From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 20 09:12:12 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D201089A55 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:12:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: from relay2.tomsk.ru (mail.sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.124.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F67182DDF for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:12:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamd daemon 0.100.1 for FreeBSD at relay.sibptus.ru Received: from [212.73.125.240] (HELO admin.sibptus.transneft.ru) by relay2.tomsk.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPS id 40081266; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:12:09 +0700 Received: from admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (sudakov@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w7K9C9Pe039240; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:12:09 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: (from sudakov@localhost) by admin.sibptus.transneft.ru (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id w7K9C69G039238; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:12:06 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Authentication-Warning: admin.sibptus.transneft.ru: sudakov set sender to vas@mpeks.tomsk.su using -f Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:12:06 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov To: Norman Gray Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The recommended LaTeX port? Message-ID: <20180820091205.GA38355@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> References: <20180819134150.GA18805@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180819161317.9bfdac7f.freebsd@edvax.de> <20180820015337.GA24423@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <8929E48B-15EF-47C7-9F4E-044C0261EA17@glasgow.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8929E48B-15EF-47C7-9F4E-044C0261EA17@glasgow.ac.uk> Organization: AO "Svyaztransneft", SibPTUS X-PGP-Key: http://www.dreamwidth.org/pubkey?user=victor_sudakov X-PGP-Fingerprint: 10E3 1171 1273 E007 C2E9 3532 0DA4 F259 9B5E C634 User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.5 (2018-04-13) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:12:12 -0000 Norman Gray wrote: > > > > Which is *the* \LaTeX distribution for FreeBSD currently? > > I don't know specifically about the 'for FreeBSD' part, but I can make a > couple of points about (La)TeX variants. TeXLive is currently the > dominant TeX distribution. The canonical source of that is > . [dd] > > You might be interested, Victor, in xe(la)tex or lua(la)tex, which are > also in TeXLive. These are two friendly forks of TeX which use Unicode > internally -- so the source file can be cyrilllic with no > \usepackage{inputenc} complications. > > Both XeTeX and LuaTeX also use platform fonts, rather than only TeX or > postscript fonts, which can be very convenient, if you're not concerned > with making your source document portable. There are a few interesting > features which are unique to either XeTeX or LuaTeX -- both of these > are, in a sense, the laboratories of the TeX world -- but the fonts > capability which they both have is the one that most people are > interested in. > > If your goal is to produce documents with Cyrillic content, as > painlessly as possible, True. > than I think you'd be best using XeTeX or > LuaTeX, and restraining yourself from doing anything fancy with fonts. Thanks for the insight, Norman! Are XeTeX and LuaTeX also in the FreeBSD ports collection? I've just installed print/texlive-full, are they part thereof? > ShareLaTeX was acquired by Overleaf.com a little while ago. That > brings the number of such services, that I'm aware of, down to one. I've just received an E-mail from Dr. LianTze Lim of Overleaf Support, with recommendations about enabling Cyrillic. They were very useful. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859