[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2014

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2014

[Ken Brown]

Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream 
release, TeX Live 2014.

TeX Live provides a comprehensive, cross-platform TeX system.  It 
includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts 
that are free software, including support for many languages around the 
world.  For more information, see

   http://www.tug.org/texlive/

The TeX Live executables and supporting libraries are contained in the 
following Cygwin packages:

*** texlive-20140523-1

*** libkpathsea6-20140523-1
*** libkpathsea-devel-20140523-1

libkpathsea is a TeX file and path search library.

*** libptexenc1-20140523-1
*** libptexenc-devel-20140523-1

libptexenc is a TeX Unicode encoding library.

*** asymptote-2.32-1

Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for 
technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like 
syntax.  Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality 
typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text.

In addition, upstream TeX Live provides thousands of "packages", grouped 
into "collections".  There is a Cygwin package for each upstream 
collection; there are also Cygwin packages containing documentation for 
some of the collections.

*** texlive-collection-basic-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-basic-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-bibtexextra-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-bibtexextra-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-binextra-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-binextra-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-context-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-context-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-fontsextra-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-fontsextra-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-fontutils-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-fontutils-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-formatsextra-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-games-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-genericextra-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-genericextra-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-genericrecommended-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-genericrecommended-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-htmlxml-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-humanities-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-humanities-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langafrican-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langarabic-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langchinese-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langcjk-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langcyrillic-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langczechslovak-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langenglish-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langeuropean-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langfrench-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langgerman-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langgreek-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langindic-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langitalian-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langjapanese-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langkorean-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langother-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langpolish-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langportuguese-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-langspanish-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-latex-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-latex-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-latexextra-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-latexextra-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-latexrecommended-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-latexrecommended-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-luatex-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-luatex-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-mathextra-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-mathextra-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-metapost-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-metapost-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-music-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-music-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-omega-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-pictures-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-pictures-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-plainextra-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-pstricks-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-pstricks-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-publishers-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-publishers-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-science-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-science-doc-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-xetex-20140523-1
*** texlive-collection-xetex-doc-20140523-1

Recommendations
===============
Most people do not need the full TeX Live installation, which is huge 
and can take hours to install.  If you're not sure what you need, here 
are some possible ways to start:

Minimal: Install texlive and its dependencies.  This provides plain TeX 
but not LaTeX.

Small: Install texlive-collection-latex and its dependencies.  This is a 
minimal installation with LaTeX.

Standard: Install texlive-collection-latexrecommended and its 
dependencies.  This provides the most commonly used non-graphics LaTeX 
packages.  Install texlive-collection-pictures if you want the standard 
graphics packages too.

If you find you need more, consider installing the following packages:

* texlive-collection-bibtexextra
* texlive-collection-binextra
* texlive-collection-fontsextra
* texlive-collection-formatsextra
* texlive-collection-genericextra
* texlive-collection-latexextra
* texlive-collection-mathextra

Postinstall scripts
===================
Many of the texlive-collection-* packages have time-consuming 
postinstall scripts, especially if they have to install fonts or 
formats.  Please be patient, and don't assume that the scripts or setup 
have hung.

Fontconfig
==========
Because of a change in fontconfig-2.11.1-1, applications like XeTeX that 
use fontconfig may not be able to find some of the fonts distributed 
with TeX Live.  See

    https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-05/msg00018.html

As a workaround until this is fixed, edit the file /etc/fonts/fonts.conf 
and add the following three lines to the "Font directory list" section:

	<dir>/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype</dir>
	<dir>/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype</dir>
	<dir>/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1</dir>

CJK collections
===============
The langchinese, langjapanese, and langkorean collections are new with 
TeX Live 2014; they contain most of what used to be in langcjk.  If you 
need one or more of these new collections, you will need to choose them 
explicitly when you run setup.

If you have previously installed texlive-collection-langcjk, then 
/etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg probably contains some lines involving Kanji 
font maps that won't be treated properly by the 
texlive-collection-langcjk preremove script.  I recommend that you 
simply remove all lines containing the string "KanjiMap" from that file 
before updating your TeX Live installation.

Nothing bad will happen if you don't do this, but the postinstall 
scripts will generate lots of spurious error messages.  You can always 
delete those lines later if you don't have a need for Kanji fonts.  If 
you do want to use Kanji fonts, install texlive-collection-langjapanese, 
whose postinstall/preremove scripts should deal properly with Kanji font 
maps from now on.

New formats
===========
TeX Live 2014 has introduced several new formats.  To accommodate these, 
the postinstall scripts will recreate the file 
/etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf.  Barring a mistake on my part, this should 
not cause any problem unless you have introduced custom formats.  In 
that case, you will have to recreate those formats; your previous 
fmtutil.cnf will be renamed as fmtutil.cnf.bak to help you do that.

Ken Brown
Cygwin's TeX Live maintainer

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2014

[Marco Atzeri]

On 02/07/2014 01:16, Ken Brown wrote:
> Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream
> release, TeX Live 2014.

Question:
is python3 really a requirement ?

Regards
Marco

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2014

[Ken Brown]

On 7/3/2014 4:49 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 02/07/2014 01:16, Ken Brown wrote:
>> Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream
>> release, TeX Live 2014.
>
> Question:
> is python3 really a requirement ?

I relied on cygport for the requirements, and it found python3 as a 
requirement for seven of the collections.  I've taken a quick look at a 
couple of them, and I suspect that python3 shouldn't really be required. 
  But I'm not sure it's worth the trouble to go carefully through all 
seven to be sure.

Ken

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2014

[Marco Atzeri]

On 04/07/2014 03:34, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 7/3/2014 4:49 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 02/07/2014 01:16, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream
>>> release, TeX Live 2014.
>>
>> Question:
>> is python3 really a requirement ?
>
> I relied on cygport for the requirements, and it found python3 as a
> requirement for seven of the collections.  I've taken a quick look at a
> couple of them, and I suspect that python3 shouldn't really be required.
>   But I'm not sure it's worth the trouble to go carefully through all
> seven to be sure.
>
> Ken

I suggest to review the requirements
currently on cygwin64 texlive is pulling both python and python3

I have strong doubts about both, and I do't see why texlive
should require numpy

This is coming from my last setup run

python-chardet	(2.0.1-2)
	Python character encoding detection library
	Required by: python-pygments

python-imaging	(1.1.7-5)
	Python Imaging Library
	Required by: python-pygments

python-pygments	(1.5-2)
	Python syntax highlighting module
	Required by: texlive-collection-binextra

python3	(3.2.5-3)
	Py3K language interpreter
	Required by: texlive-collection-binextra, texlive-collection-mathextra, 
texlive-collection-pictures, python3-numpy, python3-tkinter, 
python3-setuptools

python3-numpy	(1.7.2-1)
	Py3K scientific computing module
	Required by: texlive-collection-pictures

python3-setuptools	(0.6.34-1)
	Py3K package management tool
	Required by: python3-numpy

python3-tkinter	(3.2.5-3)
	Py3K Tkinter GUI module
	Required by: python3

Marco

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2014

[Ken Brown]

On 7/6/2014 3:29 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>
>
> On 04/07/2014 03:34, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 7/3/2014 4:49 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>> On 02/07/2014 01:16, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>> Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream
>>>> release, TeX Live 2014.
>>>
>>> Question:
>>> is python3 really a requirement ?
>>
>> I relied on cygport for the requirements, and it found python3 as a
>> requirement for seven of the collections.  I've taken a quick look at a
>> couple of them, and I suspect that python3 shouldn't really be required.
>>   But I'm not sure it's worth the trouble to go carefully through all
>> seven to be sure.
>>
>> Ken
>
> I suggest to review the requirements
> currently on cygwin64 texlive is pulling both python and python3

All of the python3 requirements are bogus, and I'll remove them.  But 
TeX Live contains many python scripts, so certainly some of the packages 
should and do require python.

> I have strong doubts about both, and I do't see why texlive
> should require numpy

See /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/pgfplots/pgfplots.py (from 
texlive-collection-pictures).

Ken

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