Bug#111489: tetex-base: Old version of latex.fmt causes failure of cslatex.fmt creation

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:02:16PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> From: David Rohleder <davro@ics.muni.cz>
> Subject: Bug#111489: tetex-base: Old version of latex.fmt causes failure of cslatex.fmt creation
> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:29:27 +0200
> 
> > I was trying to use cslatex, but initex fails to create 
> > /usr/share/texmf/web2c/cslatex.fmt
> > 
> > Error message during running /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base configure :
> [...]
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> is it enough to fix this familiar report that we only add
> 
> \scrollmode
> 
> to cslatex.ini ?

Should be.

> I guessed so because I recalled the former mail
> 
> From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: Out-of-Date LaTeX in Woody
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:57:05 +0100
> 
> > Yes, the problem will be ignored in the default LaTeX build.  However,
> > I have seen instances of other packages which base themselves on LaTeX
> > but don't use a \spoolmode command in their .ini files, so fall over
> > because of this.
> 
> (perhaps \spoolmode is a typo of \scrollmode)

You're right ;-)

   Julian

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