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April 2005 - Posts

Default language issue

The current MiKTeX setup uses ushyph.tex as the default hyphenation table. This is not strictly a bug. But it can lead to different line breaks (in comparison to other TeX systems). Therefore I will change language.dat as follows:< english ushyph.tex---> Read More
posted Saturday, April 30, 2005 9:50 AM by CSchenk | (Comments Off)
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MetaPost 0.9

Today the MetaPost team has announced MetaPost 0.9. I am currently downloading the tar file. Tomorrow I will take a look at the source code. If possible, I will make available binaries for MiKTeX 2.4. We shall see... Read More
posted Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:36 AM by CSchenk | (Comments Off)
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ltxdoc.cfg

The packages captcont, subfigure and subfig all contain the file ltxdoc.cfg in the input directory (e.g., C:\texmf\tex\latex\captcont). That will be corrected with the next update, i.e., ltxdoc.cfg will be moved into the source directory. Read More
posted Wednesday, April 20, 2005 2:07 AM by CSchenk | (Comments Off)
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lm fonts / updmap.cfg

Besides the old lm fonts version, there is another bug: updmap.cfg doesn't contain an entry for the new font mapping file lm.map. Read More
posted Monday, April 11, 2005 11:09 AM by CSchenk | (Comments Off)
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Problem with lm fonts

Today's update delivers version 0.98.2 of the lm fonts. That's a mistake. My intent was to distribute 0.98.3 (the current CTAN version). I will correct this tomorrow. Read More
posted Monday, April 11, 2005 7:45 AM by CSchenk | (Comments Off)
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MiKTeX 2.5 development has started

MiKTeX 2.5 developmet has started in December. According to the roadmap, the first step is to redesign the internal interfaces (aka refactoring). The outcome will be a portable set of components. Portable in the sense that it will be easy to build the Read More
posted Saturday, April 09, 2005 11:48 AM by CSchenk | 4 Comments
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Starting mgs.exe at the DOS-Prompt

Every once in a while I receive the following request: "Please, make mgs.exe runnable at the DOS-prompt". You should know that mgs.exe is a special version of Ghostscript, meant to be called internally by MiKTeX applications (such as Yap). If you start Read More
posted Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:00 AM by CSchenk | (Comments Off)
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Next update on April 11

There are quite a few packages ready for deployment. And some more packages need to be prepared. I am planning to upload the batch on Monday. Read More
posted Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:29 AM by CSchenk | (Comments Off)
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Guess what?

I'm blogging now! Read More
posted Wednesday, April 06, 2005 10:26 AM by CSchenk | (Comments Off)
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