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Bugs and Feedback

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:

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) 
	

Last modified by Wolfgang Kühn on May 17 2005

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