[17295] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.3.19: latex
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Wed Oct 20 18:01:40 1999
Message-Id: <199910202201.SAA24179@geskekelud.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:01:28 -0400
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
System name: geskekelud.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.3.19 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgsix
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: twm
What were you trying to do?
use the times style
What's wrong:
It reads /usr/athena/lib/tex/macros/latex/times.sty, which is
a 2.09 style file. This causes an error:
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again>
p
l.3 \begin{document}
Note that if you do add -f newtex, and re-run, it finds
/mit/newtex/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/times.sty
which is a 2e style, and works.
What should have happened:
Well, I'm not quite sure. Ideally, it would know to find a 2e
style called times.sty (in a different place) if it's running
latex2e, and the 2.09 times.sty if it's running 2.09. I don't
know if this is feasible. Next option, rename one of the two
styles to something else (like times and timrom, during the
conversion from dvi2ps to dvips).
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
There aren't a lot of 2.09 styles which completely break under
2e, but postscript font families are one. (tgrind is the
other one I know of).
