[tex-live] TeX Live 2010 test report

[George N. White III]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Markus Uhr <uhrm at inf.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've decided to try out the pretest version of TeX Live 2010. I've found some issues that I'd like to report back. I used the network installer and only selected a subset of the distribution. See below for the details:
>
> Network install (customized)
> ----------------------------
>
> Binaries:
>
> u: x86_64-linux
>
> Installation scheme:
>
> a: basic scheme
>
> Custom collections:
>
> a: Essential programs and files
> g: Recommended fonts
> l: Recommended generic packages
> o: Basic LaTeX packages
> p: LaTeX3 packages
> t: LaTeX recommended packages
> v: Advanced math typesetting
> y: Graphics packages and programs
> D: XeTeX packages
>
> Custom languages:
>
> j: US and UK English
> m: German
>
> Options: default values
>
>
> Problems
> --------
>
> * tlmgr --help: The TeX Live Manager uses "less" to display the help text. In the new version, it shows some wired escape sequences. I guess there is something wrong in rendering the man-page.

I don't see this in konsole from Ubuntu 10.4, with TERM=xterm or on Mac OS X.

> * XeTeX: missing package binhex.tex. When I tried to compile one of my real-life documents using XeTeX and "unicode-math", it tried to pull in "binhex.tex". I think this is needed by the package "xpackages". The missing file belongs to the "kastrup" package. The problem seems to be a missing dependency of "xpackages" to "kastrup".
>
> Installing "kastrup" manually using tlmgr solved the problem.
>
> * XeTeX: segfault when using strechy math characters and <unicode-math>.
>  Example document:
>
>  \documentclass{article}
>  \usepackage{amsmath}
>  \usepackage{unicode-math}
>
>  \begin{document}
>
>  \begin{equation*}
>      \begin{pmatrix}1 \\ 0 \\ 0\end{pmatrix}
>  \end{equation*}
>
>  \end{document}

I think this is a known issue -- the workaround is to install the i386
binaries.

> In TeX Live 2009, this document rendered without stretchy characters (on Linux), but XeTeX did not segfault. This is clearly a regression from the previous version.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Markus


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