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Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?)
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?) |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:50:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi!
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> This patch fixes it:
[...]
> + (("translate-file=cp227")
> + (format #f
> "translate-file=~a/share/texmf-dist/web2c/cp227"
> + (assoc-ref inputs "texlive-kpathsea")))))
Woow, thumbs up. Not something one could have guessed!
> With this patch the German PDF manual has no more encoding problems.
> This should go to core-updates or a new texlive-upgrade branch, because
> it results in countless rebuilds.
OK.
> There are still remaining problems when using make doc/guix.de.pdf:
>
> * kpathsea causes mktexpk to be run for a number of fonts that already
> exist in the union (e.g. ecrm1200). Why aren’t they found? Perhaps
> that’s because TeX Live only includes the font metrics (.tfm), but not
> the .pk files. I wonder why the .pk files are used at all.
>
> * despite successfully generating the PDF file in the temporary build
> directory, make aborts:
>
> /gnu/store/mw4llmn2l617gf5zakfk1l154f19lxbm-profile/bin/texi2dvi: pdftex
> exited with bad status, quitting.
> make: *** [Makefile:4375: doc/guix.de.pdf] Error 1
‘texi2dvi’ swallows error messages; I’m not sure it can be made more
verbose, but I remember debugging it through strace (!) where I could
see the underlying messages, which sometimes contain hints if you’re
able to read between the lines.
Kudos on the progress you made!
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), (continued)
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/10/22
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/10/22
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), zimoun, 2020/10/22
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/10/22
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), zimoun, 2020/10/22
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/10/22
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), zimoun, 2020/10/22
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), zimoun, 2020/10/22
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/10/22
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/10/25
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?),
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/10/27