Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:15:43 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Mark Blackman <mark.blackman@netscalibur.co.uk> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, 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: <20010611161543.Q51888@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20010611095054.A99420@admin4.dircon.net>; from mark.blackman@netscalibur.co.uk on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:50:54AM %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> <20010611095054.A99420@admin4.dircon.net>
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Mark Blackman said on Jun 11, 2001 at 09:50:54: > > 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. > > > > > 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. I don't think pdflatex is in the latex port. It is a separate project, bundled with tetex. Of the current ports/print tree, only teTeX seems to include it. /usr/ports/print>grep pdflatex */pkg-plist teTeX/pkg-plist:bin/pdflatex teTeX/pkg-plist:man/man1/pdflatex.1 teTeX/pkg-plist:share/texmf/pdftex/latex/config/pdflatex.ini teTeX/pkg-plist:share/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt teTeX/pkg-plist:share/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.log /usr/ports/print> So one either needs to create a separate pdf(la)tex port, or use ghostview to convert ps (from latex+dvips) to pdf; but the latter is not so efficient. - Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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