Bug#289848: tetex-bin: pdflatex generates truncated seminar slides

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> schrieb:

> On 2005-01-12 19:05:15 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Of course I tried on a Debian machine - I hope the bug you describe
>> occurs on Debian, too.
>
> On my Debian machines: With the example I provided, the slides are
> printed correctly with latex + dvips (from the Debian distribution),
> but are truncated with pdflatex. This should be explained by the
> seminar.con file, that seems to work for Postscript only, as you
> said:

Okay. I said in an older mail that I also get the error with
latex-dvips-ps2pdf, but that was with the real minimal example with
article.cls, not with the file you sent. So you are right in that
seminar.con does the job for postscript.

>> > 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.
>
> OK, so it is (or was) teTeX-specific (since the site distribution at
> my lab had seminar.cls, but not seminar.con).

Well, yes. I'll ask Thomas.

Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer