Using texi2pdf
Rolf Dieterich
rolf.dieterich@gmx.de
Sun Oct 23 07:10:00 GMT 2011
Andreas Falkenhahn <andreas@falkenhahn.com> hat am 21.10.2011 um 21:54
Uhr geschrieben:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just tried to use texi2pdf on Cygwin but it doesn't seem to work right. There's a certain
> amount of program activity but no PDF is generated. Here's the verbose log:
>
> $ texi2pdf --verbose testfile.texi
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Processing testfile.texi ...
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: BIBINPUTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: BSTINPUTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: DVIPSHEADERS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: INDEXSTYLE='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: MFINPUTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: MPINPUTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: TEXINPUTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: TFMFONTS='.:/home/Andreas:/home/Andreas/.::'
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Removing /home/Andreas/testfile.t2d
>
> Does anybody know why this doesn't work as it should?
>
> Tks,
>
> Andreas
Hi Andreas,
I happened to generate some texinfo manuals in pdf format lately. For me
it is working:
$ texi2pdf --verbose gccintro.texi
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Processing gccintro.texi ...
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
BIBINPUTS='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
BSTINPUTS='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
DVIPSHEADERS='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
INDEXSTYLE='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
MFINPUTS='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
MPINPUTS='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
TEXINPUTS='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi:
TFMFONTS='.:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0:/home/Rolf/info/gccintro-1.0/.::'
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex preloaded as `', version is `20110923' ...
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Cycle 1 for ./gccintro.texi
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Backing up xref files: gccintro.aux
gccintro.cp
gccintro.cps
gccintro.toc
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: Running texindex gccintro.cp
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Running pdfetex --file-line-error
'./gccintro.texi' ...
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
[...]
But I have Tex Live 2011 installed. So I don't use tetex 3.0 from the
official Cygwin distribution:
$ kpsewhich texinfo.tex
/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
First check if you have the texinfo format installed:
$ cygcheck -f /usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
tetex-base-3.0.0-3
texinfo-4.13-3
Then check if you have the tex engines installed, e.g. pdftex:
$ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/pdftex
tetex-bin-3.0.0-3
My tetex installation seems to be incomplete:
$ cygcheck -c tetex-bin
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
tetex-bin 3.0.0-3 Incomplete
But as I mentioned I don't use tetex anyway.
Summary:
texi2pdf and texi2dvi are bash scripts which need texinfo.tex (a TeX
format) an underlying tex engine.
I don't know if the rather ancient tetex distribution in Cygwin is
sufficient to do the job.
-- Rolf
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