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<H1>Bugs and Feedback</H1>
<h3>Reporting bugs</h3>
<p>
Before you report a bug to me at <a href="mailto:wolfgang@decatur.de">wolfgang@decatur.de</a>,
please download the newest version of <span class=ite>iTe</span> and check if the bug persists.
Note that there may be a <a href="http://www.decatur.de/ite">most recent (beta) release</a>, including bug reports and workarounds.
</p>
<p>
Also check the following <B>bug list</B>. If you do report a bug, please provide the following, if possible:
</p>
<UL>
<LI>Version of <span class=ite>iTe</span>:
<LI>Version of <TT>Emacs</TT> or <TT>XEmacs</TT>:
<LI>Version of <TT>dvips</TT>:
<LI>Version of <TT>gs</TT>:
<LI>Version of <TT>perl</TT>:
<LI>Does the demo run?
<LI>Concise description of bug:
<LI>Any idea how the bug may be fixed:
</UL>
<h3>Bug list for iTe 3_0</h3>
<dl>
<dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>Latex style <tt>import.sty</tt> is incompatible with iTe.</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt>
<dd>Install Version 3_1 or in file <tt>tex/ite.sty</tt>, replace the line
<pre>
\def\ite@input#1{\message{ITEKEYOPEN}\iteinput#1\message{ITEKEYCLOSE}}
</pre>
by the line
<pre>
\def\ite@input#1{\message{ITEKEYOPEN}\iteinput{#1}\message{ITEKEYCLOSE}}
</pre>
</dd>
</dl>
<h3>Bug list for iTe 2_20</h3>
<dl>
<dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>Newer versions of Gnu Emacs (probably >21.2) break iTe's menubar.
</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt>
<dd>Install Version 3_0
</dd>
<dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>Newer versions of dvips(k) (probably >5.90) will produce invalid PostScript code.
</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt>
<dd>Install Version 3_0 or in file <tt>ite.ps</tt>, insert the line
<pre>
TeXDict begin
</pre>
before the line
<pre>
ITEDict begin
</pre>
</dd>
</dl>
<h3>Bug list for iTe 2_15</h3>
<dl>
<dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>On recent Linux installations, no ghostscript window appears after iTe is invoked.
</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt>
<dd>Install Version 2_20 or in file ite.el, replace the line<br>
<pre class=code>
(defcustom ite-gs-command "gs -c /iTeInit == flush -"
</pre>
by the line<br>
<pre class=code>
(defcustom ite-gs-command "gs -sDEVICE=x11 -c /iTeInit == flush -"
</pre>
Thanks to Heribert Weigert.
</dd></dl>
<h3>Bug list for iTe 2_1 (June 2000)</h3>
<dl>
<dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>iTe either fails to start up or displays initial pages
which do not contain iTe blocks.</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt>
<dd>Install Version 2_15 or in file ite.pl, replace the line<br>
<pre class=code>until ( $. >= @pages[0]->{BEGINLINE} ) {</pre>
by the line<br>
<pre class=code>until ( /%%Page:/ ) {</pre>
</dd></dl>
<h3>Bug list for iTe 2_01 (December 1999)</h3>
<dl>
<dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>On some window managers, an error is signaled if
the iTe online help is accepted on startup.</dd>
<dt >FIX</dt>
<dd>Do not accept. You can invoke the online help later
by typing ´h´ or using the iTe menu.</dd>
</dl>
<h3>Bug list for iTe 2_0 (November 1999)</h3>
<dl>
<dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>The <tt>\include</tt> macro does not work.</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt>
<dd>Replace the following line in ite_tex or ite.sty
<pre class=code>
\def\include#1{\message{ITEKEYOPEN}\iteinclude#1\message{ITEKEYCLOSE}}
</pre>
by
<pre class=code>
\def\include#1{\message{ITEKEYOPEN}\iteinclude{#1}\message{ITEKEYCLOSE}}
</pre></dd>
<dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>The Makefile is broken.</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt>
<dd>Replace the following line in the Makefile
<pre class=code>
-e "s|iTeDocPath|$(srcdir)/doc" \
</pre>
by
<pre class=code>
-e "s|iTeDocPath|$(srcdir)/doc|" \
</pre></dd>
</dl>
<h3>Bug list for iTe 1_4 (May 1999)</h3>
<dl><dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>Unbalanced parenthesis in the (La)TeX log-file throws iTe
into an endless loop.</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt>
<dd>Install iTe 2_0.</dd>
</dl>
<dl><dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>Using the <tt>seminar</tt> package, iTe gets the scaling
wrong in some cases.
</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt>
<dd>Install iTe 2_0.</dd>
</dl>
<h3>Bug list for iTe 1_3 (April 1999)</h3>
<dl><dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>In <tt>test-basic.tex</tt>, the iTe package should be
loaded without the <tt>[graphics]</tt> option.
</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt>
<dd>Remove the option.</dd>
</dl>
<dl><dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>For Plain TeX only: iTe does not work
correctly if <tt>\magnification</tt> values different from 1000
are used.
</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt>
<dd>There is no work-around.</dd>
</dl>
<h3>Bug list for iTe 1_2 (Feb 1999)</h3>
<dl><dt>BUG</dt>
<dd> Perl script does not handle big (>ite-ps-limit bytes) iTe objects
(reported by Torben Hoffmann).
</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt>
<dd> In <code>/ite/rsc/ite.pl</code>, replace the line
<pre class=code>print $fh "\n($FN) run\n";</pre>
by
<pre class=code>print PAGE "\n($FN) run\n";</pre></dd>
</dl>
<dl><dt>BUG</dt>
<dd><code>make install</code> cannot handle relative path names
for <code>texdir</code> and <code>lispdir</code>.
</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt>
<dd>Use absolute path names.</dd>
</dl>
<dl><dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>iTe fails to parse the (La)TeX log file correctly when
<code>\tracingmacros</code> is set.
</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt>
<dd>Don't use <code>\tracingmacros</code> when running iTe.</dd>
</dl>
<h3>Bug list for iTe 1_1 (Aug 1998)</h3>
<dl><dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>iTe scrambles macros in the TeX source that
start with <code>\ite</code> and do not continue with an 'm', such
as <code>\iterate</code>.</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt> <dd>Replace the single
occurrence of <code>[^m]</code> in ite.el by <code>[^a-zA-Z]</code>.</dd>
</dl>
<dl><dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>Pages are displayed but
immediately erased (GhostScript version 5_50).</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt>
<dd>Replace all two occurences in 'ite.el' of <code>copypage</code> by
<code>flushpage</code>.
</dd> </dl>
<dl><dt>BUG</dt>
<dd>Minor modes are switched off by iTe.</dd>
<dt>FIX</dt> <dd>Invoke minor modes
with the optional argument 't'. For example
<pre class=code>
(add-hook 'latex-mode-hook '(lambda () (interactive)
(outline-minor-mode t)))
</pre>
instead of
<pre class=code>
(add-hook 'latex-mode-hook 'outline-minor-mode)
</pre>
</dd>
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