Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Markus Hoenicka MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15348.5126.44000.631380@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:14:14 +0000 To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: tetex-beta nitpicking [WAS: Re: no more package moratorium?] In-Reply-To: References: <007f01c16cde$5016de20$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <20011114124323.C24614@cygbert.vinschen.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.94 under Emacs 20.6.1 Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > http://lilypond.org/wiki/?TroubleshootingWindows). We currently use > and distribute MikTeX, because it works reliable, and right out of the > box. You can't even install MiKTeX unless you run the latest Windows or the latest Internet Explorer. > But I'd much rather we could use tetex. Using MikTeX from > cygwin is `cygpath hell'. I have instructions about installing a SGML system on Windows which also uses TeX for the printable output: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/cygbook1.html I provide a very simple shell script (for SGML->PS/PDF transformations) that takes care of the 'cygpath hell'. It is not that hard. It used to work for MiKTeX and works now for fpTeX and for Cygwin teTeX (and even for TeX on Unix platforms). > > > Please try to provide useful bug reports. "Is broke, please > > fix" does not count as useful, IMHO. > > Tetex-beta, as installed by setup.exe (v1.3.5) fails the first simple > LaTeX test: > > tineke@DOOS ~$ latex sample2e > This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.3) > I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! > tineke@DOOS $ uname -a > CYGWIN_98-4.10 DOOS 1.3.5(0.47/3/2) 2001-11-13 23:16 i586 unknown > Did you install the teTeX texmf tree? Just installing Tetex-beta is not enough, as explained by the Tetex-beta readme. This was also discussed on this list right after the first release of this package. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka, PhD UT Houston Medical School Dept. of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology 6431 Fannin MSB4.114 Houston, TX 77030 (713) 500-6313, -7477 (713) 500-7444 (fax) Markus.Hoenicka@uth.tmc.edu http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/