Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:06:48 -0500 From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: find sources to build Handbook and FAQ for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <CAJ5UdcOfKT0A2zNDZFqxVyG9wU%2B5MSgDF6WoB1BPx3zHdfYc1Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear folks, Does anyone know where the source(s) for the FreeBSD Handbook and FreeBSD FAQ are found? I have asked this question last month and there have been no answers. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-March/239649.html I want to know because there is a new tex/latex distribution called KerTEX and it has a smaller footprint than texlive and tetex. Since tetex is depracated, and many complain that texlive is too big. I don't mind as I have texlive-freebsd from Romain Tartiere's google code http://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/ but FreeBSD developers don't seem to be interested in updating :( I am also using kerTeX{} Post of availability of kertex for freebsd: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg252529.html http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html I have installed it on my FreeBSD boxes(4+), along with Slackware x86_64, Fedora and in Porteus(slackware|slax based livecd; have some modules readily available) and running it jointly with texlive from texlive-freebsd ports on the FreeBSD boxes. I know that full texlive can compile handbook without problems, but I want to see if I can do the same with kerTeX. NOTE: kertex does not have pdftex, pdflatex, and some things that are in tetex much less in texlive. things like pdfnup, pgf, and other specials are not present. NOTE2: Thanks to the author of kerTeX, tlaronde and to Mark Van Atten, kertex can compile more stuff and more readily available things are found and working. I want to know where can I find the sources to determine what is needed so that if the FreeBSD developers are not willing to move to texlive, they can give kertex a shot? It is small, it does not have as many things that texlive has and tetex for that matter (if size is indeed important). Installing it is no problem in FreeBSD as it works without problems straight from get_mk_install.sh file. But it can be ported to FreeBSD if it meets the developer's(FreeBSD) criteria. It has a BSD style license and is small and ``not heavy''. Any thoughts, ideas, comments or observations on this are greatly appreciated. I don't want to open a can of worms, but I do just want to find out if I can compile the sources(of handbook and faq) with kertex. suppose book.tex, with the many files it needs, then I run $ latex book.tex $ latex book.tex $ makeindex book.tex $ latex book.tex $ dvips -G -t letter -o book.ps book.dvi $ ps2pdf book.ps then open book.pdf with evince, xpdf, okular or other pdf viewer. If we can't do this readily and out of what is available in kertex, then we can find out what is needed and determine how to get it going? There seems to be no new book.pdf(handbook) reflecting the changes in FreeBSD 9.0 except in the Main website where there is an intro to bsd installer :( Best Regards, Antonio
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