From D_Lane at Lakeview.demon.co.uk  Fri Feb  3 20:11:09 2012
From: D_Lane at Lakeview.demon.co.uk (David R Lane)
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:11:09 GMT
Subject: Initial questions
Message-ID: <542ae25b52.D_Lane@lakeview.demon.co.uk>

I have had a look at the Latex software and have managed to get a DVI 
file from a text file input and viewed the DVI output in DVIview.

I have version 3.1 of armTeX, version 1.03 of DVIview and version 1.30 
of TeXFonts all of November 2004.

Are there later versions of any of these and, if so, where?

The riscos-tex Archives at 'chiark.greenend' are empty. Are past posts 
to the email list somewhere else?

The "Edit paper sizes ...." item on the iconbar menu of DVIview seems 
stuck on size A2, setting other sizes is not retained. Also the A4 
width and height are incorrect, giving the same figures as for A2.

I couldn't find !DVIview.Doc.Docs in my version of !DVIview although 
this is referred to in the help text file of DVIview.

When I double click on my Latex directory with all the software in it, 
including !TeXFonts, I get an error message titled
Run ADFS::HardDisc4.$........Latex.!TeXFonts.!Boot
and saying
"Repeat: Font prefix is not a path.
Press SPACE or click mouse to continue."
After clicking this away, the filer window of the directory appears 
and I can proceed. Is this to be expected?

Finally, to produce the DVI file I use command line, but would like to 
be able to use the WIMP as it claims you can in the help inside !TeX.
The directions in this readMe don't work for me.

Cheers,
Dave Lane

-- 
Windows 7 Ultimate. Yes, let's hope it's the last one.


From theom+rotex at chiark.greenend.org.uk  Fri Feb  3 21:30:38 2012
From: theom+rotex at chiark.greenend.org.uk (Theo Markettos)
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 21:30:38 +0000
Subject: Initial questions
In-Reply-To: <542ae25b52.D_Lane@lakeview.demon.co.uk>
References: <542ae25b52.D_Lane@lakeview.demon.co.uk>
Message-ID: <20120203213020.GJ29120@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 08:11:09PM +0000, David R Lane wrote:
> I have had a look at the Latex software and have managed to get a DVI 
> file from a text file input and viewed the DVI output in DVIview.
> 
> I have version 3.1 of armTeX, version 1.03 of DVIview and version 1.30 
> of TeXFonts all of November 2004.
> 
> Are there later versions of any of these and, if so, where?

Those sound fairly recent to me.  I don't think anything has happened to TeX
on RISC OS since then.  I did have a go at cross-compiling tetex, but it
turned into a hugely complex project because the build system wasn't
amenable.  TeXLive (its replacement) may be more amenable, I haven't tried it.

> The riscos-tex Archives at 'chiark.greenend' are empty. Are past posts 
> to the email list somewhere else?

The server had a backup failure in the summer, so I'm afraid they're gone. 
The list has been effectively dead for some years.

> The "Edit paper sizes ...." item on the iconbar menu of DVIview seems 
> stuck on size A2, setting other sizes is not retained. Also the A4 
> width and height are incorrect, giving the same figures as for A2.

Pass, I don't know anything about DVIview.

> When I double click on my Latex directory with all the software in it, 
> including !TeXFonts, I get an error message titled
> Run ADFS::HardDisc4.$........Latex.!TeXFonts.!Boot
> and saying
> "Repeat: Font prefix is not a path.
> Press SPACE or click mouse to continue."
> After clicking this away, the filer window of the directory appears 
> and I can proceed. Is this to be expected?

!TeXFonts.!Boot is running all the !Install scripts in
!TeXFonts.Packages.!<something>.!Install

Something is going wrong on one of them, but it's difficult to tell which
one.  You could try moving some out of the way and seeing which it is.  I
think one of the FontInstall lines in one of them is the problem.

> Finally, to produce the DVI file I use command line, but would like to 
> be able to use the WIMP as it claims you can in the help inside !TeX.
> The directions in this readMe don't work for me.

You should be able to double click a (La)TeX file to process to DVI, though
it's been ages since I tried this.  What happened?

Theo