Trouble with Amrtex on a 3.03 install on FC10

[matei]

Hi,
I am having trouble getting the Amrtex to work on an installation on
Fedora 10. As TETEX is no longer supported, I am using the TEXLIVE
binaries for FC10.

When I try:
unix-prompt> amrtex -check

a slew of errors appear. Tracking down the errors, the log generated
in
/home/matei/.texlive2007/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.log
reads:
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX) 14
JUL 2009 09:04
entering extended mode
%&-line parsing enabled.
(/usr/share/texmf/web2c/cp227.tcx)
***pdflatex.ini
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/latexconfig/pdflatex.ini
(/home/matei/AMRITA/AMRITAv3.03/src3p/latex/inputs/pdftexconfig.tex
! Missing { inserted.
<to be read again>
{
l.11 \pdfmapfile{
+amritafonts.map}
?
! Emergency stop.
<to be read again>
{
l.11 \pdfmapfile{
+amritafonts.map}
End of file on the terminal!

! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!


Any ideas of know issues with making PDF documents on Fedora 10?

Thanks,

matei

[James Quirk]

Matei,

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, matei wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I am having trouble getting the Amrtex to work on an installation on
> Fedora 10. As TETEX is no longer supported, I am using the TEXLIVE
> binaries for FC10.
>
> When I try:
> unix-prompt> amrtex -check
>
> a slew of errors appear. Tracking down the errors, the log generated
> in
> /home/matei/.texlive2007/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.log

That's a funny place to output a log file. What else is in ~/.texlive2007?

Anyhow, I'm running pdfTeX 1.40.3-2 om texlive 2008 and so the
problem should not be too difficult to track down. I suspect
it has something to do with your TEXINPUTS setupt. What does
the following give you:

echo $TEXINPUTS

If it's empty then you'll need to rejig $AMRITA/stdlib/latex/Latex.amr,
or I'll ship you AMRITAv3.05 which already has the required changes.

> reads:
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX) 14
> JUL 2009 09:04

I see that's today's date? Have you verified that the TeX installation
is working independently of AMRITA?

> entering extended mode
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/cp227.tcx)
> ***pdflatex.ini
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/latexconfig/pdflatex.ini
> (/home/matei/AMRITA/AMRITAv3.03/src3p/latex/inputs/pdftexconfig.tex
> ! Missing { inserted.
> <to be read again>
> {
> l.11 \pdfmapfile{
> +amritafonts.map}
> ?
> ! Emergency stop.
> <to be read again>
> {
> l.11 \pdfmapfile{
> +amritafonts.map}
> End of file on the terminal!
>
> ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>
>
> Any ideas of know issues with making PDF documents on Fedora 10?

You could try editing the file:

/home/matei/AMRITA/AMRITAv3.03/src3p/latex/inputs/pdftexconfig.tex

and add a space between \pdfmapfile and the left curlybrace.

James

>
> Thanks,
>
> matei
> >

[matei]

James,
After poking around and trying to run different .tex scripts from the
net, I installed
fig2ps binary, which installed the following binaries on my system:

Jul 14 12:17:35 Installed: tcsh-6.15-7.fc10.i386
Jul 14 12:17:35 Installed: 1:transfig-3.2.5-4.fc10.i386
Jul 14 12:17:37 Installed: gv-3.6.6-1.fc10.i386
Jul 14 12:17:37 Installed: fig2ps-1.3.6-3.fc10.noarch

That made it work, but I am not sure what made the difference!
I can now generate the various documents prepared with Latex like the
examples in your VKI notes.

Thanks,
matei

[James Quirk]

Matei,

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, matei wrote:

>
> James,
> After poking around and trying to run different .tex scripts from the
> net, I installed
> fig2ps binary, which installed the following binaries on my system:
>
> Jul 14 12:17:35 Installed: tcsh-6.15-7.fc10.i386
> Jul 14 12:17:35 Installed: 1:transfig-3.2.5-4.fc10.i386
> Jul 14 12:17:37 Installed: gv-3.6.6-1.fc10.i386
> Jul 14 12:17:37 Installed: fig2ps-1.3.6-3.fc10.noarch

It's probably tcsh that made the difference. But the only way
to know would be to uninstall them and then add them one at
a time.

>
> That made it work, but I am not sure what made the difference!
> I can now generate the various documents prepared with Latex like the
> examples in your VKI notes.
>

To regenerate the entire VKI notes, you'll first need to run:

amrmake site::cache

which grabs the URL cache I used back in 1998; many of the URL's
themselves are now missing.

James