Using texi2pdf

Using texi2pdf

[Andreas Falkenhahn]

Hi,

I just tried to use texi2pdf on Cygwin but it doesn't seem to work right. There's a certain
amount of program activity but no PDF is generated. Here's the verbose log:

$ texi2pdf --verbose testfile.texi
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Processing testfile.texi ...
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: BIBINPUTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: BSTINPUTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: DVIPSHEADERS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: INDEXSTYLE='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: MFINPUTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: MPINPUTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: TEXINPUTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: TFMFONTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Removing /home/Andreas/testfile.t2d

Does anybody know why this doesn't work as it should?

Tks,

Andreas


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Re: Using texi2pdf

[Rolf Dieterich]

Andreas Falkenhahn <andreas@falkenhahn.com> hat am 21.10.2011 um 21:54
Uhr geschrieben:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just tried to use texi2pdf on Cygwin but it doesn't seem to work right. There's a certain
> amount of program activity but no PDF is generated. Here's the verbose log:
> 
> $ texi2pdf --verbose testfile.texi
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Processing testfile.texi ...
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: BIBINPUTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: BSTINPUTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: DVIPSHEADERS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: INDEXSTYLE='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: MFINPUTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: MPINPUTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: TEXINPUTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: TFMFONTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Removing /home/Andreas/testfile.t2d
> 
> Does anybody know why this doesn't work as it should?
> 
> Tks,
> 
> Andreas

Hi Andreas,

I happened to generate some texinfo manuals in pdf format lately. For me
it is working:

$ texi2pdf --verbose gccintro.texi
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Processing gccintro.texi ...
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
BIBINPUTS='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
BSTINPUTS='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
DVIPSHEADERS='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
INDEXSTYLE='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
MFINPUTS='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
MPINPUTS='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
TEXINPUTS='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
TFMFONTS='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex preloaded as `', version is `20110923' ...
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Cycle 1 for ./gccintro.texi
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Backing up xref files: gccintro.aux
gccintro.cp
gccintro.cps
gccintro.toc
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Running texindex gccintro.cp
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Running pdfetex --file-line-error
'./gccintro.texi' ...
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
[...]

But I have Tex Live 2011 installed. So I don't use tetex 3.0 from the
official Cygwin distribution:

$ kpsewhich texinfo.tex
/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex

First check if you have the texinfo format installed:

$ cygcheck -f /usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
tetex-base-3.0.0-3
texinfo-4.13-3

Then check if you have the tex engines installed, e.g. pdftex:

$ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/pdftex
tetex-bin-3.0.0-3

My tetex installation seems to be incomplete:

$ cygcheck -c tetex-bin
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
tetex-bin            3.0.0-3        Incomplete

But as I mentioned I don't use tetex anyway.

Summary:
texi2pdf and texi2dvi are bash scripts which need texinfo.tex (a TeX
format) an underlying tex engine.
I don't know if the rather ancient tetex distribution in Cygwin is
sufficient to do the job.

-- Rolf


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Re: Using texi2pdf

[Andreas Falkenhahn]

On 23.10.2011 at 09:05 Rolf Dieterich wrote:

>Hi Andreas,
>
>I happened to generate some texinfo manuals in pdf format lately. For me
>it is working:
>
>[...]
>
>But I have Tex Live 2011 installed. So I don't use tetex 3.0 from the
>official Cygwin distribution:

Thanks for the hint! I uninstalled tetex and use Texlive instead.
This is working fine now! According to this page
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/LatexInstallation#Cygwin
the tetex distribution is outdated anyway.

Greets,

Andreas


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