Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:42:01 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tex, teTex, LaTeX help Message-ID: <44ej5bgtg6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20080730191726.9fe406ae.freebsd@edvax.de> (Polytropon's message of "Wed\, 30 Jul 2008 19\:17\:26 %2B0200") References: <f5b896260807300900o16f33f19h82b06781a51c8962@mail.gmail.com> <86ej5bs3ns.fsf@nowhere.org> <20080730191726.9fe406ae.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:05:59 +0100, Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> wrote:
>> "Joey Mingrone" <joey@mingrone.org> writes:
>> > 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.
>
> I'm very sad to hear this, allthough I'm always installing teTeX
> via pkg_add -r, and I never found something not working anymore.
> Is there any consideration to remove teTeX completely from the
> ports tree, or is it still valid to keep using it?
>
> (I use LaTeX for nearly everything: work, documentation, literature,
> even for letters (dinbrief class), so I'm interested in this topic.)
>
> Many thanks for pointing out how to get \LaTeX{} from TeXLive.
teTeX still works fine; well enough that I haven't been tempted to try
porting TeXLive yet...
--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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