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Hi,
there's a problem with the format of the catalogue as shipped with TeX
Live:
Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
> some of the catalogue entries include links to additional documentions
> and the like, but these files do not exist. Often local files are
> referenced while the site says this package is not part of TeX Live, e.g.
> MikTeX.
>
> I've run webcheck on the catalogue to see which files are affected.
>
> % wecheck -o /tmp /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc-en/english/catalogue/index.html
>
> webcheck found more than 6000 bad links.
This is not a Debian-specific problem, it is also present in the normal
TeXlive installation. For example, let's take the alphabetically first
entry, a0poster
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc/doc/english/catalogue/entries/a0poster.html
The first link under "Documentation" looks like this:
<a href="../../../macros/latex/contrib/a0poster/a0_eng.pdf"><img src="../acroread.png" ALT="Documentation">Package documentation (English): a0_eng.pdf.</a>
which is probably correct on CTAN, but should be
- <a href="../../../macros/latex/contrib/a0poster/a0_eng.pdf"><img src="../acroread.png" ALT="Documentation">Package documentation (English): a0_eng.pdf.</a>
+ <a href="../../../../../texmf-dist/doc/latex/a0poster/a0_eng.pdf"><img src="../acroread.png" ALT="Documentation">Package documentation (English): a0_eng.pdf.</a>
So we need to
- go down 5 directories, not three,
- choose between texmf, texmf-dist and texmf-doc
- s/macros/doc/
- s@contrib/@@ (or analogous).
Doesn't look straightforward to fix - any ideas?
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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