[tex-live] Location of {TeX,*}.web in TeX Live 2013 ?

[Zdenek Wagner]

2014-05-15 14:16 GMT+02:00 Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:

> Hallo Heiko --
>
>
>  Project `latex-tds' also provides a module `knuth' with
>> PDF documentation files including bookmarks and links:
>>
>>      CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/latex-tds/knuth.tds.zip
>>
>> Perhaps Karl has forgotten to install it?
>>
>
> I don't know; even if it were in my TeX Live 2013, my filename
> search for "TeX.web" | "*.web" would not have found anything
> inside it, since (as far as I know) Windows 7 "Search" does not
> look inside ZIP files by default (it looks inside compressed
> folders, but that is not quite the same thing).
>
>
>  I then tried a search for "filename:tex.web" on the whole of my
>>> TeX Live 2013 installation, and was told "file not found".
>>>
>>
>> Currently the `.web' files are sorted into TDS:source/knuth//
>> However, there they cannot be found, because the search path
>> in texmf.cnf is;
>>
>> WEBINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/web//
>>
>
> No, the setting of "WEBINPUTS" would not be relevant here; it was
> Windows 7 "Search" that I was using, not anything dependent on
> TeX Live, Kpathsea[rch] or similar.  There genuinely appears to
> be no copy of TeX.web in TeX Live 2013 (full install).
>
> I always install scheme-full, I have all versions from 2007 to 2014 and
"find" in Linux says that i do not have tex.web. Thus it is not just a
Windows problem, it is the same in Linux.

>
>  I have now changed the installation directories in module `knuth'
>> and put the `.web' files below TDS:web/knuth//. Now
>> tangle should find `tex.web' and the other `.web' files.
>>
>> A new release of `latex-tds' is anyway scheduled for this afternoon
>> (some minor changes in LaTeX2e/base and tools).
>>
>> Can you check the module `knuth', please?
>>
>>   https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/71873949/tmp/latex-tds/
>> knuth.tds.zip
>>
>> The paths are now correct? Nothing missing?
>>
>
> I cannot swear to either of the latter, but a simple test of "Tangle
> TeX.web" from the TeX Live 2013 command prompt now works, although
> (of course) a naive user of Windows 7 would fail to find the
> resulting output file since the default directory into which the
> TeX Live 2013 command prompt opens is not writeable by mere mortals
> and the results get sent to some concealed location that I cannot
> be bothered to track down ...
>
>  C:\Windows\system32>tangle tex.web
>> This is TANGLE, Version 4.5 (TeX Live 2013/W32TeX)
>> *1*17*25*38*54*72*99*110*115*133*162*173*199*203*207*211*
>> 220*256*268*289*297*300
>> *321*332*366*402*464*487*511*539*583*592*644*680*699*719*
>> 768*813*862*891*900*919
>> *942*967*980*1029*1055*1136*1208*1299*1330*1338*1340*1379*1380
>> Writing the output file.....500.....1000.....1500.....2000.....2500.....
>> 3000....
>> .3500.....4000.....4500.....5000.....5500.....6000.
>> Done.
>> 1044 strings written to string pool file.
>> (No errors were found.)
>>
>> C:\Windows\system32>
>>
>
> To achieve this, I unpacked "knuth.tds.zip" into
> "D:\TeX\Live\texmf-local\web\knuth" (pure conjecture :  how is a TeX Live
> user intended
> to interrogate the system to ask where his/her TeXMF-Local hierarchy
> is rooted ?), tried "Tangle TeX.web" from the TeX Live 2013 command
> prompt, found nothing had changed, used the TeX Live manager in GUI
> mode to rebuild the filename database(s), and finally all worked as
> hoped.
>

Yes, the path in WEBINPUTS is defined with !! which means that the file
names are searched in the database only, not on the disk.

>
> Many thanks, Heiko.
> ** Phil.
>
>


-- 
Zdeněk Wagner
http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
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