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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/Changes b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/Changes index 97e510793ab..288e3990219 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/Changes +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/Changes @@ -1,12 +1,14 @@ +2017-02-01 Siep Kroonenberg <siepo@cybercomm.nl> Release 0.5.2 + + * Various silent command-line options added + * Updated documentation + 2017-02-01 Siep Kroonenberg <siepo@cybercomm.nl> Release 0.5.1 * Tlaunch uninst options are now called uninst and uninst_all - rather than uninst_keep_tldir and uninst. - + rather than uninst_keep_tldir and uninst. * Added -v/--version option and help output - * Simpler root texmf.cnf in RUG example files - * Reorganized packaging 2017-01-27 Siep Kroonenberg <siepo@cybercomm.nl> Release 0.5.0 diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/README index e4c3e53c626..5fe26a136a2 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/README @@ -16,10 +16,12 @@ Features: See the manual for placement of tlaunch.exe and tlaunch.ini, and for customizing the ini file. -For trying this out on an existing local installation, a script -tlaunchmode is included which can convert a classic installation -into a launcher-based one and back. The manual has a section on this -script which also explains how to install it. +The launcher is already part of TeX Live. The 2017 installer has an +option to make the installation launcher-based. + +A script tlaunchmode is included which can convert a classic +installation into a launcher-based one and back. The manual has a +section on this script. The file rug.zip contains as an example a more elaborate configuration, based on the installation at the Rijksuniversiteit diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/figures/custom_ed.png b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/figures/custom_ed.png Binary files differindex d0d1c6a5710..589802427cc 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/figures/custom_ed.png +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/figures/custom_ed.png diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/tlaunch.pdf b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/tlaunch.pdf Binary files differindex 53d5631b966..9d0167a08d4 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/tlaunch.pdf +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/tlaunch.pdf diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/tlaunch.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/tlaunch.tex index a984e57a2eb..923e176cfa6 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/tlaunch.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/tlaunch/tlaunch.tex @@ -1,4 +1,24 @@ \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside]{report} + +% narrow margins, same layout +\AtBeginDocument{% + \paperwidth\textwidth + \advance\paperwidth48bp + \oddsidemargin-48bp + \paperheight\textheight + \advance\paperheight48bp + % no header + %\headheight=0bp + %\headsep=0bp + % otherwise: + \advance\paperheight\headheight + \advance\paperheight\headsep + \advance\paperheight\footskip + \topmargin=-48bp + \pdfpagewidth=\paperwidth + \pdfpageheight=\paperheight +} + % fonts \usepackage{tgpagella} \let\slshape\itshape @@ -45,7 +65,7 @@ \newenvironment{ttdesc}{% \def\descriptionlabel##1{\hspace\labelsep\ttfamily\selectfont ##1}% \description}{\enddescription} -\hyphenation{head-ache} +\hyphenation{head-ache work-space} \title{TLaunch: a launcher for a \TL{} system} \author{Siep Kroonenberg} @@ -55,7 +75,7 @@ \thispagestyle{empty} \null\vfill {\small\parindent=0pt -This manual is for tlaunch, the \TL{} Launcher, version 0.5.1. +This manual is for tlaunch, the \TL{} Launcher, version 0.5.2. Copyright \textcopyright{} 2017 Siep Kroonenberg. @@ -169,8 +189,7 @@ External scripts may run on demand, as the action associated with a button or a menu control; see section \ref{sec:utscripts}. Scripts may also run automatically, as supplemental initialization or cleanup; see the \texttt{pre\_config}, \texttt{post\_config} and -\texttt{pre\_forget} variables in table \ref{tab:strings}. Examples -uses: +\texttt{pre\_forget} variables in table \ref{tab:strings}. Examples: \begin{itemize} \item Forgetting a previous release of \TL{} before configuring the current one. This only makes sense for a centrally-managed \TeX{} @@ -190,19 +209,23 @@ uses: The ini file defines the menu items and buttons of the graphical interface. These controls can start up \GUI{} programs or run utility scripts, or run some predefined functions. The ini file also -defines filetype associations, and may define scripts for doing +defines filetype associations, and may specify scripts for doing additional configuration and cleanup. \subsection{Location} \label{sec:loc} -One option is to place both the binary and the ini file in the -root of the \TL{} installation. Another is to place the binary in -\TL{} binary directory, \texttt{\emph{tlroot}/bin/win32}, and the -ini file where \texttt{kpsewhich} can find it, \emph{e.g.} in -\texttt{\emph{tlroot}/texmf-config/web2c}. +In \TL, the binary is in the \TL{} binary directory, +\texttt{\emph{tlroot}/bin/win32}, and the ini file is in +\texttt{\emph{tlroot}/texmf-dist/web2c}. The installer may have +created a modified higher-priority copy in +\texttt{\emph{tlroot}/texmf-var/web2c}. A custom +\texttt{tlaunch.ini} in \texttt{\emph{tlroot}/texmf-config/web2c} +will override either. In this case, do not forget to update the +filename database. -The binary and the ini file should have the same first name. +Another option is to place both the binary and the ini file in the +root of the \TL{} installation. \subsection{Encoding} \label{sec:enc} @@ -374,9 +397,11 @@ The following functions are available: \item [FU:clear] Undo all configuration and terminate \item [FU:initialize] Undo all configuration, terminate and restart. This forces re-initialization. -\item [FU:editor\_select] See section \ref{sec:edsel} below -\item [FU:default\_editor] See section \ref{sec:edsel} below +\item [FU:editor\_select] See section \ref{sec:edsel} +\item [FU:default\_editor] See section \ref{sec:edsel} \item [FU:about] An About box +\item [FU:uninst\_all] See section \ref{sec:lbased} +\item [FU:uninst] See section \ref{sec:lbased} \end{ttdesc} \subsection{Menus and buttons} @@ -426,14 +451,14 @@ Quit=FU:quit \subsection{The General section} \label{sec:gen} -Here, three keywords are allowed: +This section is optional. Three keywords are allowed: \begin{ttdesc} \item[Filetypes] Allowed values are \begin{itemize} \item \texttt{none}: do not set or change filetype associations \item \texttt{new}: create filetype associations only if they do not override existing ones; default - \item \texttt{overwrite} create filetype associations regardless + \item \texttt{overwrite}: create filetype associations regardless of existing ones \end{itemize} \item[searchpath] {\sloppy Allowed values are 0 (leave searchpath @@ -455,7 +480,7 @@ FILETYPES=new SEARCHPATH=1 KEEPTEMPS=0 \end{verbatim} -Since these are all default settings, one may as well omit this section. +The above values are the defaults. \section{Editor choice} \label{sec:edsel} @@ -505,24 +530,34 @@ Installation and uninstallation are triggered by command-line parameters: \begin{ttdesc} -\item[user\_inst] Install the launcher for a single user +\item[user\_inst] Install the launcher for a single user. This + includes doing the first-time initialization as in a regular + invokation. +\item[user\_inst\_silent] Silent single-user install \item[admin\_inst] Install the launcher for all users +\item[admin\_inst\_silent] Silent multi-user install \item[uninst] Undo installation but leave the \TL{} - directory tree alone + directory tree alone. Also runs the forgetter for the current + user silently, if it exists. \item[uninst\_all] Undo installation and remove the \TL{} directory - tree. This is the only option of these four which touches the \TL{} - installation itself. + tree. Also runs the forgetter for the current user silently, if it + exists. This is the only option of these four which touches the + \TL{} installation itself. +\item[silent] (Only for the forgetter) Remove settings silently \end{ttdesc} -If there is a forgetter for the current user, both uninst options -will run it. A command-line option \texttt{silent} will ensure -that the forgetter will run without user interaction. +The new launcher mode option of the 2017 \TL{} installer invokes the +launcher with one of the silent installer options. + +Within the launcher, there are functions \texttt{FU:uninst\_all} and +\texttt{FU:uninst} which can be assigned to a menu- or button +control. If necessary, the launcher will pop up a \textsc{uac} +prompt and restart in elevated mode. -Within the launcher, there are corresponding functions -\texttt{FU:uninst\_all} and \texttt{FU:uninst} which can be -assigned to a menu- or button control. If necessary, the launcher -will pop up a \textsc{uac} prompt and restart in elevated -mode. +If for either the path setting option or the file associations +option a non-default value was selected, the \TL{} installer creates +a higher-priority \texttt{tlaunch.ini} with corresponding settings, +even if launcher mode was not selected. \subsection{The tlaunchmode script} \label{sec:tlaunchmode} @@ -531,20 +566,10 @@ The included Perl script tlaunchmode can convert a local \TL{} installation between classic and launcher-based. Run with a parameter `on', the script turns launcher mode on; with `off' it reverts the installation to classic, and anything else prints a -brief help message. +brief help message. It is already part of \TL. It aborts if admin permissions are required but missing. -It can be installed in the usual way: put it under the scripts -subdirectory of some texmf tree, run \texttt{mktexlsr} on that tree, -and copy in the \texttt{\emph{tlroot}\bslb bin\bslb win32} directory -\texttt{runscript.exe} to \texttt{tlaunchmode.exe}. - -Although at the moment there is no mechanism to make the path- and -file association settings in the ini file conform to those set -during a classic installation, those orginal settings are restored -when converting back to classic mode. - \subsection{\TeX{} Live Manager} Nothing special has been done for the \TL{} Manager. It can be @@ -552,7 +577,8 @@ assigned to a menu- or button control, although this makes little sense for a centrally managed network installation. If necessary it will automatically pop up a \textsc{uac} prompt. -\chapter[The launcher at the RUG]{The launcher at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen} +\chapter[The launcher at the RUG]{The launcher at the + Rijksuniversiteit Groningen} \label{chap:rug} \begin{figure}[tb] @@ -613,8 +639,8 @@ described in Appendix \ref{sec:roam}. This desktop is also available remotely, which works reasonably well most of the time. -For \TL, I submit a wish list of settings to the workspace -management people, and they enter everything into the RES +For \TL, I submit a wish list of settings to be captured to the +workspace management people, and they enter everything into the RES system. Unfortunately, the RES system has its quirks, and what I expect to happen is not always what actually does happen. But this is not the place to expand on my trials and tribulations with RES. @@ -720,9 +746,9 @@ things. In the absence of any registry settings, SumatraPDF assumes that it is a portable setup, and tries to write user configuration to its -own directory. Its developers informed me what registry setting -would convince SumatraPDF otherwise, so that it would write its -configuration data to the user's profile. +own directory. Following advise from its developers, I created a +registry setting to convince SumatraPDF otherwise, and let it write +its configuration data to the user's profile. Checks for updates are disabled in a similar way as for \TS. @@ -745,17 +771,16 @@ installation. \section{Moving the \XeTeX{} font cache} \label{sec:xecache} -{\sloppy At the time of writing, the default location of the - \XeTeX{} font cache in \TL{} is \texttt{\$TEXMFYSVAR/\dbr - fonts/\dbr cache}, \emph{i.e.} \texttt{\emph{tlroot}/\dbr - texmf-var/\dbr fonts/\dbr cache}. In a multi-user or network - install, this location is not user-writable. Since this was a - problem, a line +The default location of the \XeTeX{} font cache in \TL{} is +\texttt{\$TEXMFYSVAR/\dbr fonts/\dbr cache}, \emph{i.e.} +\texttt{\emph{tlroot}/\dbr texmf-var/\dbr fonts/\dbr cache}. In a +multi-user or network install, this location is not +user-writable. Since this was a problem, a line \begin{verbatim} FC_CACHEDIR = $TEXMFVAR/fonts/cache \end{verbatim} in the file \texttt{\emph{tlroot}/\dbr texmf.cnf} moved the cache to a -user-writable location.\par} +user-writable location. Since I generate the \TL{} installation on a Linux system, the configured \TL{} font paths in \texttt{\$TEXMFSYSVAR/\dbr fonts/\dbr |