X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Steve Holden Subject: Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:32:51 -0400 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <20100820154337 DOT GB844 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: <20100820154337.GB844@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 8/20/2010 11:43 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 08:00:14AM -0400, Steve Holden wrote: >> On 8/20/2010 7:53 AM, Steve Holden wrote: >>> On 8/20/2010 5:29 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: >>>> On Thu 25 May 2006, Karl Berry wrote: >>>> >>>>> This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem: >>>>> >>>>> etex pdfetex language.def -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini >>>>> >>>>> Either (1) the second word should be changed to "etex", or >>>>> (2) it should be arranged for "etex" in invoke pdfetex instead of etex. >>>>> E.g., make "etex" a link to pdfetex, instead of its own binary. >>>>> >>>>> We do (2) for TeX Live. >>>> >>>> Please could this fix be applied? I just ran into the same problem, >>>> four years later, and I'm not the only one since then (I notice >>>> another thread from 2007). >>>> >>> We don't need no stinkin' issue tracker. >>> >> It struck me that this remark might be ambiguous, or even be regarded as >> offensive by some. > > I found it tedious actually, and wondered if you were going to now start > jumping up and down in every message where it seems remotely possible > that an "issue tracker" was the "solution" to a problem. > Oh, no. I think the issue has been adequately exercised already, and I have no skin in that particular game. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010 http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple