Sorry for the delay of this reply, but I wanted to do the upgrade first in a i386 sid chroot before breaking the system I use for my daily builds of the installation guide again, and had to wait for some dependencies to resolve themselves. Also, thanks for the suggestions about which packages to install. I have kept with a minimal setup with additionally the texlive-lang-* packages for the languages we support. On Monday 16 April 2007 09:56, you wrote: > Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote: > > After installing what I thought I needed (and having the dependencies > > from jadetex satisfied), I tried building the installation guide, but > > ended up with: > > $ jadetex build.tmp/install.en.tex > > This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) > > %&-line parsing enabled. > > ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/jadetex.fmt was written by pdfetex > > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) This issue seems to have solved itself in the mean time. I can no longer reproduce the error on either of my systems. But... I do have two new issues I'd appreciate your feedback on. Please tell me if you'd prefer bug reports for them. 1. Disappearing top margin If I build in an i386 sid chroot the top margin in PDF disappears, while if I build on an amd64 sid system they are fine. Compare: - http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i_manual/install.en_i386.pdf - http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i_manual/install.en_amd64.pdf The XML source and build scripts are identical in both cases and both systems have the same versions installed for all "*tex*" packages. 2. Building the Russian PDF version of the manual takes ages and shows new and strange messages Compare: - http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i_manual/ru.pdf_etch.log - http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i_manual/ru.pdf_sid.log I've included timings and the commands we run in these logs for your information. As you can see the 'dvipdf' step now takes 8 _minutes_ instead of 20 _seconds_, and the 8 minutes is on a system that is a lot faster! The resulting PDF files are the same in both cases AFAICT. There are also differences in the "warnings" dvipdf produces: - a lot of "page may be too complex to print" warnings - "Checksum mismatch" warnings for fonts that AFAICT are not even installed (nor available in Debian) - the "no %%Page comments generated" which I don't understand at all BTW, if you know of an alternative method to generate PDF files from docbook-xml than we use now (xml->tex->dvi->pdf), I'd be very much interested. Especially if it would support Greek and CJK languages [1]. Cheers, FJP [1] We do actually support Korean ATM, but only by including a custom tex header file and using the latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex and hlatex-fonts-base packages.
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