[tex-live] tex-live-20020403.iso image

Daniel Flipo Daniel.Flipo@univ-lille1.fr
Fri, 05 Apr 2002 14:46:30 +0200


Some comments on the new image Sebastian has uploaded to
http://iwww.tug.org/texlive/tlprod/Images/texlive-20020403.iso.bz2

It expands to an iso image of 647 Mb, fine!

1) The texmf.cnf file seems to have the same bug as last year's TL6b:
the array sizes for the latex format are bigger than those of
the huge latex format (one spurious '0' added).

The sizes for *all* formats should be checked by experts, I have
no idea of the correct values, but there seem to be inconsistencies,
also for instance in the tex/hugetex formats:

% default is a huge tex		% redundant. all TeX is now huge
main_memory = 1500000		main_memory.hugetex = 1100000
param_size= 1500		param_size.hugetex = 1500
stack_size= 1500		stack_size.hugetex = 1500
hash_extra= 5000		hash_extra.hugetex = 15000
string_vacancies= 4500		string_vacancies.hugetex = 45000
pool_free= 4750			pool_free.hugetex = 47500
nest_size= 500			nest_size.hugetex = 500
save_size= 5000			save_size.hugetex = 5000
pool_size= 5000			pool_size.hugetex = 500000
max_strings= 65000		max_strings.hugetex = 55000

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2) Dependencies in the RDF database

a) ConTeXt needs etex, the collection tex-etex (as well as tex-pdftex)
   is required in texmf/tpm/collections/tex-context.tpm, but still,
   if you select the context collection but not the etex collection,
   you end up with no conTeXt format:
   `pdfetex -ini -efmt=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini' failed
   The format is properly built if you select `context' AND `etex'.

b) Something just for tex-langfrench: the collection tex-langfrench
   requires the package 'aeguill' (good), but aeguill builds its
   default guillemets for French from Polish fonts, which are not 
   required by aeguill.tpm :-(
   The exact stuff which should be required is
   texmf/tex/latex/platex/ot4cmr.fd
   texmf/fonts/tfm/public/pl
   texmf/fonts/type1/public/pl

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3) the directory 'man' is missing at the top level of the new 
   CD's image (it was there in the 20020401 image).
   'man' is required by the tex-documentation collection.

Anyway, apart from these details, this new TeXLive runs fine
on my machine (as did the previous ones ;-), thanks for the great job!

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