jfontmaps release 20150923.0
After a year without a release we finally pushed out a new version of the Japanese font maps. The main addition is support for the fonts shipped in the upcoming El Capitan OSX release,...
Tagged: TeX Live
Debian/TeX Live 2015.20150917-1
Usual regular update of the TeX Live packages. Now that Debian/unstable is back to full development speed thanks to the end of the bit gcc transition, probably this TeX Live update will be lost...
Debian/TeX Live complete update
Triggered by all the bugs around I spent my weekend instead of mountaineering with crawling through the TeX Live history for changes and fixes to dvipdfm-x. Thanks to 角藤さん for his hints, I have...
Debian/TeX Live 2015.20150810-1
For those who are starving for some updates while the big gcc5 transitions brings the rest of Debian/sid to a halt, here is some fresh meat, a new TeX Live checkout. Nothing spectacular new...
Debian/TeX Live 2015.20150703-1
The first upload of new packages after . Against my expectations, the bugs didn’t come in in the thousands, more or less there were only some fixes necessary in the binary package, which lead...
An amusing lintian error — Lenna
Well, there we are, trying to build another round of TeX Live packages for Debian, just to realize that the lintian error that should have been downgraded to warning (or removed) is still around,...
TeX Live 2015 hits Debian/unstable
Here we go, I just uploaded 15 packages to the Debian archive that brings TeX Live in Debian up to the 2015 release (and a bit newer)! Uploaded packages are asymptote, biber, context, context-modules,...
TeX Live Manager News June 2015
has been released, and normal operation with daily updates has started. During the freeze time and afterwards I have made a few changes to the TeX Live Manager (tlmgr) that I want to highlight...
TeX Live 2015 released
After long time of waiting we finally released TeX Live 2015. Get some champagne, and ready to party! Get it via downloading the net-installer, by obtaining a DVD, or downloading the iso. Besides the...
Debian/TeX Live 2015 – the new layout
While updating the TeX Live package for Debian for the upcoming 2015 release, one of my aims was to convert as much as possible of the TeX configuration infrastructure to use dpkg triggers. We...
Debian/TeX Live 2015 preparations
I have uploaded a preliminary version of the texlive-bin based on the 2015 sources (plus the first fixes) to the Debian archive, targeting experimental. As there are four new packages built from the sources...
TeX Live 2015 DVD preparation starts
As the last step in the preparation of the TeX Live 2015 release we have now completely frozen updates to the repository and built the (hopefully) final image. The following weeks will see more...
TeX Live, TeXPortal and Open Source
I recently was made aware by a very positive review of TeXPortal, a TeX Live system compiled for Android and available in the Google App Store. This is more or less a TeX Live...
Setting up CJK fonts for GhostScript
After long discussions on the MacTeX mailing list, and thanks to much work of many contributors, I can finally announce the CJK font integration script for GhostScript. While far from perfect, especially because GhostScript...
TeX Live: the new multi fmtutil
Some time ago I posted a few articles on internals of TeX Live, which might be of interest for the general user, too: and . With and the pretest for 2015 about to start,...
