Bug#289848: tetex-bin: pdflatex generates truncated seminar slides
reassign 289848 tetex-extra
retitle 289848 seminar should give correct papersize specials to pdftex
thanks
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
> No, but I've just seen that I had a seminar.con file in my personal
> texinputs directory. I now remember that I had a discussion about
> that in June 2004. I copied this file from the Debian distribution
> for non-Debian systems.
[...]
> The file is now /etc/texmf/latex/seminar.con from the tetex-extra
> package. So, if you try on a Debian machine, you should get the same
> behavior as me.
Of course I tried on a Debian machine - I hope the bug you describe
occurs on Debian, too. I don't want to debug anything else, and if you
mount your homedirectory on different operating systems, you'd probably
better disable the $HOMETEXMF tree for bug reporting if there are
distribution-specific adaptations in there.
> This file contains:
>
> \renewcommand{\printlandscape}{\special{landscape}}
>
> Can't pdflatex use that?
No, I don't think so - this is probably a PostScript special.
> If not, perhaps it could be modified to take
> pdflatex into account (I assume this is possible, using code similar
> to hyperref.sty or geometry.sty).
Yes, it might not even be hard do adapt it. But this is beyond what we
can do as Debian maintainers. Either we just hand on the request to the
seminar maintainer, or we hand it on to him with a patch, but that's all
we can do. And, as I said previously, I think it's even better if an
actual user of seminar contacts him.
> Since the behavior with dvips seems to be due to seminar.con, I think
> the bug should be reassigned to tetex-extra (possibly as wishlist).
I don't see how copying seminar.con from /etc/texmf/latex/ to $HOMETEXMF
could change the behavior of dvips?
> I think that always loading hyperref from seminar.con (if possible...)
> would be nice and that most users would like it. As this is a config
> file, I suppose that it could still be changed by individual users if
> need be.
I have no idea what the side effects would be. There are lots of
packages around that give bugs with hyperref, and I have no idea whether
seminar is one of them. Again: This is not a decision we Debian
maintainers can make.
>> Would you be willing to make this suggestion to the seminar developer?
>
> Well, for consistency with latex + dvips (and more flexibility), it
> should be in seminar.con, and this file is Debian-specific.
No, it isn't, it has been added by the upstream teTeX maintainer, Thomas
Esser, and its contents are taken from sem-user.tex. Although Thomas
added the file, the idea (of having it and of the contents) are from the
seminar author, and he should correct them.
> What do you think about reassigning the bug to tetex-extra?
done
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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