From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Feb 23 00:03:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA17977 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 00:03:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de ([137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA17971 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 00:03:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA19566; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 09:04:32 +0100 Message-Id: <199602230804.JAA19566@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: help! tex/latex ports problem To: andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 09:04:31 +0100 (MET) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Cc: jkh@freebsd.org, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Andreas Klemm" at Feb 23, 96 00:27:00 am From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > > It seems that Christoph P. Kukulies said: > > > When it comes to tex/latex I'm afraid it comes to one > > > of FreeBSD's weak points. That's where Linux distributions > > > (especially german ~) really shine. > > > > No, just use Thomas Esser's distribution named teTeX. It really shines on > > everything. I use it on SunOS and FreeBSD. It started as a Linux only > > dist. and has now become one of the best TeX/LaTe>X dist IMO. > > Christoph, I have a port in the queue. Finished it this evening... > Only some littel problems, got xtexsh not running, possibly I have > the wrong TCL/TK version installed. And the configuration of teTeX > doesn't run with freebsd's dialog utility in fullscreen mode > (Jordan ?!). But you can use texconfig in batch mode or modify > the config files directly. > > Andreas /// Thanks for the appendix. I did already try teTeX (grabbed the binary dist from our local sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de) - the only thing I found making sense to me was texconfig - I started it, failed miserably and threw in the towel on it. In the meantime I have Latex2e and all the tex stuff working again. What I meant when I said 'Linux distributions shine' was that these distributions are especially made for the german tex user. These distributions seem to have (haven't seen one by myself) a graphical (X/tk based?) installation where you can click TeX in a box. Afaik FreeBSD doesn't aim very much at the end TeX-user but such an option in the install menu wouldn't be that bad. > > begin 664 teTeX.port.tar.gz [..] --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de