From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 23 20:45:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA17192 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 20:45:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from css.tuu.utas.edu.au (css.tuu.utas.edu.au [131.217.115.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA17121 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 20:45:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from iaint@css.tuu.utas.edu.au) Received: from localhost (iaint@localhost) by css.tuu.utas.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA04141; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:44:27 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:44:27 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton To: Mark Mayo cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LaTeX - which ports? In-Reply-To: <19980923185053.A28100@vmunix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Mark Mayo wrote: > Silly question. I want to use LaTeX, including xdvi and dvips. > > I see three possible ports, "tex", "latex", and "teTeX". > > How do I proceed? Install the "tex" base, but then latex > or teTeX?? > teTeX should contain everything you ever need, I use a little bit of LaTeX every now and then, and I haven't had to install anything else yet. It contains LaTeX, plain TeX, various other things like dvips, xdvi fonts whatever. > Also, I see seperate ports of dvips and xdvi, do I need to install > those afterwards as well? > Not if you use teTeX Iain -- Iain Templeton, Computer Science Society sysadmin BE (Computer Systems Engineering) 3rd year University of Tasmania, Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message