Bug 75465 – ancient xdvi in RH8?

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Bug 75465 - ancient xdvi in RH8?

Summary:	ancient xdvi in RH8?

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	tetex (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Tim Waugh
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2002-10-08 16:30 EDT by Martijn Feleus
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:47 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2003-05-23 11:29:21 EDT
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Description Martijn Feleus 2002-10-08 16:30:28 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809

Description of problem:
The version reported by xdvi is 22.05d-k, that of pxdvi 22.15-k. Is that mere
cosmetics or is this indeed the xdvi of *3 years* ago?
Current xdvi version is 22.63, adding all sorts of nice functionality (sort of
like textures on mac, which everyone always raves about).

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
just run (p)xdvi -version
	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2002-10-08 16:33:19 EDT

Does 22.63 support Japanese?

Comment 2 Martijn Feleus 2002-10-09 09:55:09 EDT

I have no idea; neither the site nor the source seems to mention Japanese though.
(http://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/xdvi.html)

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2002-10-09 10:00:36 EDT

We can't lose Japanese support in pxdvi, and I'd rather keep xdvi at the same 
revision.

Comment 4 Martijn Feleus 2002-10-09 10:25:50 EDT

I imagine that the newer version would since the older version does, right? Or
do you patch the stock xdvi source? I have no idea how to verify this, however,
since I'm no programmer, merely a sysadmin.

I think that it would be worthwhile to try upgrading xdvi though, since the new
features are very nice from what I read.

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2002-10-09 10:41:59 EDT

Stock 22.15 doesn't support Japanese.

Comment 6 Gerald Teschl 2002-10-21 15:55:05 EDT

I also feel that the version of xdvi should be updated. Several users
have complained to me about this.

Moroever, I do not understand the issue about japanese support? Xdvi displays
whatever tex produces. So it will support whatever tex supports.

Comment 7 Tim Waugh 2002-10-21 16:40:12 EDT

Look at the differences between pxdvi and xdvi.  I don't understand all the
issues myself.

Comment 8 Gerald Teschl 2002-10-23 06:21:35 EDT

The only difference between pxdvi and xdvi seems to be navigation.
pxdvi has an extended sidebar where a page can be selected and they use
slightley different keyboard shortcuts.

Comment 9 Tim Waugh 2002-10-23 06:30:33 EDT

Then look at the patch.  It is quite extensive I think.

Comment 10 Tim Waugh 2003-05-23 11:29:21 EDT

Rawhide version has a newer xdvi now.

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