[OS X TeX] A go at TL 2004

[Gerben Wierda]

On 29 Oct 2004, at 09:46, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 29 oct. 04, à 02:46, Bruno Voisin a écrit :
>
>> - As far as I remember, the default selection of hyphenation files 
>> was US English, French, German (both old and new spelling) and No 
>> Hyphen in TL 2003, no more. I seems now almost every hyphenation 
>> pattern is selected by default (in the Configure stage).
>
> It turns out pressing the "Reset" button at this stage cures this: the 
> choice of patterns is reset to the default of US English, French, 
> German (both spellings) and No Hyphen. Still, I don't understand why 
> most patterns had been selected before that, as I had just uninstalled 
> everything beforehand, precisely to start with as vanilla a 
> configuration as possible.

This is what TeX Live has standard. I just follow that. But given the 
problems, I might move to a limited setup of my own.

>> - For those patterns that are not (related to languages that seem to 
>> have several possible patterns), I got strange warnings (I  did no 
>> configuration at this stage, just let the default selection of 
>> patterns alone -- apart from adding British English -- and 
>> proceeded):
>>
>>> ### tex.configure: Language norsk already activated. Will not enable 
>>> two hyphenation patterns for one language. Make sure only one 
>>> hyphenation pattern is selected for each language
>>> ### tex.configure: Language ukrainian already activated. Will not 
>>> enable two hyphenation patterns for one language. Make sure only one 
>>> hyphenation pattern is selected for each language
>>> ### tex.configure: Language ukrainian already activated. Will not 
>>> enable two hyphenation patterns for one language. Make sure only one 
>>> hyphenation pattern is selected for each language
>>> ### tex.configure: Language ukrainian already activated. Will not 
>>> enable two hyphenation patterns for one language. Make sure only one 
>>> hyphenation pattern is selected for each language
>>> ### tex.configure: Your mk4ht script differs from the one I carry as 
>>> a possible update. I cannot detect which one is newer, but if you 
>>> have problems you can try to remove 
>>> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/mk4ht and re-run 
>>> this configuration script. My version will then be installed.
>
> Does not happen any more, after doing the above.
>
>> - While installing XeTeX eventually, it turns out the XeLaTeX format 
>> cannot be generated, yielding errors of the form (these are not shown 
>> by default, you have to select the "Subprocess Output" tab to see 
>> them):
>>
>>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/generic/hyphen/gahyph.tex
>>> Hyphenation patterns `gahyph.tex' Version 1.0 <2004/01/22>
>>> ! Not a letter.
>>> l.6089 bhrachta뉭
>>>                   brachta뉣hਮt뉧cਮt뉣heilt뉧ceilt뉣hist뉧cist뉣ho...
>>>
>>> ?
>>> ! Emergency stop.
>>> l.6089 bhrachta뉭
>>>                   brachta뉣hਮt뉧cਮt뉣heilt뉧ceilt뉣hist뉧cist뉣ho...
>>>
>>> No pages of output.
>>> Transcript written on xelatex.log.
>
> Does not happen any more, for the same reason.
>
> Bruno Voisin
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