Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 09:50:54 +0100 From: Mark Blackman <mark.blackman@netscalibur.co.uk> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, bmah@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: RELNOTESng now default in 4-STABLE, *.TXT files removed Message-ID: <20010611095054.A99420@admin4.dircon.net> In-Reply-To: <01060915110202.54233@clan.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 03:11:02PM %2B0100 References: <200106061634.f56GYlA90861@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010606162900G.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010608085559.A67099@admin4.dircon.net> <01060915110202.54233@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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Experimented briefly (30 minutes) this weekend and discovered that jadetex will need 'latex' at the bare minimum. On top of that, it will require a few extra latex packages (colortbl etc.), which is presumably why teTeX was an attractive option. It only seems to need these for its own documentation but I might have missed further requirements down the line. However, it should be possibly to load the latex packages as extra dependencies either as independent packages (a la the p5 perl modules) or just like a bunch of little patch files that the 'latex' processor sees via a modified path. I'll first try the latter approach and see how far I get. I have a horrible feeling I going to learn more about jadetex than I really want to. - Mark On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 03:11:02PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 08 June 2001 8:55 am, 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. > > That would be me. I know very, very little about TeX. We use teTeX > because the guy that wrote JadeTeX used it, and provide sufficient > documentation that I was able to get it working with the assistance of many > people. > > Please, if you can reduce the size of the TeX dependency then go ahead and > do so. Unfortunately, I won't be much help. > > N > - -- > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ > FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ > > --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAjsiLnYACgkQk6gHZCw343XjvACfaFy3bjS/r1tU+vDJrusiTBsz > J+wAnRg9sVVHK2xV+sAvVZJMHBB8lqiu > =B1X+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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