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  • From: Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] latex missing from texlive
  • Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:33:27 -0400

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:38 AM, flux <flux AT sourcemage.org> wrote:
> Do you mean MkII works fine only with LuaTeX, or it works fine as usual
> when LuaTeX is also installed (along with PDFTeX, XeTeX, etc.)? The
> reliance on LuaTeX sounds quite suspicious, if that's what it is. Ruby
> is of course required (and probably also perl, maybe others), as many of
> the MkII front-end scripts are in ruby.

MkII works fine as usual when LuaTeX is also installed. Its seems it
relies on LuaTeX since texexec is a shell script that calls 'mtxrun
--execute texexec' (a LuaTeX script). Oddly though, 'mtxrun --execute
texexec' executes a ruby file (texexec.rb).

> As for the run-time problems, did you inspect the log files? Perhaps
> they will make the problem clear. Granted, the TeX log files are rather
> cryptic, so if you need help deciphering them let me know.

Good idea, that'll come in handy. Thanks!




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