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dmpogo
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Joined: 02 Sep 2004
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Location: Canada
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| I am still using tetex and do not plan to migrate unless forced. It is a critical package for my day to day work and I cannot afford a chance that something will get broken. |
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GenKreton
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Joined: 20 Sep 2003
Posts: 828
Location: Cambridge, MA
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| Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 4:11 am Post subject: |
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| mv wrote: | | GenKreton wrote: | | I migrated to texlive a while ago and recently to 2008 but my fonts are terrible now |
texlive has at least all fonts which tetex had. If some fonts are missing, you probably have disabled some by your useflags. If you have other font problems you should explain them in more detail (including a minimal tex example and how you convert/view the output).
| Quote: | | and packages seem to be missing like units.sty. |
units.sty is contained in dev-texlive/latexextra which is pulled in by app-text/texlive if you activate the "extra" useflag (which will also pull in fonts-extra and thus perhaps also solves your font problem). |
The extra flag pulled in fonts among other packages I didn't yet know I was missing that I know I've used. Although the installation is happening now I am confident this fixed my issue. Many thanks for the advice. |
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equaeghe
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Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Posts: 235
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| Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| V-Li wrote: | | nabla² wrote: |
PS: I'm curious about the new texlive manager. AFAICS updating
packages creates some problems with portage. Will this be supported in
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As far as I understood Alexis (Ballier) it is not supported or allowed within Portage's version of TeXLive. Debian has a similar policy if I am informed correctly. However, I want to provide an interface between the TeXLive updates and Portage (like g-cpan), though my ideas are rough and not backed up by code at the moment. Due to time constraints implementation will take some time here. |
Being able to update packages would be nice (some---the most interesting ones, I would say---move quite fast, some great new ones arrive from time to time). Wouldn't it be possible to put them in the TeXMF tree under /usr/local like it is done with mpm right now? I've combined texlive with mpm without any real hassles for quite some time now. Perhaps this could even remove the need to include some packages in dev-tex and thus lessening the support load for the gentoo tex-devs.
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V-Li
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Joined: 03 Jan 2006
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The g-ctan tool is still under development, a good share is done, but it still lacks the last bits to make it functional. My plans are to create ebuilds that install into a completely different tree (not /usr/local to avoid overwriting of user installed files) so some configuration is needed.
The code is available from a Bazaar repository at http://www.v-li.de/g-ctan/
BUT PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THE CODE IS REALLY EXPERIMENtTAL. HAS NEVER BEEN TESTED ON A LIVE SYSTEM AND IS NOT, I REPEAT, NOT FUNCTIONAL.
It is not updated live, but I push it from time to time when I have internet access. Probably you won't get it working, so this is just for the people that yell "Show me the code"
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nb_666
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Joined: 02 Mar 2007
Posts: 37
Location: [Aveiro]
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| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:43 am Post subject: |
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| l3u wrote: | | I switched from teTex to TexLive some time ago without problems. |
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luscinius
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Joined: 17 Jul 2008
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| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:15 am Post subject: |
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| I use teTeX which was installed by default (I think because of the global "latex" USE flag). On my other computer I have Ubuntu with TeXlive, and I did not see a huge difference to bother upgrading; I decided to stick with what was default and worked nicely out of the box (unlike Ubuntu where I had to install some things manually). |
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turtles
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Joined: 31 Dec 2004
Posts: 1026
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| Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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Still using tetex I did not know it died.
and still looking for that perfect page break when printing long tables into a fixed with collum from a database that have widely varying text legnth per row combined with small amounts of text in other rows.
Is Texlive better at page breaks?
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equaeghe
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Joined: 22 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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| turtles wrote: | | Is Texlive better at page breaks? |
No. Texlive is a new tex distribution, not a new version of tex, which remains its stable dependable (but extended) self.
For enhanced functionality, see CTAN.
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V-Li
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| Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:54 am Post subject: |
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| V-Li wrote: | The g-ctan tool is still under development, a good share is done, but it still lacks the last bits to make it functional. My plans are to create ebuilds that install into a completely different tree (not /usr/local to avoid overwriting of user installed files) so some configuration is needed.
The code is available from a Bazaar repository at http://www.v-li.de/g-ctan/
BUT PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THE CODE IS REALLY EXPERIMENtTAL. HAS NEVER BEEN TESTED ON A LIVE SYSTEM AND IS NOT, I REPEAT, NOT FUNCTIONAL.
It is not updated live, but I push it from time to time when I have internet access. Probably you won't get it working, so this is just for the people that yell "Show me the code" |
For an update on the topic see http://www.faulhammer.org/archiv-mainmenu-31/35-gentoo/278-g-ctan-is-nigh
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ulm
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Joined: 04 Oct 2004
Posts: 55
Location: Mainz, Germany
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| Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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teTeX is masked for removal:
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