2. Latex

2.1 Install new latex font

Go on the CTAN page concerning urw arial and read the readme, that's the best option!

as root or staff or user???
getnonfreefonts-sys --help
getnonfreefonts-sys --lsfonts
getnonfreefonts-sys arial-urw
getnonfreefonts-sys --all

%%% 
getnonfreefonts-sys arial-urw
% look now for ua1.map  (sudo updatedb , locate ua1.map) probably in /usr/local/texmf/
echo 'Map ua1.map' > /etc/texmf/updmap.d/25-arial
update-updmap
vim /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
udpmap-sys

texhash

updmap --enable Map utopia.map

2.2 Tkz and gnuplot - problem with gnuplot 4.4

Edit /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/modules/pgfmoduleplot.code.tex
Replace 
   \xdef\pgf@gnuplot@head#1{set terminal table; set output "#1.table"; set format "%.5f"}
By   
  \xdef\pgf@gnuplot@head#1{settable; set output "#1.table"; set format "%.5f"}

2.3 svg2latex

With inkscape 0.48-1-2, no need to use the script svg2latex.py: 
inkscape -z -D --file=A.svg --export-pdf=A.pdf --export-latex

Better, this can be run when the file is changed direclty from latex with:
an svg inluded with the a defined command "includesvg"

\newcommand{\executeiffilenewer}[3]{%
\ifnum\pdfstrcmp{\pdffilemoddate{#1}}%
{\pdffilemoddate{#2}}>0%
{\immediate\write18{#3}}\fi%
}
\newcommand{\includesvg}[1]{%
\executeiffilenewer{#1.svg}{#1.pdf}
{inkscape -z -D --file=#1.svg --export-pdf=#1.pdf --export-latex}%
\input{#1.pdf_tex}%
}

2.4 Latex et packages

editer
/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf, repère la ligne TEXMFHOME = $HOME/texmf
comenter%, remplacer par TEXMFHOME = /home/manu/Config/texmf,
creer l'arborescence texmf/tex/latex/ et y mettre tous ses .sty
Puis faire un :
 texhash ~/Config/texmf 
possibilite d'installer aussi texline-generic-extra

2.5 Latex et windows

Les fichiers creer sous windows peuvent etre utilises. Il faut les ouvrir en 8859-16 pour detecter les accents.
L'entete doit etre 
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

Emmanuel Branlard
http://emmanuel.branlard.free.fr/