New Debian TeX Live upload
Today I have uploaded a new release of Debian TeX Live. The current release is based on TeX Live’s tlnet as of 2013-09-05, and the Debian release is 2013.20130905-1. Besides the usual bunch of...
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Biber and BibLaTeX in Debian (and Open Source)
Finally after long time Debian got an uptodate release of Biber. Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX. In recent times, including the last release of Debian (wheezy) the Biber program is...
Debian TeX Live binaries updated to 2013.20130722.31261-1
As mentioned in the previous , I have now also uploaded a new version of texlive-bin, based on svn branch branch2013 in the TeX Live svn repository. This includes the following changes from upstream...
Debian TeX Live release 2013.20130722-1
Yesterday I have uploaded a set of new packages for TeX Live to the Debian archive. The release is based on the tlnet checkout from 2013-07-22. Version number is 2013.20130722-1. This is the first...
Internals of TeX Live 2: multi-updmap
As a follow-up on a previous post on , today something that is not so internal, but still something that hasn’t found wide knowledge: The new operation mode of updmap: reading all updmap.cfg files.
Internals of TeX Live 1: stacked versus non-stacked files, texmf.cnf adaptions
I thought about writing a series of entries about internals of the TeX Live ecosystem. Background is that there is a big need for packaging TeX Live for Distributions. I gave a talk on...
TeX Live 2013 released
In the last hours Karl Berry has finally put the release 2013 of TeX Live online. That means that new installations from tlnet will use the 2013 package base. But be warned, mirror updates...
TeX Live 2013 for Debian
I am currently preparing a new upload of TeX Live 2013 (prerelease) for Debian. This will bring several new changes to the Debian layout, following upstream changes: texlive-doc-? packages will disappear, the contents is...
ptex2pdf release 0.4
I have just uploaded ptex2pdf to CTAN, and it should be in tomorrow’s tlpretest. Changes came from a problematic case I had to solve for a colleague: quote the filename so that special chars...
ptex2pdf release 0.3
Yesterday I have uploaded ptex2pdf to CTAN, and it is already in today’s tlpretest. Changes are minimal: fix for the program when ptex2pdf is called with -u -e include the README into the source...
Setting up kanji embedding in TeX Live
Together with Hironori Kitagawa (北川 弘典) we finally updated the instruction on kanji embedding based on jfontmaps. The page is located at http://tug.org/texlive/updmap-kanji.html and describes the status of the upcoming TeX Live 2013 release....
jfontmaps release 20130418.0
This is a bug fix release: Fix for kanji-config-updmap-sys to call the right script fix for replacement setup for new families fix for wrong msgothic file name generate changelog from git For more details...
tlmgr user mode
Starting from tomorrow, tlpretest will contain an extension to the TeX Live Manager called User Mode. This one probably one of the most asked features in recent times, that one can use tlmgr to...
jfontmaps release 20130410.0
After quite some time of development today I uploaded jfontmaps release 20130410.0 to the CTAN servers. This release finally brings a working support for JIS2004 glyph shapes.
TeX Live development: svn and git
TeX Live development has a long history. First we were using perforce for a long time, after which we changed to subversion which is still the main development platform and the main central repository....
