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Re: Important note for maintainers of packages depending on tetex-bin



On 09.09.04 Steve M. Robbins (steven.robbins@videotron.ca) wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:51:09PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:

Hi,

> > Possible causes of failure are:
> > 
> > - Some packages create formats during building or installation, and have
> >   format names hardcoded in them. Because of a switch from TeX to e-TeX,
> >   the format names have changed from *.fmt to *.efmt in many cases
> > 
> > - There might be (font) packages that call /usr/bin/updmap with the
> >   option "--outputdir". Since the location of the generated map files
> >   has been changed, this will fail to change the actual configuration.
> > 
> > There might be other changes, but those are the ones we have encountered
> > so far.
> 
> Another for your list: psfig.sty has been removed.  I didn't find a 
> workaround, so geomview no longer ships a manual in PS format ;-(
> 
Does epsfig.sty not what you want? Have a look at grfguide.ps. Just
replacing \usepackage{psfig} by \usepackage{epsfig} should be
sufficient.

H.
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