[157] in Release_7.7_team
Re: misc latex questions, for lack of a better place
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Wed Aug 17 16:45:47 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 16:45:34 +0500
To: Dorothy Bowe <dot@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Carla Fermann <carla@MIT.EDU>, release-77@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[154] in Release_7.7_team"
> Have the font names for LaTeX changed? Some of the consultants seem to
> be solving some people's problems by suggesting that they make changes
> in the names of the font (like from "newcen" to "ncs"). If so, is
> there a list of the old and new names anywhere?
I'm pretty sure that at least a couple of the names changed (timrom and
newcen), but other than that, I don't know.
Yes, these changed from dvi2ps-style to dvips-style. If you were
using dvips-style before, they should all be fine.
> Does anyone know if a TEXFONTS environment variable needs to be
> changed? I've seen people say that people need to put a : at the end
> of that too; is that true?
I don't know. Chad is probably the person here who knows the most about
the new configuration.
Well, that Chad guy is often off in left field, but I think he's right
on this one. :-) I sent in a medium-sized explanation to testers in
respone to the first draft release notes; the short form is:
The files are now in subdirs of /usr/athena/lib/tex/macros. To get
various tex things to search these subdirs, you need to either:
o tell it to search the subdirs, I believe by adding an extra
slash to the end of the path specification. I haven't tested
this; this is something bert told me.
o tell it to include the standard include path, specified via a
blank path element. The most common usage is to append these
defaults to the end of the search path by appending a colon to
the end of the TEXINPUTS.
> And what about xdvi? Does anyone know if the xdvi in the sipb locker
> is still supposed to work? I've seen quite a few questions about xdvi
> not working; it usually turned out that people were using the sipb
> version and having them use the standard one worked better. I don't
> know if there is an actual bug or if it's just kind of a yrrej reztlas
> problem. If I knew for sure I'd send it a bug report somewhere, but
> I'd like to know if anyone else knew of any problems.
To the best of my knowledge, the sipb xdvi is broken and it's been
reported to them. At least, I believe that I reported it.
The sipb xdvi is indeed broken, w.r.t. interaction with the athena
release. I dealt with the issue this morning, by moving the sipb
binaries out of the way. When bert gets back (an interesting story in
its own right) I assume he'll either remove those binaries or replace
them or something similar. Until then, any problems with collisions
should be fixed now.
Sorry I can't be more helpful,
What she said.
chad
