From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 18 05:48:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA20354 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 05:48:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from second.dialup.access.net (lsmarso.dialup.access.net [166.84.254.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA20349 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 05:48:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from larry@marso.com) Received: (from larry@localhost) by second.dialup.access.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA02348; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 08:46:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from larry) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 08:46:30 -0400 From: "Larry S. Marso" To: Brett Taylor , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@marso.com Subject: Re: TeX-ing under FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980918084630.A2256@marso.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Brett Taylor on Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 05:36:48PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There is a newer (beta) version of teTeX than that available via ports. >From the teTeX home page (http://www.tug.org/tetex) >A pretest version of teTeX-0.9 based on web2c-7.2 is also available via >ftp. Please, note that this is not a final release. I have made this >available to get bugfixes and binaries for platforms I don't have access >to. If you are not familiar with debugging problems, please wait for >the final version. The main new features of the new release will be: >pdftex (0.12), xdvi (xdvi(k) 20c) and dvips (dvips(k) 5.78) with hypertex >support, e-TeX (version 2.0). ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/local/misc/teTeX-beta/ Best regards -- Larry S. Marso larry@marso.com On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 05:36:48PM -0600, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Antuan Avdioukhine wrote: > > > 1. After main teTex package was installed I tried to instal latex2e-9801 > > over it (thinking about upgrade). 'tex --ini ...' reported an error > > (opposite to situation when tex+mf only was installed). Am I right when > > I changed 'tex --ini' with 'initex' command? > > Ack - do NOT do this. teTeX contains LaTeX, TeX etc in one package. > > > 2. Can anyone comment the fact I'd read in some documents that teTeX 0.9 > > version is up-to-date teTex distribution for now? > > I can't help w/ this. > > Brett > ****************************************************************** > Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu > http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ > > "There is something uncanny in the noiseless rush of the cyclist, > as he comes into view, passes by, and disappears." > - Popular Science, 1891 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message