[tex-live] Installing TeX live on MacOS X

[George N. White III]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Arthur Reutenauer
<arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org> wrote:

>> The two "2d' values are ASCII minus.  If I do the same with the TL2010
>> install-tl teminal on on MacOSX, I get, as you did, something quite different:
>> $ echo -force-platform | od -x
>> 0000000      88e2    6692    726f    6563    88e2    7092    616c    6674
>> 0000020      726f    0a6d
>> 0000024
>
>  ... that is U+2212 MINUS SIGN (0xe2 0x88 0x92 in UTF-8), supposed to
> be used for mathematics.  Strange that Perl would produce that.

On my mac (Snow Leopard) system, I don't see the problem when using
macports groff -1.20, or when using ssh from linux. There has been extensive
discussion of the issue on debian lists:

<http://lintian.debian.org/tags/hyphen-used-as-minus-sign.html> for an
overview, and
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548844> message
no. 10, which indicates: "debian groff as of 1.18.1.1-7:

  * Too many fonts are missing the Unicode HYPHEN character, so I give up.
    Render "-" as HYPHEN-MINUS (ASCII 0x2D) by default. (Of course, manual
    pages using "-" when they should be using "\-" should still be fixed.)"

This comes from the groff README.debian (attached)

So it appears the problem is with Apple's groff, but since it only occurs with
an Apple Terminal, there must be a way to disable it.  It appears likely that
some older linux systems will exhibit the problem as well.

-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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