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[Ralf Treinen <address@hidden>]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 10:05:18PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 07:40:52AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 02:28, address@hidden wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 08:30:47PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I found that I have to 1) make sure the labels I want typeset are 
> > > > marked
> > > > "special" in XFig, then 2) manually run the "fig2ps" script on them, 
> > > > to
> > > > produce an eps file that can be included in a TeXmacs document.
> > > 
> > > If TeXmacs is "correctly" installed, it should find the script fig2ps
> > > by itself. Here "correctly" installed means that "fig2ps" can be found
> > > in $PATH.
> > > 
> > > Compiling and installing texmacs with 'configure --prefix
> > > /usr/local/texmacs-NNN' and running it with
> > > /usr/local/texmacs-NNN/bin/texmacs does not qualify as "correct
> > > installation".
> > > 
> > > How did you make your installation?
> > 
> > apt-get install texmacs
> 
> This is strange. It seems (according to apt-file) that the texmacs deb
> just puts fig2ps in usr/bin/fig2ps. So there should be not PATH problem.

Yes, the debian package contains fig2ps at /usr/bin/fig2ps.
Unfortunately I didn't follow all the mails on this thread (I'm just
returning from vacation) - what exactly is the problem ? There is no bug
report from Karl in the debian BTS against texmacs.

-Ralf.