From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 03:57:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5389637B401 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 03:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-da-1.dns-solutions.net (unknown [69.12.117.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B57C943FBF for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 03:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matthew@starbreaker.net) Received: (qmail 86485 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2003 10:57:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO host62.209-113-232.oem.net) (matthew@starbreaker.net@209.113.232.62) by mail-da-1.dns-solutions.net - 209.113.232.62 with SMTP; 18 Jul 2003 10:57:29 -0000 From: Matthew Graybosch Organization: starbreaker.net To: Scott Mitchell Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:57:33 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030718082513.GA15448@lothlorien.nagual.st> <20030718091102.GA5243@llama.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <20030718091102.GA5243@llama.fishballoon.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307180657.33465.matthew@starbreaker.net> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: latex and latex2e X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: matthew@starbreaker.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:57:31 -0000 On Friday 18 July 2003 05:11 am, Scott Mitchell wrote: > I'm pretty certain teTeX uses some version of LaTeX2e -- it's been > the 'standard' LaTeX for many years now. Probably you can just run > 'latex' and it'll tell you what version it is. Well, LaTeX2e is just a set of TeX macros. Running "latex --version", I got the following output. TeX (Web2C 7.4.5) 3.14159 kpathsea version 3.4.5 Copyright (C) 1997-2003 D.E. Knuth. Kpathsea is copyright (C) 1997-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is covered by the terms of both the TeX copyright and the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING and the TeX source. Primary author of TeX: D.E. Knuth. Kpathsea written by Karl Berry and others. > teTeX includes pretty much everything you're likely to need for > TeX/LaTeX work. The only things I ever added were the LyX editor > and a few fonts. LyX is a truly excellent program -- I used it to > write my PhD dissertation, and laughed at the other people > struggling to do theirs in Word :-) Scott's right. Once you've installed teTeX all you need are some fonts, maybe a class package or two. LyX really works well; by itself it's enough to do just about everything you need. I use it to write letters and to work on my novel, and convinced my girlfriend to use it instead of AbiWord. I would recommend either tth or latex2html if you need to convert TeX to HTML. tth renders your TeX file as a single HTML page, and latex2html breaks it up into nodes by chapter and section. -- Matthew Graybosch http://www.starbreaker.net "I am become root, shatterer of kernels."