From e633a9c46a74bd6ac3ecccd48ccdc961c5394827 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Berry Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:14:43 +0000 Subject: typos, i386-netbsd will be in git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@14926 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751 --- Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/Makefile | 2 +- .../texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html | 277 +++++++++++---------- Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.pdf | Bin 970273 -> 970501 bytes Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex | 24 +- 4 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 143 deletions(-) (limited to 'Master') diff --git a/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/Makefile b/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/Makefile index d9881613faf..170161df9c3 100644 --- a/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/Makefile +++ b/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/Makefile @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ doc = texlive-en lang = english -all: html # pdf +all: pdf html env = TEXINPUTS=../texlive-common:../texlive-en:; export TEXINPUTS; diff --git a/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html b/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html index 2812d3beffb..78c7da8d6fc 100644 --- a/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html +++ b/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ TeX Live 2009 - + @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ class="ec-lmss-10">tlmgr. Like the installer, it

The TEX community is active and friendly, and most serious questions end up getting answered. However, the support is informal, done by volunteers and casual readers, so it’s especially important that you do your -homework before asking. (If you prefer guaranteed commercial support, you can forego TTEX Live completely and purchase a vendor’s system; %PROGRAMFILES%\texlive\2009) and Unix (/usr/local/texlive/2009).

The main reason to change this default is if you lack write permission for the default location. You don’t -have to be root or adminstrator to install TTEX Live, but you do need write access to the target directory.

A reasonable alternative choice is a directory under your home directory, especially if you will be the sole @@ -2739,7 +2739,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-10">/tlpkg’ component are ignored.) http://ctan.example.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/, substituting a real hostname and its -particular top-level CTAN path for for ctan.example.org. The list of CTAN mirrors is maintained at EX Live would never get precedence. As a safeguard, the installer creates a shortcut to the command-prompt in which the new TEX Live binary directory is prepended to the local searchpath. The new TEX Live binary directory is prepended to the local search path. The new TEX Live will be always usable from within such a command-prompt. The shortcut for TEXworks, if installed, also prepends TEX Live to the searchpath, so it should also be immune to this path +class="E">EX Live to the search path, so it should also be immune to this path problem.

For Vista there is another twist: even if you are logged in as administrator, you need to explicitly ask for administrator privileges. In fact, there is not much point in logging in as administrator. Instead, @@ -4417,9 +4417,9 @@ class="ec-lmtt-10">v{a,b}w expands to vaw:vbw. Nesting is allowed. This is used to implement multiple TEX hierarchies, by assigning a brace list to $TEXMF. For example, -in texmf.cnf, the following definition (appproximately; there are actually even more trees) is +class="ec-lmtt-10">$TEXMF. For +example, in texmf.cnf, the following definition (approximately; there are actually even more trees) is made: @@ -4794,9 +4794,9 @@ class="ec-lmtt-10"> /usr/local/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/beebe/tugboat.bib

By the way, that last is a BibTeX bibliography database for TUGBoat articles. +class="ec-lmro-10">TUGboat articles.

-

+

> .pk’ files in TEX Live — the Type 1 variants are used by default.
-

+

> .pk’ files, and since the default Metafont mode on our installation is ljfour with a base resolution of 600dpi (dots per inch), this instantiation is returned.
-

+

> xdvi would go off and actually build the required .pk files using the script mktexpk. -

Next we turn our attention to

Next we turn our attention to dvips’s header and configuration files. We first look at one of the commonly used files, the general prologue tex.pro for Tdvips config) for the file config.ps.

-

+

>   /usr/local/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map
-

We now take a closer look at the URW Times PostScript support files. The prefix for these in the standard +

We now take a closer look at the URW Times PostScript support files. The prefix for these in the standard font naming scheme is ‘utm’. The first file we look at is the configuration file, which contains the name of the map file:

-

+

>   /usr/local/texmf-dist/dvips/psnfss/config.utm
The contents of that file is
-

+

  p +utm.map
which points to the file utm.map, which we want to locate next.
-

+

>  /usr/local/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/times/utm.map
This map file defines the file names of the Type 1 PostScript fonts in the URW collection. Its contents look like (we only show part of the lines):
-

+

utmb8r  <utmr8a.pfb class="ec-lmtt-10">utmr8a.pfb and find its position in the texmf directory tree with a search for Type 1 font files:
-

+

>   /usr/local/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/times/utmr8a.pfb
-

It should be evident from these examples how you can easily locate the whereabouts of a given file. This is +

It should be evident from these examples how you can easily locate the whereabouts of a given file. This is especially important if you suspect that the wrong version of a file is picked up somehow, since kpsewhich will show you the first file encountered. -

+

8.2.4 Debugging actions
-

Sometimes it is necessary to investigate how a program resolves file references. To make this practical, +

Sometimes it is necessary to investigate how a program resolves file references. To make this practical, Kpathsea offers various levels of debugging output: -

+

 1
-

stat calls (disk lookups). When running with an up-to-date ls-R database this should almost give no output. @@ -5015,49 +5015,49 @@ class="ec-lmtt-10">ls-R database this should almost  2

-

References to hash tables (such as

References to hash tables (such as ls-R databases, map files, configuration files).

 4
-

File open and close operations. +

File open and close operations.

 8
-

General path information for file types searched by Kpathsea. This is useful to find out where a +

General path information for file types searched by Kpathsea. This is useful to find out where a particular path for the file was defined.

16
-

Directory list for each path element (only relevant for searches on disk). +

Directory list for each path element (only relevant for searches on disk).

32
-

File searches. +

File searches.

64
-

Variable values.

-

A value of

Variable values. +

A value of -1 will set all the above options; in practice, this is usually the most convenient. -

Similarly, with the

Similarly, with the dvips program, by setting a combination of debug switches, one can follow in detail where files are being picked up from. Alternatively, when a file is not found, the debug trace shows in which directories the program looks for the given file, so that one can get an indication what the problem is. -

Generally speaking, as most programs call the Kpathsea library internally, one can select a debug option by +

Generally speaking, as most programs call the Kpathsea library internally, one can select a debug option by using the KPATHSEA_DEBUG environment variable, and setting it to (a combination of) values as described in the above list. -

(Note for Windows users: it is not easy to redirect all messages to a file in this system. For diagnostic +

(Note for Windows users: it is not easy to redirect all messages to a file in this system. For diagnostic purposes you can temporarily SET KPATHSEA_DEBUG_OUTPUT=err.log). -

Let us consider, as an example, a small LAT

Let us consider, as an example, a small LATEX source file, hello-world.tex, which contains the following input. @@ -5075,13 +5075,13 @@ input. id="x1-67008r4">    \end{document}

-

This little file only uses the font

This little file only uses the font cmr10, so let us look at how dvips prepares the PostScript file (we want to use the Type 1 version of the Computer Modern fonts, hence the option -Pcms).

-

+

> dvips Reference Manual, texmf/doc/dvips/dvips.pdf). The output (slightly rearranged) appears in Figure 12. -


Finding the font file

dvips starts by locating its working files. First, texmf.cnf is found, which gives the definitions of the search paths for the other files, then the file database dvips command). This file contains the list of the map files which define the relation between the TEX, PostScript and file system names of the fonts.

-

+

> psfonts.map, which is always loaded (it contains declarations for commonly used PostScript fonts; see the last part of Section 8.2.3 for more details about PostScript map file handling). -

At this point

At this point dvips identifies itself to the user:

-

+

This is (www.radicaleye.com)
Then it goes on to look for the prolog file texc.pro:
-

+


kdebug:start search(file=texc.pro, => /usr/local/texmf/dvips/base/texc.pro
-

After having found the file in question,

After having found the file in question, dvips outputs the date and time, and informs us that it will generate the file hello-world.ps, then that it needs the font file cmr10, and that the latter is declared as “resident” (no bitmaps needed):

-

+


TeX outputcmr10.tfm, which is found, then a few more prolog file referenced, and finally the Type 1 instance cmr10.pfb of the font is located and included in the output file (see last line).
-

+


kdebug:start search(file=cmr10.tfm,<cmr10.pfb>[1]

8.3 Runtime options

-

Another useful feature of Web2C is its possibility to control a number of memory parameters (in particular, +

Another useful feature of Web2C is its possibility to control a number of memory parameters (in particular, array sizes) via the runtime file texmf.cnf read by Kpathsea. The memory settings can be found in Part 3 of that file in the TEX Live distribution. The more important are: -

+

main_memory
-

Total words of memory available, for T

Total words of memory available, for TEX, Metafont and MetaPost. You must make a new format file for each different setting. For instance, you could generate a “huge” version of TEX, and call @@ -5495,7 +5495,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf.cnf. extra_mem_bot

-

Extra space for “large” T

Extra space for “large” TEX data structures: boxes, glue, breakpoints, etc. Especially useful if you use PI CTEX. @@ -5503,27 +5503,27 @@ class="E">EX. font_mem_size

-

Number of words for font information available for T

Number of words for font information available for TEX. This is more or less the total size of all TFM files read.

hash_extra
-

Additional space for the hash table of control sequence names. Only

Additional space for the hash table of control sequence names. Only 10,000 control sequences can be stored in the main hash table; if you have a large book with numerous cross-references, this might not be enough. The default value of hash_extra is 50000.

-

Of course, this facility is no substitute for truly dynamic arrays and memory allocation, but since these are +

Of course, this facility is no substitute for truly dynamic arrays and memory allocation, but since these are extremely difficult to implement in the present TEX source, these runtime parameters provide a practical compromise allowing some flexibility. -

+

9 Acknowledgements

-

T

TEX Live is a joint effort by virtually all of the TEX user groups. This edition of TEX Live was overseen by @@ -5677,41 +5677,43 @@ class="E">EX Live, and coordinator of the many

  • Graham Williams, on whose work the TEX Catalogue of packages depends.
  • -

    Builders of the binaries: Peter Breitenlohner (

    Builders of the binaries: Peter Breitenlohner (x86_64-linux), Karl Berry (i386-linux, sparc-linux), Akira -Kakuto (sparc-linux), +Akira Kakuto (win32), Dick Koch (universal-darwin), Norbert Preining (alpha-linux), Thomas Schmitz (powerpc-linux), -Apostolos Syropoulos (i386-solaris), Vladimir Volovich (alpha-linux), Jukka Salmi +(i386-netbsd), Thomas Schmitz (powerpc-linux), Apostolos Syropoulos (i386-solaris), Vladimir Volovich +(powerpc-aix, sparc-solaris), Olaf Weber (mips-irix). For -information on the TEX Live build process, see mips-irix). For information on the TEX Live build process, see +http://tug.org/texlive/build.html. -

    Current documentation translators: Jjgod Jiang, Jinsong Zhao, Yue Wang, & Helin Gai (Chinese), Klaus +

    Current documentation translators: Jjgod Jiang, Jinsong Zhao, Yue Wang, & Helin Gai (Chinese), Klaus Höppner (German), Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard (French), Petr Sojka & Jan Busa (Czech/Slovak), Boris Veytsman (Russian), Staszek Wawrykiewicz (Polish). The TEX Live documentation web page is http://tug.org/texlive/doc.html. -

    Of course the most important acknowledgement must go to Donald Knuth, first for inventing T

    Of course the most important acknowledgement must go to Donald Knuth, first for inventing TEX, and then for giving it to the world. -

    +

    10 Release history

    -

    +

    10.1 Past

    -

    Discussion began in late 1993 when the Dutch T

    Discussion began in late 1993 when the Dutch TEX Users Group was starting work on its 4AllTEX CD for MS-DOS users, and it was hoped at that time to issue a single, rational, CD for all systems. This was too @@ -5735,7 +5737,7 @@ class="E">EX CD showed that Unix users would benefit from a similarly easy system, and this is the other main strand of TEX Live. -

    We first undertook to make a new Unix-based TDS CD in the autumn of 1995, and quickly identified +

    We first undertook to make a new Unix-based TDS CD in the autumn of 1995, and quickly identified Thomas Esser’s teTEX as the ideal setup, as it already had multi-platform support and was built with portability across file systems in mind. Thomas agreed to help, and work began seriously at the start of 1996. @@ -5750,12 +5752,12 @@ class="ec-lmtt-10">texconfig script. The 3rd edition of the CD was based class="E">EX was being made, and TEX Live included almost all of its features. The 4th edition followed the same pattern, using a new version -of teTEX, and a new release of Web2C (7.3). The system now included a complete Windows +of teTEX, and a new release of Web2C (7.3). The system now included a complete Windows setup. -

    For the 5th edition (March 2000) many parts of the CD were revised and checked, updating hundreds of +

    For the 5th edition (March 2000) many parts of the CD were revised and checked, updating hundreds of packages. Package details were stored in XML files. But the major change for TEX Live 5 was that all non-free software was removed. Everything in Thttp://www.debian.org/intro/free); we have done our best to check the license conditions of all packages, but we would very much appreciate hearing of any mistakes. -

    The 6th edition (July 2001) had much more material updated. The major change was a new install concept: +

    The 6th edition (July 2001) had much more material updated. The major change was a new install concept: the user could select a more exact set of needed collections. Language-related collections were completely reorganized, so selecting any of them installs not only macros, fonts, etc., but also prepares an appropriate language.dat. -

    The 7th edition of 2002 had the notable addition of Mac OS X support, and the usual myriad of updates to +

    The 7th edition of 2002 had the notable addition of Mac OS X support, and the usual myriad of updates to all sorts of packages and programs. An important goal was integration of the source back with teTEX, to correct the drift apart in versions 5 and 6. -

    +

    10.1.1 2003
    -

    In 2003, with the continuing flood of updates and additions, we found that T

    In 2003, with the continuing flood of updates and additions, we found that TEX Live had grown so large it could no longer be contained on a single CD, so we split it into three different distributions (see section 2.1, @@ -5832,10 +5834,10 @@ class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx. (Future releases

  • Finally, since the edition numbers had grown unwieldy, the version is now simply identified by the year: TEX Live 2003.
  • -

    +

    10.1.2 2004
    -

    2004 saw many changes: +

    2004 saw many changes:

      @@ -5843,7 +5845,7 @@ class="E">EX Live 2003.
    class="ec-lmtt-10">.map or (much less likely) .enc support files, you may need to move those support files. -

    .map files are now searched for in subdirectories of fonts/map only (in each texmf tree), along @@ -5854,7 +5856,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-10">fonts/enc only, along the ENCFONTS path. updmap will attempt to warn about problematic files. -

    For methods of handling this and other information, please see +

    For methods of handling this and other information, please see http://tug.org/texlive/mapenc.html. @@ -5930,7 +5932,7 @@ class="E">EXt, etc., as well as the e-TEX features (texmf-dist/doc/etex/base/). -

    It also means it’s

    It also means it’s more important than ever to use the ifpdf package (works with both plain and LATmpost) now accepts double quotes containing spaces and id="x1-73004r2">  \input{"filename with spaces"}  % latex

    -

    See the Web2C manual for more:

    See the Web2C manual for more: texmf/doc/web2c.

  • encTt1utils programs. This is because they are compiled wi class="ec-lmss-10">mips-irix, the MIPSpro 7.4 runtimes are required.
  • -

    +

    10.1.3 2005
    -

    2005 saw the usual huge number of updates to packages and programs. The infrastructure stayed relatively +

    2005 saw the usual huge number of updates to packages and programs. The infrastructure stayed relatively stable from 2004, but inevitably there were some changes there as well: @@ -6123,7 +6125,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-10">^^ notation if you so desire, id="x1-74002r1">  latex --translate-file=empty.tcx yourfile.tex

    -

    +

  • The new program dvipdfmx is included for translation of DVI to PDF; this is an actively maintained @@ -6148,10 +6150,10 @@ class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFSYSVAR, respectively. There is also TEXMFVAR, which is by default user-specific. See the first point above.
  • -

    +

    10.1.4 2006–2007
    -

    In 2006–2007, the major new addition to T

    In 2006–2007, the major new addition to TEX Live was the XeTEX program, available as the xetex and @@ -6159,14 +6161,14 @@ class="ec-lmtt-10">xetex and class="ec-lmtt-10">xelatex programs; see http://scripts.sil.org/xetex. -

    MetaPost also received a notable update, with more planned for the future (

    MetaPost also received a notable update, with more planned for the future (http://tug.org/metapost/articles), likewise pdfTEX (http://tug.org/applications/pdftex). -

    The T

    The TEX .fmt (high-speed format) and the similar files for MetaPost and Metafont are now stored in subdirectories of tex or pdftex or xetex. This change should be invisible in normal use. -

    The (plain)

    The (plain) tex program no longer reads %& first lines to determine what format to run; it is the pure Knuthian TEX. (LATEX and everything else do still read %& lines). -

    Of course the year also saw (the usual) hundreds of other updates to packages and programs. As usual, +

    Of course the year also saw (the usual) hundreds of other updates to packages and programs. As usual, please check CTAN (http://www.ctan.org) for updates. -

    Internally, the source tree is now stored in Subversion, with a standard web interface for viewing the tree, +

    Internally, the source tree is now stored in Subversion, with a standard web interface for viewing the tree, as linked from our home page. Although not visible in the final distribution, we expect this will provide a stable development foundation for future years. -

    Finally, in May 2006 Thomas Esser announced that he would no longer be updating teT

    Finally, in May 2006 Thomas Esser announced that he would no longer be updating teTEX (EX Live, which provides an approximate equivalent.) We hope this will eventually translate to improvements in the TEX environment for everyone. -

    +

    10.1.5 2008
    -

    In 2008, the entire T

    In 2008, the entire TEX Live infrastructure was redesigned and reimplemented. Complete information about an installation is now stored in a plain text file tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb. -

    Among other things, this finally makes possible upgrading a T

    Among other things, this finally makes possible upgrading a TEX Live installation over the Internet after the initial installation, a feature MiKTEX has provided for many years. We expect to regularly update new packages as they are released to CTAN. -

    The major new engine LuaT

    The major new engine LuaTEX (http://luatex.org) is included; besides a new level of flexibility @@ -6224,57 +6226,57 @@ in typesetting, this provides an excellent scripting language for use both insid class="E">EX documents. -

    Support among Windows and the Unix-based platforms is now much more uniform. In particular, most +

    Support among Windows and the Unix-based platforms is now much more uniform. In particular, most Perl and Lua scripts are now available on Windows, using the Perl internally distributed with TEX Live. -

    The new

    The new tlmgr script (section 6) is the general interface for managing TEX Live after the initial installation. It handles package updates and consequent regeneration of formats, map files, and language files, optionally including local additions. -

    With the advent of

    With the advent of tlmgr, the texconfig actions to edit the format and hyphenation configuration files are now disabled. -

    The

    The xindy indexing program (http://xindy.sourceforge.net/) is now included on most platforms. -

    The

    The kpsewhich tool can now report all matches for a given file (option –all) and limit matches to a given subdirectory (option –subdir). -

    The

    The dvipdfmx program now includes functionality to extract bounding box information, via the command name extractbb; this was one of the last features provided by dvipdfm not in dvipdfmx. -

    The font aliases

    The font aliases Times-Roman, Helvetica, and so on have been removed. Different packages expected them to behave differently (in particular, to have different encodings), and there was no good way to resolve this. -

    The

    The platex format has been removed, to resolve a name conflict with a completely different Japanese platex; the polski package is now the main Polish support. -

    Internally, the

    Internally, the WEB string pool files are now compiled into the binaries, to ease upgrades. -

    Finally, the changes made by Donald Knuth in his ‘T

    Finally, the changes made by Donald Knuth in his ‘TEX tuneup of 2008’ are included in this release. See http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-2/tb92knut.pdf. -

    +

    10.2 Present

    -

    In 2009, the most visible change is that pdf(L

    In 2009, the most visible change is that pdf(LA )TEX now automatically converts a requested Encapsulated @@ -6283,16 +6285,16 @@ class="ec-lmss-10">epstopdf package, when and if the class="E">Egraphics.cfg configuration file is loaded, and PDF is being output. The default options are intended to eliminate any chance of -hand-created PDF’s being overwritten, but you can also prevent epstopdf from being loaded at all by putting -epstopdf from being loaded at all by +putting \newcommand{\DoNotLoadEpstopdf}{} (or \def...) before the \documentclass declaration. For details, see -the epstopdf package documentation (\documentclass declaration. For +details, see the epstopdf package documentation (http://ctan.org/pkg/epstopdf-pkg). -

    A related important change is that execution of a few external commands, via the

    A related important change is that execution of a few external commands, via the \write18 feature, is now enabled by default — for example, epstopdf, 3.2.4), or override the value in texmf.cnf after installation. -

    The default output format for Lua(L

    The default output format for Lua(LA )TEX is now PDF, to take advantage of LuaTEX’s OpenType @@ -6316,9 +6318,9 @@ LuaTEX home page is http://luatex.org. -

    The original Omega engine and Lambda format have been excised, after discussions with the Omega +

    The original Omega engine and Lambda format have been excised, after discussions with the Omega authors. The updated Aleph and Lamed remain, as do the Omega utilities. -

    A new release of the AMS Type 1 fonts is included, including Computer Modern: a few shape +

    A new release of the AMS Type 1 fonts is included, including Computer Modern: a few shape changes made over the years by Knuth in the Metafont sources have been integrated, and the hinting has been updated. The Euler fonts have been thoroughly reshaped by Hermann Zapf (see http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-2/tb92hagen-euler.pdfhttp://www.ams.org/tex/amsfonts.html. -

    The new GUI front end T

    The new GUI front end TEXworks is included for Windows, and also in MacTEX. For other platforms, and more information, see the TEXworks home page, http://tug.org/texworks. It is a cross-platform front end inspired by the Mac OS X TeXShop editor, aiming at ease-of-use. -

    The graphics program Asymptote is included for several platforms. This implements a text-based graphics +

    The graphics program Asymptote is included for several platforms. This implements a text-based graphics description language vaguely akin to MetaPost, but with advanced 3D support and other features. Its home page is http://asymptote.sourceforge.net. -

    The separate

    The separate dvipdfm program has been replaced by dvipdfmx, which operates in a special compatibility mode under that name. dvipdfm release. The DVIPDFMx home page is http://project.ktug.or.kr/dvipdfmx. -

    A miscellany of smaller changes: we now use

    Executables for the cygwin and i386-netbsd platforms are now included, while the other BSD distributions +have been dropped; we were advised that OpenBSD and FreeBSD users get TEX through their package +systems, plus there were difficulties in making binaries that have a chance on working on more than one + + +version. +

    A miscellany of smaller changes: we now use xz compression, the stable replacement for lzma (http://tukaani.org/xz/); a literal $ is allowed in filenames when it does not introduce a known variable name; the Kpathsea library is now multi-threaded (made use of in MetaPost); the entire TEX Live build is - - now based on Automake. -

    Final note on the past: all releases of T

    Final note on the past: all releases of TEX Live, along with ancillary material such as CD labels, are available at ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive. -

    +

    10.3 Future

    -

    TEhttp://tug.org/texlive/contribute.html. -

    Please send corrections, suggestions, and offers of help to: +

    Please send corrections, suggestions, and offers of help to:

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