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Subject: Re: Bugs in CYGWIN teTeX
References: <194230-220029412194917207 AT cantv DOT net>
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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:12:10 +0200
In-Reply-To: <194230-220029412194917207@cantv.net> ("rodmedina@cantv.net"'s
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"rodmedina AT cantv DOT net" <rodmedina AT cantv DOT net> writes:

> Dear Mr. Esser:

[you probably won't find Thomas here :) ]

>  I have just installed the teTeX distribution that comes with CYGWIN, I
> have found various bugs that, after a week of pain, I have resolved.

Thanks for looking into it.

> 1- XDVI Configuration: Unconvinient shrink buttons; the initial shrink ratio
>   does not correspond to any button. In the texconfig v0.99
>   in the run_xdvi_setup_mode() function are defined 4 buttons, but actually
>   the shrink buttons are only 3. The fullsize button is not the #1. Instead
>   of "b1=1; b2=2; b3=3; b4=4" it should be "b1=2; b2=3; b3=4". Actually, for
>   a small screen with 300dpi I have found better "b1=2; b2=4; b3=6".

I don't fully understand.  Do you suggest this problem is unique to
Cygwin, or do you see this in a UNIX environment too?  Note that xdvik
is derived from xdvi, which is developed by Paul Vojta
(vojta AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu).  You may want to get the latest xdvi
(ftp://ftp.math.berkeley.edu/pub/Software/TeX) and see if the problem
is fixed; and otherwise to report to him.

> 2-xdvi fails to find poscript fonts. After generating the ghostscript fonts
>   with the t1mapper, xdvi still makes pk files for postscript fonts.
>   The problem is with the file ps2pk.map in which the gs fonts appear with
>   an encode number they should not have. Example, instead of
>  
> ptmr8r NimbusRomNo9L-Regu "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc
> <utmr8a.pfb
>                                                                        ^^
> it should be
>
> ptmr8r NimbusRomNo9L-Regu "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc <utmr.pfb

Why do you think that?  I'm not a guru at Type1 fonts usage in TeX,
but this is right from the teTeX source, and Debian GNU/Linux uses the
same rule.

I would like to advise you to make a small example file that
illustrates your problem, and send a bug report to
tetex-pretest AT informatik DOT uni-hannover DOT de.

> 3-All the fonts are allways done in the working  directory and not
>   in VARTEXFONTS. The problem is due to the kpathsea script mktex.opt. Here
>   the path-separator is set SEP=';' as in DOS, but CYGWIN is like  UNIX.
>   The problem is that such script uses the fact that COMSPEC is defined
>   to deduce that the OS is DOS-WINDOWS. In CYGWIN COMSPEC is also defined.

Ok thanks, I missed that one.  mktexlsr, for example, had the same
problem.  This will be fixed in the next release.  It seems that some
strange/misguided patches for Cygwin found their way into teTeX once,
that define Cygwin as DOSISH troughout.  Most annoying.  My latest
fixes for Cygwin have not been included upstream yet.

> 4- Using the terminal RXVT the texconfig dialog does not appear. The fact
>    is that RXVT claims to be xterm but actually it is not. But it is vt100
>    compatible, so if one sets TERM=vt100, everything is OK. With the true
>    xterm of X11 texconfig works fine.

Ok.  I'll add that to the release notes.  I consider this a bug in RXVT.

> I hope that this information could be useful.

Thanks, greetings,

Jan.

-- 
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org


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