Re: Some really unimportant bits

Thomas Esser <[email protected]> wrote:

>> - the cont-en link is no longer created - why?
>
> While it is true teTeX sets up a format named cont-en by default, you are
> not supposed to run it without command line parameters. To get the sizes
> of some memory arrays right, you have to specify -progname=context. Next,
> you also have to specify -efmt=cont-en (otherwise context.efmt will be
> used). So, people should use texexec to use a context format, since this
> offers all the bells and whistles...

O.k., thank you.

>> no manpage for dvipdft
>> no manpage for ebb
>
> Both are part of dvipdfm. No manpage, sorry.

I have attached two fast written attempts.

>> no manpage for fdf2tan
>> no manpage for texfind
>> no manpage for makempy
>> no manpage for mptopdf
>> no manpage for texfont
>
> Wrappers for context modules... I have never seen manpages for those. But,
> I am sure that Hans has documentation for those in pdf.

I'm working on this - thanks for pointing me to Tobias Burnus -, and
have also contacted Hans.

>> no manpage for xdvi-xaw.bin
>
> That's just the name of the xdvi binary (xdvi itself is just a wrapper
> script to call it).

Ah, I should have read the output I generated. Of course. 

>> In Debian, we have Manpages for 
>> 
>> $ ls new-manpages
>> mkocp.1  mkofm.1  ofm2opl.1  opl2ofm.1  otp2ocp.1  outocp.1  ovf2ovp.1  ovp2ovf.1  ttf2afm.1
>
> Can you send those over, please?

Also attached. I haven't written or checked them, and they may be
outdated.

We also have a small C program, texdoctk-warn, that can be used to
display messages under X, without relying on xmessage or similar
stuff. xmessage is in an separate, optional package in Debian, not in
the x-base packages. The teTeX packages don't strictly depend on perl-tk
in Debian, but only recommend it, and we use texdoctk-warn to warn a
user who starts texdoctk if perl-tk is not installed, and if there's no
controlling terminal (i.e. he started texdoctk from the menus). I guess
we're going to rename it, because the same applies for texfind, but in
case you're interested, I also attach the manpage. The patch for
texdoctk is going to be approximately the following:

@@ -9,10 +7,30 @@
 # disclaimer.
 ###############################################################################
 use strict;
-use Tk;
+use File::Basename;
 use Getopt::Long;
 Getopt::Long::config('bundling');
 
+BEGIN {
+    eval { require Tk; import Tk; };
+    if ($@) {
+       my $progname = basename($0);
+       my $message;
+       if ($@ =~ /^Can\'t locate Tk\.pm/) {
+           $message = "$progname: you must have the perl-tk package installed\nto use this script\n";
+       } else {
+           $message = "$progname: problem loading the Tk module:\n  $@\nHave you installed the perl-tk pack
age?\n";
+       }
+
+       if (! -t STDOUT and exists $ENV{DISPLAY})
+       {
+           exec("texdoctk-warn", $message);
+       } else {
+           die $message;
+       }
+    }
+}
+
 my $IsWin32 = ($^O =~ /MSWin32/i);
 
 #if ($IsWin32) {


Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie

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.TH "dvipdft" "1" "May 2004" "teTeX" "teTeX" 
.PP 
.SH "NAME" 
dvipdft \- create thumbnail images for use with dvipdfm
.PP 
.SH "SYNOPSIS" 
.PP 
\fBdvipdft\fP  [ \fI DVIPDFM-OPTIONS\fP \&.\&.\&.  ] \fI filename.dvi\fP
.PP 
.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
.PP 
\fBdvipdft\fP creates thumbnail pictures of the pages in your file
and subsequently runs dvipdfm to create a PDF file with these
thumbnails. 
.PP
.SH "OPTIONS" 
.HP
All options are simply handed on to dvipdfm
.HP
.SH "SEE ALSO" 
.IP 
\fBdvipdfm\fP(1)
.PP 
.SH "BUGS" 
.PP 
None known\&.
.PP 
.SH "AUTHOR" 
.PP 
\fBdvipdft\fP was written by Mark A. Wicks and Thomas Esser.
.PP 
This manual page was written by Frank Küster
<frank@kuesterei\&.ch>, for
the Debian GNU/Linux system\&.  It may be used by other distributions
without contacting the author\&.  Any mistakes or omissions in the
manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this
manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author)\&.

.TH "ebb" "1" "May 2004" "teTeX" "teTeX" 
.PP 
.SH "NAME" 
ebb \- extract a bounding box from JPEG, PNG, and PDF files
.PP 
.SH "SYNOPSIS" 
.PP 
\fBebb\fP  [ \fI -v\fP | \fI-b\fP  ] \fI graphic_file\fP
.PP 
.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
.PP 
\fBebb\fP extracts the bounding box from JPEG, PNG, and PDF files
(with lower- or uppercase extensions) and writes it into a file with
the extension \fB.bb\fP, together with some header information. These
files can then be used by \fBdvipdfm\fP or other programs.
.PP
.SH "OPTIONS" 
.HP
\fB\-v\fR : be verbose
.HP
\fB\-b\fR : Write .bb file in binary mode
.HP
.SH "BUGS" 
.PP 
I cannot find a difference between binary and standard .bb files\&.
.PP 
.SH "AUTHOR" 
.PP 
\fBebb\fP was written by Mark A. Wicks.
.PP 
This manual page was written by Frank Küster
<frank@kuesterei\&.ch>, for
the Debian GNU/Linux system\&.  It may be used by other distributions
without contacting the author\&.  Any mistakes or omissions in the
manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this
manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author)\&.

.TH "texdoctk-warn" "1" "April 2004" "teTeX" "teTeX" 
.PP 
.SH "NAME" 
texdoctk-warn \- warn if a needed file is missing.
.PP 
.SH "SYNOPSIS" 
.PP 
\fBtexdoctk-warn\fP "message"
.PP 
.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
.PP 
\fBtexdoctk-warn\fP takes its single argument and displays it in an X
window, using only libxaw and the basic Xlibs. You don't even need to
rely on xmessage from the xbase-clients package to be installed.

.PP 
.SH "BUGS" 
.PP 
None known\&.
.PP 
.SH "AUTHOR" 
.PP 
Stefan Ulrich <[email protected]> and Hilmar Preusse <[email protected]>\&.
.PP 
This manual page was written by Frank Küster
<frank@kuesterei\&.ch>, for
the Debian GNU/Linux system\&.  It may be used by other distributions
without contacting the author\&.  Any mistakes or omissions in the
manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this
manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author)\&.