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Package: tex-common
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I started to use (La)TeX during teTeX-era. Then I chose hyphenations
with command "texconfig" and later with debconf of some package. I chose
hyhenations for english and finnish. In some point I switched from teTeX
to TeX Live.
My Master's Thesis had a line like this:
\usepackage[finnish,english]{babel}
And it works fine.
I changed it to this:
\usepackage[finnish,english,francais,italian]{babel}
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. I run update-languages by hand. After that it had
wrong permissions, beacause root has umask 077. I made it
world-readable.
Here are relevant lines from that file:
%%% From file: /etc/texmf/language.d/10texlive-lang-french.cnf
% 10texlive-lang-french.cnf
%
% You really can change stuff in this file, but it is NOT RECOMMENDED
% to play around with this file if you do not know what you are doing!
% Please leave this comment!
% -_- DebPkgProvidedMaps -_-
%
french frhyph.tex
=patois
=francais
basque bahyph.tex
%%% End of file: /etc/texmf/language.d/10texlive-lang-french.cnf
%%% From file: /etc/texmf/language.d/10texlive-lang-italian.cnf
% 10texlive-lang-italian.cnf
%
% You really can change stuff in this file, but it is NOT RECOMMENDED
% to play around with this file if you do not know what you are doing!
% Please leave this comment!
% -_- DebPkgProvidedMaps -_-
%
italian ithyph.tex
%%% End of file: /etc/texmf/language.d/10texlive-lang-italian.cnf
But now running latex looks like this:
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.30.5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
Source specials enabled.
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8g> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, finnish, ukenglish, loaded.
Where is that Italian and French? Later I see this:
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/finnish.ldf
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.def))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel) the language `French'
(babel) I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0
instead.
*************************************
* Local config file frenchb.cfg used
*
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.cfg))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/italian.ldf
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel) the language `Italian'
(babel) I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0
instead.
Aargh! What is the canonical way to activate hyphenations and other
language support of desired languages for LaTeX and friends? Running
"dpkg-reconfigure tex-common" did not provide that familiar debconf-dialog
for choosing hyphention and other language support. What should I do?
I think this bug is so obvious that minimal example file is not needed.
What will happen, if I purge and re-install all TeX-related packages?
I fear I will lose also Finnish hyphenation in that process.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (101, 'unstable'), (99, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.4 Debian configuration management sy
ii ucf 2.0014 Update Configuration File: preserv
tex-common recommends no packages.
Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
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
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
tex-common/singleuser: false
tex-common/cnf_name:
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Hi Juhapekka!
On Son, 24 Sep 2006, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> juhtolv@heresy:/home/juhtolv % mv .texmf-var dot.texmf-var.save
>
> yphenation, finnish, french, basque, italian, latin, ukenglish, loaded.
>
> BINGO! :-D
So I guess I can close the bug. This happened probably because you
recreated the latex format as user and not as root.
If you feel that there is still work to be done here please reopen the
bug.
Best wishes
Norbert
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