LilyIssues / Issues / #4737 Add XeTeX for document building

Anonymous - 2016-02-20

Q. Did you do "./autogen.sh --noconf" ?

A. Yes. I build and test in a separate directory (out of tree build).

Q. Would you show me "config.log" ?

Of course ... hold on ...

and now I think I know why it didn't work.

You see, the (my) 'test process' is basically this:

autogen

configure

make

make test-baseline

apply patch

make

make check

make doc

NB. there are a few more switches (disable optimise and noconfiguire) and I do a make clean after applying the patch but this is the outline:

So I 'assume' that after I apply this patch, and run make doc then I am still going to be using PfdTex.

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Anonymous - 2016-02-20

Hosoda-san.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9nZ5LHV2Ds6QWprSURPRmRBeFU

For PDFs (English Only) and the configure output is attached to this tracker.

configout.txt.zip

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- Masamichi Hosoda - 2016-02-21
  
  Thank you for your PDFs.
  They are all generated by XeTeX.
  
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Anonymous - 2016-02-21

Patch: countdown --> review
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Anonymous - 2016-02-21

I'm putting this back on review. This seems to be a relatively fundamental change (if not for users, for builders of LP documentation) and also seems to indicate that changes to the Contributor Guide would be needed (i.e. listing the Doc Build reqs etc.).

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Anonymous - 2016-02-24

Patch: review --> countdown
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Anonymous - 2016-02-24

Patch on countdown for Feb 27th.

@Hosada-san, if this goes through do we need to change what the requirements are for building LilyPond?

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- Masamichi Hosoda - 2016-02-24
  
  XeTeX and XeLaTeX will be required.
  
  XeTeX (and XeLaTeX) are contained by "texlive-xetex" package.
  The package name of Debian and Ubuntu are "texlive-xetex".
  Package name of Fedora is also seems the same.
  
  On the other hand, even if XeTeX does not exist, pdfTeX is used.
  (pdfTeX is included in the current requirements.)
  This means that it may not be necessary to change the requirements.
  
  However, if you use pdfTeX, some glyphs are missed.
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2015-12/msg00136.html
  Such issues do not occur with XeTeX.
  
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Anonymous - 2016-02-27

Patch: countdown --> push
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Anonymous - 2016-02-27

Patch counted down - please push.

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Masamichi Hosoda - 2016-02-27

labels: --> Fixed_2_19_37

status: Started --> Fixed

Patch: push -->
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Masamichi Hosoda - 2016-02-27

I've pushed to staging.

Issue 4737: Add XeTeX for document building

author Masamichi Hosoda trueroad@trueroad.jp
Sat, 9 Jan 2016 18:12:41 +0000 (03:12 +0900)
committer Masamichi Hosoda trueroad@trueroad.jp
Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:22:17 +0000 (23:22 +0900)
commit 424be60367b0546e4e57307dccf1ba0d9488044c

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Phil Holmes - 2016-02-28

This patch breaks GUB. I've (I think) fixed it with

sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex

but I think Xetex should be added to the GUB environment requirements?

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- David Kastrup - 2016-02-28
  
  It should be added to the GUB requirements but as far as I remember this patch is not supposed to break GUB regardless: it should detect the absence of XeTeX at configuration time and fall back to PDFTeX. Some people might need the fallback, so we should find out why it does not work.
  
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  - Masamichi Hosoda - 2016-02-28
    
    I've found the reson if I understand correctly.
    
    Ubuntu's "texlive" package depends on "texlive-latex-base" package.
    "texlive-latex-base" package depends on "texlive-binaries" package.
    "texlive-binaries" package has /usr/bin/xetex.
    
    So if you install "texlive" package, your system has /usr/bin/xetex.
    However, it does not contain XeTeX required files.
    They are in "texlive-xetex" package.
    "texlive-xetex" package is not depended on by "texlive" package.
    
    In other words, /usr/bin/xetex exists but its required files do not exist.
    
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    - David Kastrup - 2016-02-28
      
      That seems like a rather awful design of the TeXlive packaging. But we should try coping with it. So configure would have to test for a working XeTeX binary rather than an existing one, correct?
      
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      - Masamichi Hosoda - 2016-02-28
        
        /usr/bin/xelatex is contained only in "texlive-xetex".
        So if /usr/bin/xelatex exists, using XeTeX is one of the solution I think.
        
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        Masamichi Hosoda - 2016-02-29
        
        I've created Issue 4782 for fixing XeTeX checking in configure script.
        https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/4782/
        
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- Masamichi Hosoda - 2016-02-28
  
  If I understand correctly, current GUB does not contain texlive.
  It have been commented out. So it does not work.
  
  https://github.com/gperciva/gub/blob/master/gub/specs/lilypond.py#L49
  https://github.com/gperciva/gub/blob/master/gub/specs/lilypond-doc.py#L14
  
  In other words, it does not contain pdfTeX.
  GUB uses system's pdfTeX, XeTeX etc.
  
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Phil Holmes - 2016-02-28

That seems correct. Unfortunately the logfile showing the exact arror was over-written by my new build, but I remember it saying that it could not find files in the XeTeX cirectory.

Should GUB's configuration be updated to include XeTeX?

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- Masamichi Hosoda - 2016-02-28
  
  Should GUB's configuration be updated to include XeTeX?
  
  It's very difficult.
  GUB does not contain any TeX systems.
  
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Simon Albrecht - 2016-03-02

status: Fixed --> Verified
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