Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:13:38 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Holger Jorra <holger_jorra@gmx.net> Subject: Re: XDVI, LaTeX, teTeX dependencies Message-ID: <20080129101338.GA15551@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <479E9A09.4090101@math.arizona.edu> References: <200801290320.05387.holger_jorra@gmx.net> <479E9A09.4090101@math.arizona.edu>
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:14:17PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Holger Jorra wrote: > > > >I use Latex for documentation and presentations of my work. My problem is > >that I still haven't found a working DVI-Viewer in FreeBSD without > >installing the whole KDE-dependencies (KDVI). Latex compiles into dvi > > > >So my questions are: Is there a way to bent the dependency of XDVI on > >teTex in general (maybe this is a developers issue, not porters - don't > >know) or is there another small Viewer I may use instead? The other way > >would be much more difficult, I think. Has anyone here a workaround for > >this? Is there a solution in the very near future? > > > > > > > I think you made one of two mistakes. > It is possible that you use teTeX meta port in which case you already > have xdvi, which came as a dependency. > > Second possibility (most likely) is that you are trying to compile wrong > version of xdvi. There is one for teTeX and there is > one for the older ports Latex and TeX. > > You need http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/print/xdvik/pkg-descr That's right. I use teTeX, and as part of the installation I've xdvi. I also get pdflatex (pdfetex), so in some cases I generate pdf directly which I then view with xpdf. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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