Comments for Alexis Ballier's blog http://aballier.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:51:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on Introducing texmfind by Vladimir Brik http://aballier.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/introducing-texmfind/#comment-250 Vladimir Brik Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:53:33 +0000 http://aballier.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-250 I've been using texlive without problems for a while, primarily for presentations with beamer and typesetting conference papers. The only minor annoyance is that a lot of people in academia still use tetex, which typically comes without xelatex and associated packages. As far as bugs go, here's a thread about a bug in texlive 2007's xelatex that affects advanced features of some opentype fonts: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/12669a7a162dd1d9/86a3e4d7091ea20f It's not really a Gentoo problem, but if you want, I could file a bug. I’ve been using texlive without problems for a while, primarily for presentations with beamer and typesetting conference papers.

The only minor annoyance is that a lot of people in academia still use tetex, which typically comes without xelatex and associated packages.

As far as bugs go, here’s a thread about a bug in texlive 2007’s xelatex that affects advanced features of some opentype fonts:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/12669a7a162dd1d9/86a3e4d7091ea20f

It’s not really a Gentoo problem, but if you want, I could file a bug.

]]> Comment on Introducing texmfind by AlefBet http://aballier.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/introducing-texmfind/#comment-249 AlefBet Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:53:34 +0000 http://aballier.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-249 One thing that might be worth mentioning somewhere prominent is that it's easier to manage texlive by just merging app-text/texlive (none of the other packages), but using its USE flags to pull in all the other packages. That way you end up with a less cluttered world file and it's easier to see what you're pulling in and why just by looking at your /etc/portage/package.use entry. I started to merge a laundry list of packages to get all the features I wanted, but about halfway through picking them I realized that I could get what I wanted more cleanly by setting my USE flags for the main package and also my LINGUAS. One thing that might be worth mentioning somewhere prominent is that it’s easier to manage texlive by just merging app-text/texlive (none of the other packages), but using its USE flags to pull in all the other packages. That way you end up with a less cluttered world file and it’s easier to see what you’re pulling in and why just by looking at your /etc/portage/package.use entry.

I started to merge a laundry list of packages to get all the features I wanted, but about halfway through picking them I realized that I could get what I wanted more cleanly by setting my USE flags for the main package and also my LINGUAS.

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]]> Comment on Introducing texmfind by Alexis http://aballier.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/introducing-texmfind/#comment-243 Alexis Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:25:36 +0000 http://aballier.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-243 @François: it's the "migrate" link in the blog post :) http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml @François: it’s the “migrate” link in the blog post :)
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml

]]> Comment on Introducing texmfind by Francois http://aballier.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/introducing-texmfind/#comment-242 Francois Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:17:25 +0000 http://aballier.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-242 Alexis, I cannot locate the how-to on the gentoo web-site could point me in the right direction please. Alexis, I cannot locate the how-to on the gentoo web-site
could point me in the right direction please.

]]> Comment on Introducing texmfind by Another Christian http://aballier.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/introducing-texmfind/#comment-241 Another Christian Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:10:22 +0000 http://aballier.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-241 I have switched to TeXlive in the middle of 2007, I think. Since then it has been working better than the previous teTeX installation. It's great that I do not have to manually copy updated versions of some LaTeX packages into the texmf subdirectories. Many thanks for the hard work the TeX herd has accomplished! I have switched to TeXlive in the middle of 2007, I think. Since then it has been working better than the previous teTeX installation. It’s great that I do not have to manually copy updated versions of some LaTeX packages into the texmf subdirectories.

Many thanks for the hard work the TeX herd has accomplished!

]]> Comment on Introducing texmfind by Francois http://aballier.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/introducing-texmfind/#comment-239 Francois Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:54:02 +0000 http://aballier.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-239 I sent the elog at your Gentoo address. I sent the elog at your Gentoo address.

]]> Comment on Introducing texmfind by Alexis http://aballier.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/introducing-texmfind/#comment-238 Alexis Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:32:34 +0000 http://aballier.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-238 @François: thanks for the feedback; I'm interested in these collisions, even if they are with no other packages, that might be stray files. But regarding the packages you mention, they seem to be the ones that install formats and symlinks in /usr/bin; which symlinks were poorly handled with tetex and are not unmerged when removing it. @Francesco: I'd say a more or less full (full for what I need to do) will be about 200M; that's a little bit more unfortunately. The minimal set would be texlive-latexrecommended and its deps if you want the 'latex' command; but if you want to do a bit more there is the meta ebuild app-text/texlive, it installs nothing but depends on other packages. @François: thanks for the feedback; I’m interested in these collisions, even if they are with no other packages, that might be stray files. But regarding the packages you mention, they seem to be the ones that install formats and symlinks in /usr/bin; which symlinks were poorly handled with tetex and are not unmerged when removing it.

@Francesco: I’d say a more or less full (full for what I need to do) will be about 200M; that’s a little bit more unfortunately. The minimal set would be texlive-latexrecommended and its deps if you want the ‘latex’ command; but if you want to do a bit more there is the meta ebuild app-text/texlive, it installs nothing but depends on other packages.

]]> Comment on Introducing texmfind by Francesco http://aballier.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/introducing-texmfind/#comment-237 Francesco Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:19:02 +0000 http://aballier.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-237 Hi. A tetex installation at the moment is of about 120 mb. How much disk space does texlive requires? and what is the minimal "standard" package set an user could need? Hi.
A tetex installation at the moment is of about 120 mb. How much disk space does texlive requires? and what is the minimal “standard” package set an user could need?

]]> Comment on Introducing texmfind by Christian http://aballier.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/introducing-texmfind/#comment-236 Christian Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:54:46 +0000 http://aballier.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-236 And it is keyworded ~x86, thanks for the tool. And it is keyworded ~x86, thanks for the tool.

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