stephen> are built with it, and any attempts to modify the build procedure should > stephen> be done with extreme care. > > Sorry for my carelessness. I am working on fixing problems which are > reported on -ports@ list and want to fix them as soon as possible, > so could you please test the revised ports? I decided to get a repo-copy of > print/teTeX -> print/teTeX-base and make the previous one as a > meta-port to install print/teTeX-base, print/xdvik, and > print/dvipsk-tetex. The texconfig problem has also been fixed and > the users can use print/teTeX to install full set of the teTeX > distribution as they did. > > The revised ports are attached. > Thanks for the new teTeX ports. They work well except for one thing. I do appreciate that what I am wanting to do is not quite proper port usage, but it used to work. What I used to do was this. First I would make and install the teTeX port. Then I would run texconfig to get letter papersize. Then I would make package, and use the newly created package to install teTeX on other systems. If I do this now, the changes made to dvips/config/config.ps by texconfig do not get saved in the package, so I have to run texconfig again on the other computers. I know that this is a small quibble, and I can certainly work around it. Actually, what would really be nice is to have a teTeX-letter port that would be exactly the same as teTeX except that it would run the sequence of commands texconfig dvips paper letter texconfig dvipdfm paper letter texconfig xdvi us at the end (and presumably copy config.ps to config.ps.tetex which I am guessing would get rid of the problem I am describing above). I think that this extra port/package would be worthwhile because a lot of people would use it. Another possibility is to add a USE_LETTERSIZE option to the Makefile of the teTeX port. Thanks for all the work. I do appreciate it, and I do realise that this is a volunteer effort. Best, Stephen
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