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Re: [pdftex] Possible bug in pdftexinfo.tex
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Prof Brian Ripley |
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Re: [pdftex] Possible bug in pdftexinfo.tex |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:27:40 +0000 (GMT) |
> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:45:36 +0200 (IST)
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
> > My belief is that you should just use the texinfo.tex from the texinfo 4.0
> > distribution (or later), and use texi2dvi --pdf. That works fine for me
> > on Unix: it does not work on Windows but calling the components directly
> > does.
>
> Why doesn't "texi2dvi --pdf" work on Windows, and what Windows port of
> the related packages (Texinfo, TeX, and PDFTeX) do you have installed?
I am using fptex, plus texinfo I compiled from the sources when
fptex's was incomplete.
texi2dvi uses shell features that the sh I use (cygwin) barfs on,
I think quoting issues. But the general issue is
texi2dvi is an sh script.
Windows does not supply sh.
--
Brian D. Ripley, address@hidden
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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