[texhax] help

Varaprasad, PrakashRao P.Varaprasad at spi-global.com
Fri Nov 23 06:32:19 CET 2018


Hi,

I hope it will be good if we have common LaTeX setup for all the users who are using LaTeX for typesetting.

And we have so many softwares available, and some of them are OS related as well.

1. TeXLive 
2. ProTeXt
3. MacTeX
4. MikTeX

And MacTeX will work for Mac machines, and TeXLiVe will have separate setups for Unix/Linux and Windows.

Just feeling sad that the input will be varying from each and every author as per their available softwares and coding.

It will be good if we have a common setup which will be used for all OS instead of having separate setups like in 3B2, Indesign(will have the version updates only).

Thanks
Prasad

-----Original Message-----
From: texhax [mailto:texhax-bounces+p.varaprasad=spi-global.com at tug.org] On Behalf Of Lars Madsen
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2018 5:11 PM
To: James Diamond; texhax at tug.org
Subject: Re: [texhax] help

ahh, did not notice sam2p wasn't available directly on 18.04

In that case I agree, it might be something TeXLive should look into, and apparently maintained sources are available.


/Lars Madsen
Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@math / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@math


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From: texhax <texhax-bounces+daleif=imf.au.dk at tug.org> on behalf of James Diamond <jim.diamond at acadiau.ca>
Sent: 22 November 2018 00:02
To: texhax at tug.org
Subject: Re: [texhax] help

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 16:10 (-0600), Axel E. Retif wrote:

> On 11/21/18 7:32 AM, Lars Madsen wrote:

>>> Does anyone know why sam2p is not provided in texlive for Linux?

>> that was already mentioned,

I missed that somewhere.  (Mea culpa?)

>> it already comes separately for Linux as it is useful for everyone, 
>> not just TeXLive users.  So there is no need to provide it twice.

Well, aside from what Axel says, it probably requires Linux users to go out, hunt it down, compile it, yada yada yada (I'm guessing it isn't part of the base installation of many/most Linux distros).  While many Linux users are capable of doing those tasks,
(a) some might not be,
(b) on Linux distros that don't include development tools in the base
    installation, that could be a big job, and
(c) an inquisitive texlive user might peruse the programs available in
    texlive and discover sam2p, but otherwise might never know of its
    existence.


> I can't find it in Ubuntu (Debian) repositories, and from

> https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article143/removing-sam2p-from-debian

> -----
>               Issues with sam2p and removal

> I have been maintaining the Debian package of sam2p for some time.
> Unfortunately, the upstream development of that program is no longer 
> active, and it is using an old custom build chain that no longer works 
> with recent version of GCC.

> This package is currently failing to build from source, and while I 
> have been able to patch some issues in the past, and it may still be 
> possible to fix it again, this is not really sustainable.

<snip>

I d/l'ed the most recent sources today and compiled it without a hitch.  It is being maintained.  I'm not sure what the quoted blogger is going on about.  (Caveat: I just compiled it on Slackware.  Perhaps trying to make a .deb on a debian system is far more difficult and error-prone than what I did.)

Cheers

                                Jim

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