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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:05:59 +0100
From:      Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org>
To:        "Joey Mingrone" <joey@mingrone.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tex, teTex, LaTeX help
Message-ID:  <86ej5bs3ns.fsf@nowhere.org>
In-Reply-To: <f5b896260807300900o16f33f19h82b06781a51c8962@mail.gmail.com> (Joey Mingrone's message of "Wed\, 30 Jul 2008 13\:00\:00 -0300")
References:  <f5b896260807300900o16f33f19h82b06781a51c8962@mail.gmail.com>

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"Joey Mingrone" <joey@mingrone.org> writes:

> I've been told that LaTeX is probably the best solution for creating
> scientific papers with math fonts, so I'm trying to get a working
> installation.

A noble ambition!

> fonts, but it seems they are in the teTex port, but that port
> conflicts with the tex port and it seems teTex is no longer being
> updated.

Alas the news about teTeX is true.

> Is there a guide for getting all this set up, or can some kind soul
> suggest a installation method that works well for them?

Have you had a look at TeXLive?


http://www.tug.org/texlive/

For FreeBSD that means downloading the iso, mounting it like this


mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /path/to/file.iso` /mount-point

cd to the mount point and look out for script entitled install-tl.sh

the script pretty well takes you through the installation


Good luck!


atb



Glyn



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