Re: Problem with CVS version, signalflow library and MikTeX2.5

Am 11.01.2007 um 10:48 schrieb Kjell Magne Fauske:

> On 1/11/07, Ignasi Furió <ignasi.furio <at> uib.es> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>         I wanted to experiment with signalflow library and  
>> downloaded CVS version
>> of pgf which already include it. I'm using MikTeX 2.5 with  
>> WindowsXP, so I
>> instaled everything under my \localtexmf folder reproducing pgf's
>> directory tree (context,doc,generic,incoming,latex,plain). My first
>> problem is that MikTeX doesn't recognize 'incoming' as a valid  
>> directory
>> for .sty files, so I moved it into latex folder. And now the  
>> problem is
>> that it doesn't find 'pgfutil-common.tex'
>> which is in \localtexmf\generic\pgf\utilities.
>
> If you want to experiment with the signalflow library, I suggest that
> you install it separately from PGF and download it from [1]. It is an
> experimental library and I don't know which parts of it will be
> included in a future PGF release.

Indeed... The incoming directory of the CVS is, well, just stuff that  
someone send me and for which I did not yet have the time to ingrate  
it into the main code -- and for which I have not even decided  
whether this should be done at all.

So, in essence, everything in incoming may disappear and change  
without any notice and I generally do not even know what the stuff  
there does. I stronly suggest to install it separately from pgf as  
suggested above.

Concerning the pgfutil-common.tex problem: You need to setup the  
directories correctly, which is a bit of a hassle. The easiest way is  
the following:

Put the whole pgf source under

\localtexmf\generic\pgf

Now create the following link:

\localtexmf\latex\pgf should point to \localtexmf\generic\pgf\latex\pgf

Come to think of it, I do not know whether Windows can actually do  
links correctly... If that fails, simply move \localtexmf\generic\pgf 
\latex\pgf to \localtexmf\latex\pgf.

Then run texhash.

Hoping this helps,
Till

> When I added the signalflow examples to the gallery, I created a
> directory in my localtexmf folder and put all the files[1] there.
> After I updated the filename database I could include it as an
> ordinary package. You should then be able to run the examples.
>
> [1] http://www.fauskes.net/media/pgftikzexamples/signalflowlibrary/ 
> signalflowlibrary.zip
>
> - Kjell Magne Fauske
>

--
Prof. Dr. Till Tantau <tantau <at> tcs.uni-luebeck.de>
http://www.tcs.uni-luebeck.de

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