[tex-live] TL7: MonTeX problems on Linux

[Janusz S. Bień]

As usual, I set up TL7 to run directly from CD (image). I use Debian
Woody.

Problem 1:

MonTeX from TexLive7 (image texlive7-20020604-cd1) does not work. When
I tried to view

        texmf/doc/latex/montex/montex.dvi

I got the following log

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[...]

(/tl7b/texmf/fonts/source/public/manjutex/mbparmb.mf)
>> LR
>> true
! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=boolean).

[...]

! Emergency stop.
<*> ... mag:=1+264/600; nonstopmode; input bicighm

[...]

xdvi.bin: Not all pixel files were found

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Problem 2:

MonTeX (Implementation Level IIa, 02.03 dated February 1999) on
TeXLive 7 is obsolete, the current release available on CTAN CDs is
Implementation Level IV dated December 2001.

Problem 3:

The obvious solution to the previous problems is to place the recent
version earlier in the search path, so I have unpacked the recent
version as shown in the enclosed ls-R file. Although kpsewhich located
the new files correctly, elatex and pdfelatex ignore them. Here are
the exhibits:

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texlive@galicja:~/montex-tl7/doc$ kpsewhich --show-path=tex
.:/home/texlive/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/var/tmp/tl7b/texmf-var/tex/generic//:/tl7b/texmf-local/tex/generic//:!!/tl7b/texmf/tex/generic//:/home/texlive/texmf/tex///:!!/var/tmp/tl7b/texmf-var/tex///:/tl7b/texmf-local/tex///:!!/tl7b/texmf/tex///

[...]

texlive@galicja:~/montex-tl7/doc$ kpsewhich mlstrans.tex
/home/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/montex/mlstrans.tex
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This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x)
entering extended mode
(./montex.tex

[...]

 (/tl7b/texmf/tex/latex/ctib/ctib.tex)) (/tl7b/texmf/tex/latex/montex/mls.sty
(/tl7b/texmf/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)
(/tl7b/texmf/tex/latex/montex/mlstrans.tex)

[...]

) (/home/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/montex/mtdocmac.tex
! You can't use `\relax' after \the.
<recently read> \c@GreekGammaAvailable 
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This happen independently whether there is the ls-R file in
/home/texlive/texmf or not.

Best regards

Janusz




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dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW
Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
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