From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jul 8 16:17:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9CA714EB6 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:17:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.2) id WAA03166; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 22:27:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 22:26:59 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Jay Nelson Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Bob Van Valzah Subject: Re: FreeBSD Formatting Help Message-ID: <19990708222659.B1124@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990707113922.V15628@lehman.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Jay Nelson on Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 07:05:42PM -0500 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 07:05:42PM -0500, Jay Nelson wrote: > >> * What about the tex-3.14159 vs teTeX-0.9.981113 packages? > > > >You only need TeX if you want to produce Postscript or PDF output, > >otherwise it's not necessary. > > > >You should only have one of these installed. teTeX-beta is currently > >recommended, as it installs all the optional TeX packages (like hyperref) > >that are required by the Jade TeX macros. tex-3.14159 will probably > >work, but will need some configuring by hand. I'm not a hardcore TeX > >user, and can't advise on how you'd get tex-3.14159 to work for you. > > This is an interesting question. tex-3.14159 (along with it's friends) > is the traditional TeX. I've been thinking about pulling teTeX out and > replacing with this because the footprint is 75% smaller than teTeX. > It would require pulling in some 25 separate pieces, though, to make > it work for the Doc Proj. It would definately be the harder way of > going. If there is any interest out there in making this approach > work, I could pursue it further. I'm interested. Specifically, the JadeTeX port would then have a Makefile option that determines which of the two it uses, so the end user can choose for themselves -- they might already have one or the other installed, for example. > >> * What does LaTeX have to do with any of this? > > > >It doesn't. As I understand it; > > It does. JadeTeX is built on the base LaTeX format, along with a half > dozen LaTeX add ons. You will need LaTeX2e and friends installed to > build the JadeTeX format files. LaTeX and dvips are installed > automatically with teTeX. Ah, I didn't know that. I thought JadeTeX used TeX from the ground up. Thanks for the correction. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message