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- NTeX Bugs in Version 2.1
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- NTEX V2.6, APR-21-1996
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- o All (most?) scripts, InstallNTeX and ntex/scripts/* contain ``#! /bin/sh''
- in the first line, thus assuming that this is bash. It it not correct on
- most none-Linux systems. I built a small ed script that replaces this
- with ``#! /usr/local/bin/bash'', but maybe a better solution is to try
- to do something similar to the Tcl/Tk scripts: in the beginning of every
- script, there are the following lines:
-
- #!/bin/sh
- # the next line restarts using wish \
- exec wish "$0" "$@"
-
- # hello --
- # Simple Tk script to create a button that prints "Hello, world".
- ...
- o I had a problem that an original installation (from CDROM, not NTeX) was
- in the $PATH, and it probably contained another version of ``kpsewhich''.
- Before installing, it is important to remove (at least from the $PATH)
- none-NTeX TeX elements.
- o when ``configure'' created the Makefiles, it put there a line like
- ``SHELL = /usr/local/bin/tcsh'' (This is the shell I use) and this
- broke the Makefiles. It better search for bash and put it instead,
- regardless of the user's shell.
- o The Makefiles search for lex, and in my system there is a system lex
- which is incompatible with GNU flex. I think that there should be a
- remark to use GNU flex, and that configure will look for flex before it
- looks for lex: GNU installation installs it under the name flex, and does
- not link it to lex, so even if /usr/local/bin (our GNU repository)
- contains flex, the system lex is used.
- (Avner Lottem <lottem@techunix.technion.ac.il>)
-
- NS-ITRAN V2.3, APR-16-1996
-
- YYTEXT_POINTER is not guessed correctly for all systems. If you
- have trouble compiling ilex.c define YYTEXT_POINTER in c-auto.h
- after configuring. (FL)
-
- NX-XLATEX, NX-XTEM V2.0, FEB-21-1996
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- XTem and XLaTeX crash for some LaTeX files during compilation
- without message, esp. in LaTeX2.09 compatibility mode. The files
- work outside the TeX shells. Memoryproblem?
- (Fridger Schrempp <t00fri@HP-Cluster.desy.de>)
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- NX-BIBT V2.0, FEB-21-1996
-
- bibview complains about syntax errors after loading some bib
- files, but reports "number of errors: 0".
- some of the resources can't be set cleanly, even by using 'editres'.
- (Fridger Schrempp <t00fri@HP-Cluster.desy.de>)
-
- NB-XDVI V2.0, FEB-21-1996
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- xdvi does not rotate, only postscript figs are rotated.
- (Fridger Schrempp <t00fri@HP-Cluster.desy.de>)
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- NTEX V2.0, FEB-21-1996
-
- Add version numbers of included files for each package.
- (Fridger Schrempp <t00fri@HP-Cluster.desy.de>)
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- NB-CM V2.0, FEB-08-1996
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- Knuth font parameter files are not found, fix: remove !! from MFINPUTS
- in texmf.cnf. (FL)
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- NTEX V2.0, JAN-31-1996
-
- You need the GNU tools to install NTeX! This causes some trouble on
- non-Linux systems. InstallNTeX first tries to find gtar, gsed, etc.
- and if these are not availabel it uses tar, sed, etc. Especially
- GNU tar and GNU CPIO are necessary to install the packages. Also
- expect lots of trouble with 'cut'. This will change in a later release.
-
- NF-WNRI V2.0, JAN-23-1996
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- The font wngbt10 and is broken. The parameters cause an inconsistent
- equation in $TEXMF/fonts/wnri/source/oldeng.mf in line 39. Also
- wngbss10 is broken, it gives an inconsistent equation in oldneng.mf,
- line 507. To use these fonts create it with
- mf "\mode=<metafont-mode>; mag:=<magnification>; input wngbt10"
- gftopk wngbt10.<dpi>pk
- and copy the pk file to $TEXMF/fonts/wnri/pk/<metafont-mode>/ and
- the tfm file to $TEXMF/fonts/wnri/tfm/. If you find a way to fix
- the bug let me know. (FL)
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