by CSchenk29. April 2005 22:50
The current MiKTeX setup uses ushyph.tex as the default hyphenation table. This is not strictly a bug. But it can lead to different line breaks (in comparison to other TeX systems). Therefore I will change language.dat as follows:
< english ushyph.tex
---
> english hyphen.tex
hyphen.tex is the classic hyphenation table written by Knuth.
The revised language.dat will be made available with the next MiKTeX update.
by CSchenk27. April 2005 23:36Today the MetaPost team has announced
MetaPost 0.9. I am currently downloading the tar file. Tomorrow I will take a look at the source code. If possible, I will make available binaries for MiKTeX 2.4. We shall see...
by CSchenk19. April 2005 15:07The packages captcont, subfigure and subfig all contain the file ltxdoc.cfg in the input directory (e.g., C:\texmf\tex\latex\captcont). That will be corrected with the next update, i.e., ltxdoc.cfg will be moved into the source directory.
by CSchenk11. April 2005 00:09
Besides the old lm fonts version, there is another bug: updmap.cfg doesn't contain an entry for the new font mapping file lm.map.
by CSchenk10. April 2005 20:45
Today's update delivers version 0.98.2 of the lm fonts. That's a mistake. My intent was to distribute 0.98.3 (the current CTAN version). I will correct this tomorrow.
by CSchenk9. April 2005 00:48
MiKTeX 2.5 developmet has started in December. According to the roadmap, the first step is to redesign the internal interfaces (aka refactoring). The outcome will be a portable set of components. Portable in the sense that it will be easy to build the components for other systems.
I am currently working on the core component (MiKTeX-core*.dll). The core component handles
- file searching
- running secondary processes
- reading configuration files
System-dependent features in this area are:
- reading directories
- reading/writing memory-mapped files
- threads
There are well known design patterns which help to separate system-dependent code. Implementing these design patterns is an interesting job which will keep me busy the next few months.
by CSchenk7. April 2005 00:00
Every once in a while I receive the following request: "Please, make mgs.exe runnable at the DOS-prompt". You should know that mgs.exe is a special version of Ghostscript, meant to be called internally by MiKTeX applications (such as Yap). If you start mgs.exe at the DOS-prompt, the following will happen:
> mgs
MiKTeX GPL Ghostscript 8.15: Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps.
That's because mgs.exe doesn't use the original registry keys and environment variables. For example, mgs.exe queries MIKTEX_GS_LIB instead of GS_LIB. You can start mgs.exe at the DOS-prompt if you set MIKTEX_GS_LIB as follows:
MIKTEX_GS_LIB=C:\texmf\ghostscript\base;C:\texmf\fonts
by CSchenk6. April 2005 00:29There are quite a few packages ready for deployment. And some more packages need to be prepared. I am planning to upload the batch on Monday.