Bug#388788: Adding hyphenations of new languages is nothing but a major pain in the hindquarters
Hi all!
On Fre, 22 Sep 2006, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> Aargh! What is the canonical way to activate hyphenations and other
> language support of desired languages for LaTeX and friends? Running
For texlive as you did, install texlive-lang-*. This is the first time
that I heard that this didn't work. So let's find the problem.
> "dpkg-reconfigure tex-common" did not provide that familiar debconf-dialog
> for choosing hyphention and other language support. What should I do?
This has nothing to do with tex-common, but with the texlive-lang-*
packages.
> What will happen, if I purge and re-install all TeX-related packages?
> I fear I will lose also Finnish hyphenation in that process.
Nothing. Or better, it depends on how you installed the finnish
patterns.
> ii texlive-base-bin 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Essential binaries
> ii texlive-common 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Base component
> ii texlive-doc-base 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Base documentation
Which pther texlive packages do yuou have installed
On Sam, 23 Sep 2006, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> > > I also installed packages texlive-lang-french and texlive-lang-italian .
> > > A file called /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat was not
> > > properly generated.
>
> > In what sense was it not properly generated? How did you determin that?
>
> That file said nothing about Italian and French.
This is very strange. Can you take a look into
/var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-lang-french.postinst
and check whether there is a call for update-languages? (Sorry I am away
from any of my computers with texlive so I cannot check myself).
> > # fmutil-sys --all
> >
> > should regenerate all format files with hyphenation enabled based on the
> > configuration files in /etc/texmf/language.d/. If that does not help,
> > then we will need some more informations for debugging.
>
> I tried those two commands, but it did not help:
Can you send us the output of the
fmtutil-sys --all
call, best by doing (under (ba)sh):
fmtutil-sys --all > foo.log 2>&1
and send us foo.log
As usual I can only ask my crystal ball and it is very unclear, so maybe
there are some points I want to know:
- does the directory /root/.texmf-config exist and what files are in
there
- same for /root/.texmf-var
- same for /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/
Thanks a lot
Norbert
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