[arch-general] Texlive package install
Dear list, I use Texlive + Texmaker to write some documents. I can't find an easy and solid way to install new packages from CTAN.Package tlmgr from AUR couldn't compil on my box and will not do the job.Installing manually new packages doesn't seem to be a good idea and is not very straightforward. Thank you for any advice.
Hello, ** Arno Gaboury [2012-07-31 10:23:15 +0200]:
Dear list,
I use Texlive + Texmaker to write some documents. I can't find an easy and solid way to install new packages from CTAN.Package tlmgr from AUR couldn't compil on my box and will not do the job.Installing manually new packages doesn't seem to be a good idea and is not very straightforward.
Thank you for any advice.
Just two question: 1. did you read the Wiki? [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Texlive]] 2. what package are you wanted to install? --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov -- In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forest ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. -- S.T. Coleridge, "Kubla Kahn"
On 03/08/12||11:06, Vladimir Lomov wrote:
Hello, ** Arno Gaboury [2012-07-31 10:23:15 +0200]:
Dear list,
I use Texlive + Texmaker to write some documents. I can't find an easy and solid way to install new packages from CTAN.Package tlmgr from AUR couldn't compil on my box and will not do the job.Installing manually new packages doesn't seem to be a good idea and is not very straightforward.
Thank you for any advice.
Just two question: 1. did you read the Wiki? [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Texlive]] 2. what package are you wanted to install?
--- WBR, Vladimir Lomov
-- Yes I read the WIKI maybe 5 times, and other documents. I was unable to makepkg texlive-localmanager-git. I wanted a tool to manage packages from CTAN. The package I wanted is <specfont>. It is included in Texlive 2012, but doesn't work. When \usepackage{specfront}, Texmaker returns an error. Btw, it is not a great deal, but other users have trouble too with the AUR Texlive Local Manager. Is is same as what is called <tlmgr>?
Regards.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forest ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. -- S.T. Coleridge, "Kubla Kahn"
The package I wanted is <specfont>. It is included in Texlive 2012, but doesn't work. When \usepackage{specfront}, Texmaker returns an error.
As I see it, there is no package 'specfont' on CTAN. If you meant 'fontspec' for changing fonts in LaTeX documents, you have to use 'lualatex' rather than 'pdflatex' for generating pdf-documents.
Hello, ** Arno Gaboury [2012-08-03 09:42:48 +0200]:
On 03/08/12||11:06, Vladimir Lomov wrote:
Hello, ** Arno Gaboury [2012-07-31 10:23:15 +0200]:
Dear list,
I use Texlive + Texmaker to write some documents. I can't find an easy and solid way to install new packages from CTAN.Package tlmgr from AUR couldn't compil on my box and will not do the job.Installing manually new packages doesn't seem to be a good idea and is not very straightforward.
Thank you for any advice.
Just two question: 1. did you read the Wiki? [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Texlive]] 2. what package are you wanted to install?
Yes I read the WIKI maybe 5 times, and other documents. I was unable to makepkg texlive-localmanager-git.
Sorry, no help here, I don't use it.
I wanted a tool to manage packages from CTAN.
AFAIK, there is no such tool.
The package I wanted is <specfont>.
CTAN doesn't know that package, as well as `specfront', though there is `fontspec' package.
It is included in Texlive 2012, but doesn't work. When \usepackage{specfront}, Texmaker returns an error.
Exact error message? MWE? BTW, ask TeX related questions on either tex.SE, texhax or comp.text.tex
Btw, it is not a great deal, but other users have trouble too with the AUR Texlive Local Manager. Is is same as what is called <tlmgr>?
Don't know, I personally have TeX Live installed in parallel to distribution 'texlive'. --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov -- Everyone wants results, but no one is willing to do what it takes to get them. -- Dirty Harry
####Sent from my Galaxy S2 running Cyanogenmod 9#### Come and chat on Googletalk On Aug 3, 2012 10:41 AM, "Vladimir Lomov" <lomov.vl@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, ** Arno Gaboury [2012-08-03 09:42:48 +0200]:
On 03/08/12||11:06, Vladimir Lomov wrote:
Hello, ** Arno Gaboury [2012-07-31 10:23:15 +0200]:
Dear list,
I use Texlive + Texmaker to write some documents. I can't find an easy and solid way to install new packages from CTAN.Package tlmgr from AUR couldn't compil on my box and will not do the job.Installing manually new packages doesn't seem to be a good
idea
and is not very straightforward.
Thank you for any advice.
Just two question: 1. did you read the Wiki? [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Texlive]] 2. what package are you wanted to install?
Yes I read the WIKI maybe 5 times, and other documents. I was unable to makepkg texlive-localmanager-git.
Sorry, no help here, I don't use it.
I wanted a tool to manage packages from CTAN.
AFAIK, there is no such tool.
The package I wanted is <specfont>.
CTAN doesn't know that package, as well as `specfront', though there is `fontspec' package.
It is included in Texlive 2012, but doesn't work. When \usepackage{specfront}, Texmaker returns an error.
Exact error message? MWE?
BTW, ask TeX related questions on either tex.SE, texhax or comp.text.tex
Btw, it is not a great deal, but other users have trouble too with the AUR Texlive Local Manager. Is is same as what is called <tlmgr>?
Don't know, I personally have TeX Live installed in parallel to distribution 'texlive'.
--- WBR, Vladimir Lomov
-- Everyone wants results, but no one is willing to do what it takes to get them. -- Dirty Harry
Sorry for my dyslexie, it is indeed the fontspec package. This package is in Texlive and supposed to work with Texlive 2012, according to the readme on the CTAN website. I managed without.
Hi, On Friday 03 Aug 2012 11:01:24 arnaud gaboury wrote:
Sorry for my dyslexie, it is indeed the fontspec package. This package is in Texlive and supposed to work with Texlive 2012, according to the readme on the CTAN website.
I managed without. Fontspec works with TexLive 2012, but requires either Xetex or LuaTex.
-- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
####Sent from my Galaxy S2 running Cyanogenmod 9#### Come and chat on Googletalk On Aug 3, 2012 11:32 AM, "Jayesh Badwaik" <jayesh.badwaik90@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Friday 03 Aug 2012 11:01:24 arnaud gaboury wrote:
Sorry for my dyslexie, it is indeed the fontspec package. This package is in Texlive and supposed to work with Texlive 2012, according to the readme on the CTAN website.
I managed without. Fontspec works with TexLive 2012, but requires either Xetex or LuaTex.
-- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
That's a clear answer. TY.
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arnaud gaboury
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Arno Gaboury
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Jayesh Badwaik
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Tobias Frilling
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Vladimir Lomov