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Reporting bugs
Before you report a bug to me at wolfgang@decatur.de,
please download the newest version of iTe and check if the bug persists.
Note that there may be a most recent (beta) release, including bug reports and workarounds.
Also check the following bug list. If you do report a bug, please provide the following, if possible:
- Version of iTe:
- Version of Emacs or XEmacs:
- Version of dvips:
- Version of gs:
- Version of perl:
- Does the demo run?
- Concise description of bug:
- Any idea how the bug may be fixed:
Bug list for iTe 3_0
- BUG
- Latex style import.sty is incompatible with iTe.
- FIX
- Install Version 3_1 or in file tex/ite.sty, replace the line
\def\ite@input#1{\message{ITEKEYOPEN}\iteinput#1\message{ITEKEYCLOSE}}
by the line
\def\ite@input#1{\message{ITEKEYOPEN}\iteinput{#1}\message{ITEKEYCLOSE}}
Bug list for iTe 2_20
- BUG
- Newer versions of Gnu Emacs (probably >21.2) break iTe's menubar.
- FIX
- Install Version 3_0
- BUG
- Newer versions of dvips(k) (probably >5.90) will produce invalid PostScript code.
- FIX
- Install Version 3_0 or in file ite.ps, insert the line
TeXDict begin
before the line
ITEDict begin
Bug list for iTe 2_15
- BUG
- On recent Linux installations, no ghostscript window appears after iTe is invoked.
- FIX
- Install Version 2_20 or in file ite.el, replace the line
(defcustom ite-gs-command "gs -c /iTeInit == flush -"
by the line
(defcustom ite-gs-command "gs -sDEVICE=x11 -c /iTeInit == flush -"
Thanks to Heribert Weigert.
Bug list for iTe 2_1 (June 2000)
- BUG
- iTe either fails to start up or displays initial pages
which do not contain iTe blocks.
- FIX
- Install Version 2_15 or in file ite.pl, replace the line
until ( $. >= @pages[0]->{BEGINLINE} ) {
by the line
until ( /%%Page:/ ) {
Bug list for iTe 2_01 (December 1999)
- BUG
- On some window managers, an error is signaled if
the iTe online help is accepted on startup.
- FIX
- Do not accept. You can invoke the online help later
by typing ´h´ or using the iTe menu.
Bug list for iTe 2_0 (November 1999)
- BUG
- The \include macro does not work.
- FIX
- Replace the following line in ite_tex or ite.sty
\def\include#1{\message{ITEKEYOPEN}\iteinclude#1\message{ITEKEYCLOSE}}
by
\def\include#1{\message{ITEKEYOPEN}\iteinclude{#1}\message{ITEKEYCLOSE}}
- BUG
- The Makefile is broken.
- FIX
- Replace the following line in the Makefile
-e "s|iTeDocPath|$(srcdir)/doc" \
by
-e "s|iTeDocPath|$(srcdir)/doc|" \
Bug list for iTe 1_4 (May 1999)
- BUG
- Unbalanced parenthesis in the (La)TeX log-file throws iTe
into an endless loop.
- FIX
- Install iTe 2_0.
- BUG
- Using the seminar package, iTe gets the scaling
wrong in some cases.
- FIX
- Install iTe 2_0.
Bug list for iTe 1_3 (April 1999)
- BUG
- In test-basic.tex, the iTe package should be
loaded without the [graphics] option.
- FIX
- Remove the option.
- BUG
- For Plain TeX only: iTe does not work
correctly if \magnification values different from 1000
are used.
- FIX
- There is no work-around.
Bug list for iTe 1_2 (Feb 1999)
- BUG
- Perl script does not handle big (>ite-ps-limit bytes) iTe objects
(reported by Torben Hoffmann).
- FIX
- In
/ite/rsc/ite.pl, replace the line
print $fh "\n($FN) run\n";
by
print PAGE "\n($FN) run\n";
- BUG
make install cannot handle relative path names
for texdir and lispdir.
- FIX
- Use absolute path names.
- BUG
- iTe fails to parse the (La)TeX log file correctly when
\tracingmacros is set.
- FIX
- Don't use
\tracingmacros when running iTe.
Bug list for iTe 1_1 (Aug 1998)
- BUG
- iTe scrambles macros in the TeX source that
start with
\ite and do not continue with an 'm', such
as \iterate.
- FIX
- Replace the single
occurrence of
[^m] in ite.el by [^a-zA-Z].
- BUG
- Pages are displayed but
immediately erased (GhostScript version 5_50).
- FIX
- Replace all two occurences in 'ite.el' of
copypage by
flushpage.
- BUG
- Minor modes are switched off by iTe.
- FIX
- Invoke minor modes
with the optional argument 't'. For example
(add-hook 'latex-mode-hook '(lambda () (interactive)
(outline-minor-mode t)))
instead of
(add-hook 'latex-mode-hook 'outline-minor-mode)