Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 17:05:55 +0200 From: Tomasz Rola <rtomek@ceti.pl> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The recommended LaTeX port? Message-ID: <20180819150555.GA2423@tau1.ceti.pl> In-Reply-To: <20180819161317.9bfdac7f.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20180819134150.GA18805@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180819161317.9bfdac7f.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 04:13:17PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 20:41:50 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > Which is *the* \LaTeX distribution for FreeBSD currently? > > > > I remember last time I needed \LaTex around a dozen years ago, I used > > the teTeX port, but cannot find it now. > > This is currect, teTeX has been discontinued. The consensus > is to use TeXlive which is in FreeBSD ports, but is offered > for many other platforms, too. > > > > > Cyrillic support is crucial, direct output to PDF is very desirable, > > dependency on GUI libs and tools is not desirable. > > With TeXlive, you have the same tools (and more packages) In particular, pdftex and pdflatex are part of my TeXlive installation. Although I would probably try a bit more traditional way first, i.e. latex -> dvi -> dvips -> some ps2pdf converter, I have no idea which "ps2pdf" is better/best. There is also dvipdf. Manpage for pdftex mentions problems with including *.eps figures and *.ps files, if you want to use those, they need to be converted to pdf files first. Disclaimer: I only used pdftex in a simple converter script, scrambling many jpgs into one pdf file, so I have no other real life experience with it. A practical note: I tend to have bigger latex documents in multiple files (one chapter = one file) and keep it organized via Makefile. This can help a lot if one has to convert files, recompute datas and redo plots few times a day. [...] > On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 20:53:46 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > I forgot to mention that I've tried a couple of online editors like > > https://www.sharelatex.com/ but they all lacked Cyrillic support > > miserably (Cyrillic characters either did not show in the compiled > > output, or showed as mojibake). > > Just use a normal editor inside a terminal that can input > and display cyrillic letters. Even ye olde xterm can do it. > Make sure you set your environment variables correctly, > i. e., en_US.UTF-8. > > I have no idea if LyX, the WYSIWYG variant for LaTeX, is > still available. Personally, I prefer YAFIYGI because it > works. Myself, I think for anything bigger than page of text, emacs is the ultimate editor (and I believe it can be setup to handle Cyryllic rather easily, but I have never done this). I also think that WYSIWYG is overhyped. A lot. Of course, using emacs means one has to periodically check the document (i.e. in my case, run make or make view) - which is inevitable anyway, because there might be some bug in a WYSIWYG editor which would only manifest in compiled document. I guess it is less problematic if one goes into straight LaTeX markup from the start. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola@bigfoot.com **
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