Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 16:35:58 +0100 From: "Mark Blackman" <mark.blackman@netscalibur.co.uk> To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: RELNOTESng now default in 4-STABLE, *.TXT files rem oved Message-ID: <200106081535.QAA59472@mailhost2.dircon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG of "Fri, 08 Jun 2001 16:22:00 BST." <200106081522.f58FM0X95763@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
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teTeX is to laTeX as Office 2000 is to Word 2000. teTeX is simply a tightly integrated set of packages that you might ever want to use with tex and laTeX. laTeX itself however is the core macro processing package, which depends on tex for the typesetting. laTeX doesn't depend on *any* X libraries or ghostscript of any of that nice extra stuff. laTeX only depends on 'tex' itself. I would even go so far as to suggest that it isn't actually appropriate for jadetex to depend on teTeX as I don't think it requires all of that bloatware that teTeX includes. There is even the remote possibility that jadetex only requires tex and not latex. Only somebody who understand jadetex (not me) could confirm that. As Nik is the maintainer I suspect he can answer the question. - Mark > If memory serves me right, Mark Blackman wrote: > > Strictly speaking, we do have laTeX as a separate port which doesn't > > pull in the quite the monstrosities that teTex requires. > > > > In principle, one could either modify the existing jadetex port > > to optionally or exclusively require only laTeX. I presume jadetex > > doesn't fundamentally require much beyond pdf(la)tex (which is in > laTeX). > > > > Latex is pretty big but not quite unthinkably so. > > > > If this functionality (PDF on release) is considered quite nice > > and nobody else wants to jump on it, I might have a go at converting > > the jadetex port with the assistance of the current maintainer. > > Well...jkh and I both like the idea. > > I'm not sure what (if any) other issues there are, since I'm pretty > ignorant of the differences between the laTeX and teTeX ports. > > Another thought: I was just wondering if there might be a way to > disable the xdvi build/install in the teTeX build, so we could just > check for NO_X when building teTeX (the release building process already > defines NO_X, principally for use by print/ghostscript6). I noticed a > whole lot of configure options getting passed as a part of teTeX's > build, but I haven't really investigated. > > Thanks! > > Bruce. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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