From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 17:42:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06DA4106567E for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:42:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.78.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C978D8FC0A for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:42:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id B914C28469; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:42:01 -0400 (EDT) To: Polytropon References: <86ej5bs3ns.fsf@nowhere.org> <20080730191726.9fe406ae.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:42:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080730191726.9fe406ae.freebsd@edvax.de> (Polytropon's message of "Wed\, 30 Jul 2008 19\:17\:26 +0200") Message-ID: <44ej5bgtg6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tex, teTex, LaTeX help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:42:03 -0000 Polytropon writes: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:05:59 +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: >> "Joey Mingrone" writes: >> > fonts, but it seems they are in the teTex port, but that port >> > conflicts with the tex port and it seems teTex is no longer being >> > updated. >> >> Alas the news about teTeX is true. > > I'm very sad to hear this, allthough I'm always installing teTeX > via pkg_add -r, and I never found something not working anymore. > Is there any consideration to remove teTeX completely from the > ports tree, or is it still valid to keep using it? > > (I use LaTeX for nearly everything: work, documentation, literature, > even for letters (dinbrief class), so I'm interested in this topic.) > > Many thanks for pointing out how to get \LaTeX{} from TeXLive. teTeX still works fine; well enough that I haven't been tempted to try porting TeXLive yet... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/