Your message dated Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:31:12 +0200 with message-id <[🔎] 87sl6ubcf3.fsf@florent.maison> has caused the Debian Bug report #435132, regarding texlive-metapost: Please include latest latexmp version to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s) texlive@tug.org. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database)
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- To: texlive@tug.org
- Cc: 435132@bugs.debian.org, 435132-forwarded@bugs.debian.org, Dylan Thurston <dthurston@barnard.edu>
- Subject: Re: Bug#435132: texlive-metapost: Please include latest latexmp version
- From: Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>
- Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:31:12 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87sl6ubcf3.fsf@florent.maison>
- Mail-followup-to: texlive@tug.org, 435132@bugs.debian.org, 435132-forwarded@bugs.debian.org, Dylan Thurston <dthurston@barnard.edu>
- In-reply-to: <20070729130515.13667.87965.reportbug@amaryllis.bostoncoop.net> (Dylan Thurston's message of "Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:05:15 +0800")
- References: <20070729130515.13667.87965.reportbug@amaryllis.bostoncoop.net>
Dear TeX Live maintainers, We have here a request in the Debian BTS to update the version of latexmp as shipped in TL. Could anyone take care of this? Dylan Thurston <dthurston@barnard.edu> wrote: > The version of latexmp included with texlive-metapost, version 1.1.0, > is very outdated. The current version is 1.2.1, released on 7 Apr > 2005. > > One improvement (fixing what I would consider a minor bug) is that it > handles the origin relative to the bounding box better: by default it > now places the origin where btex..etex would, rather than at the > center of the bounding box. The 1.1.0 behaviour (center of the > bounding box) loses information and makes it very difficult to line up > different textext strings. TIA, -- Florent
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