Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 08:41:50 +0200 From: Bernd Rosauer <br@schiele-ct.de> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which tex Message-ID: <199607260641.IAA16304@chuck.schiele-ct.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jul 1996 22:15:39 MDT." <199607260415.WAA01344@rover.village.org>
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> OK. I want to build and install TeX on my FreeBSD current system. > > Looking at the ports area I find the following: > mltex > latex > musixtex > teTeX > tex > latex209 > > Now, I just want the latest TeX, LaTeX, et al for my system. Which > one of these monsters do I want to install? My guess would either be > just teTeX, or latex209 + tex + dvips + mltex + musixtex + ????? > > What have others done? How much disk space will I need? Thanks for > any pointers you can give me. Try teTeX. It's the latest and greatest distribution of TeX and friends for UNIX compatible systems. It's packages are up-to-date, and it's complete. (It takes about 30 MBytes of disk space.) For this reasons as well as numerous others (see the FEATURES file of the distribution) a lot of people use teTeX. BTW: It's the core of the TeX Live CD recently launched by Sebasthian Rahtz at the last European TeX users meeting. A lot of well-known (La)TeX gurus use teTeX, and Thomas Esser has been invited by Michael Goosens of CERN to install his TeX distribution on CERN's worldwide 3000 host multi-platform network next month. So you can be sure that teTeX is really cool stuff. -Bernd
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