[Mageia-dev] texi2html

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Sunday, October 16, 2011 04:05:52 am Giuseppe Ghibò wrote:
> On 26/09/2011 17:34, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> > On 26.09.2011 15:47, nicolas vigier wrote:
> >> On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
> >>> But are you sure about texlive providing it?
> >> 
> >> I don't know. It looks like it's not in the texlive package.
> > 
> > My impression (from a few years back I think) is that standalone
> > texi2html is the texlive-era replacement for tetex-texi2html.
> 
> It's not like this. The misalignment in having multiple versions comes
> from having different source of packages. tetex had it's own texi2html
> (so I guess texlive), which is certified and well QA and integrated with
> that tetex version, so it provides "texi2html". At a certain point newer
> versions of texi2html were placed in contrib because they were newer
> (there were also other packages in this situation, xdvi, prosper, etc.)
> and because of not touching the main tetex package. To handle this kind
> of misalignment a good way to proceed would be to go in the main package
> providing it (i.e. tetex/texlive) and try to merge the newer texi2html
> with the new one, then redoing the tests. This often doesn't happen
> because it takes a lot of amount of time, and require to handle with the
> main and bigger package (texlive/tetex), and people often don't do this
> if they are doing "snack packaging".
> 
> The other way, which is to transform everything as "pluggable" (e.g.
> split packages at source, so for instance not having tetex providing
> texi2html) IMHO doesn't provide the same amount of certification,
> because the packager (packager not necessarely means the maintainer)
> just upgrade the version number, without taking care of re-testing, and
> in case he doesn't know in deep about that package what he does as side
> effect is to give away the upstream tetex/texlive certification
> (certification that the included, so older, texi2html package works well
> and has no flaws with the rest of the tetex/texlive distro) in favour of
> a newer version (hoping that if something goes wrong or of some bug some
> end-user would file a bug on bugzilla...).
> 
> Bye.
> G.
Thanks for the explanation. 
It seems you are pretty versed in texlive. Would you mind to look as why 
muscore doesn't build anymore with the current texlive:
Font metrics written on mscore1-20.tfm.
Output written on mscore1-20.600gf (18 characters, 7172 bytes).
Transcript written on mscore1-20.log.
This is MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.1)
(../mf2pt1.mp (/usr/share/texmf-dist/metapost/base/mfplain.mp
Preloading the plain base, version 0.99: preliminaries,
 basic constants and mathematical macros,
 macros for converting units,
 macros and tables for various modes of operation,
 macros for drawing and filling,
 macros for proof labels and rules,
 macros for character and font administration,
and a few last-minute items.))
Transcript written on mf2pt1.log.
Invoking "mpost -mem=mf2pt1 -progname=mpost '\mode:=localfont; mag:=100; 
bpppix 0.02; input feta20.mf'"...

Sorry, I can't find the 'mf2pt1' preload file; will try 'plain'.This is 
MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.1)
(plain.mp

It lloks as if mf2pt1 is missing, The script is available on it's own, put old 
texlive and tetex didn't show this problem. 

-- 
Thomas