Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:13:24 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tex, teTex, LaTeX help Message-ID: <44myjzfanf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44ej5bgtg6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> (Lowell Gilbert's message of "Wed\, 30 Jul 2008 13\:42\:01 -0400") References: <f5b896260807300900o16f33f19h82b06781a51c8962@mail.gmail.com> <86ej5bs3ns.fsf@nowhere.org> <20080730191726.9fe406ae.freebsd@edvax.de> <44ej5bgtg6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> writes:
> Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:05:59 +0100, Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> wrote:
>>> "Joey Mingrone" <joey@mingrone.org> 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...
I forgot to mention that the FreeBSD documentation project
(textproc/docproj*) still uses teTeX, so I keep that installed anyway.
--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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