From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Apr 16 18:44:57 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A082E157A41A for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:44:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.24]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6912972AF9 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:44:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([92.195.126.133]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue107 [212.227.15.183]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 1N94qX-1gkULE3fpH-0164hY; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:39:24 +0200 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:39:21 +0200 From: Polytropon To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: latex on fbsd Message-Id: <20190416203921.6c05390c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <7c7b8992-053a-b22f-da45-b6cfaf3b753b@dreamchaser.org> <20190416132727.7af30132.freebsd@edvax.de> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:GYZUgrbQGwsqfYzAWTTyaKtDDOBn+lORASdM0C2C0x8qPlV7DcF ZJ5fs/RZN7bWiIItDZj2O/7TKXsttUt2+ZIeZyUHB2ndX9JY8z36DkhwDvVUuQVLy4QkhSW SoAjLLLRGQOYPcLCylk/YEVq2KKHFCwaRoGV4enT4TSloWQ4i/CL1uOGgbhYQ4UuLInAWT0 CQYvV0yM2r6ObDekZTBxw== X-Spam-Flag: NO X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:LnB51bMUWI4=:Rxffnxk9taM7hFqDx2melY kYTXjYh7Tsp6mWEX+uK20eIW1Z2W3x68YRL9pNYzbvV1IAkwEbtu60Y9cSwcdIwsYLRi4kjJA +NOu4UdIHS3P+0jotzxRGaoZpxmuRqd6tSKG80RPLluh9Lb5/Ri+E1XNcJCwzUd+CPkBKz0El QHN4iIosVa2dA/EU/p1gmq0u4sCgHmh0/iVi1BvoXUx0NtSzh+Q8xlMkW0NCAJnAC9vkOHb+2 VCg5RMCd/qLFiUnISNqR2R3ZPar0HOe7j6HzKS7sPwEHMbA/DyZoRR48M/y83FUL5cnTS6UA/ sW6ldYUS/7EEXWn6lARPSpQfcbAPP+c74eobxBuRAv04Om4H109IfieQj+vqzg2ncFfTjqlaJ PVycw/TglnhQtnuM5dW+MHK3uD0F2+SOLxf5m8oWXjIaTKek0NPY1Nep97M+mIedbqc0ZEW9F e3NswtvCZRAMEMzjTQVg125fF46peYfu0PY8yQAiJd8EEuhe2GCUpFoHYWb4D3Oehj96RBZV4 cGE0mor00QLlU1Oqy6UnMjNQDkQFxnXsO2bTfJVgkL/6AfnxuA12hiGNO8g339j2ZBriErEgY EvY2G/eoHEubRfea7RvCEfpI+ufCiX44G9JeZ1KdfftnNEACgM+vg5IMUqnFlC4AtKJ1+Sr6W h1+5Hlx2Vms6ZoIQuOPcTkkClJfH9vkhnoJhNrDZ+IuPUIJmGyRHQWI1WdyiZyYGwS0mEM0So YReeBe4ONL5oSvuxpzVAzQZK54KHkak3BB8oE1n24sEaFqfACU0TLTaTTgA= X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 6912972AF9 X-Spamd-Bar: +++++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [5.39 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd@edvax.de]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: mx01.schlund.de]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:8560, ipnet:212.227.0.0/16, country:DE]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[133.126.195.92.zen.spamhaus.org : 127.0.0.10]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; REPLYTO_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.90)[0.904,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[edvax.de]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.95)[0.954,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.97)[0.973,0]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[24.17.227.212.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; MID_CONTAINS_FROM(1.00)[]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; IP_SCORE(0.17)[ip: (0.38), ipnet: 212.227.0.0/16(-1.38), asn: 8560(1.87), country: DE(-0.01)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:44:57 -0000 On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:58:29 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 4/16/19 5:27 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > > Depending on the kind and scope of your work, using "plain > > LaTeX" with your editor of choice, and then simply running > > the command "pdflatex filename.tex", could be the easiest > > thing - less overhead, less distraction, less stuff to manually > > adjust in the GUI. (I'm saying this as a person who does > > 99 % of all paperwork in "plain LaTeX", with the special > > case where LaTeX is generated automatically from special > > tools.) > > Thanks, pdflatex is what I needed to know. > > > On the other hand, starting LaTeX with a WYSIWYG environment > > is nothing bad, as long as you don't look into the horror markup > > it often tends to generate... ;-) > > Thanks for the heads-up; will check that. > For what I'm doing I should only be adding / modifying text, so no > additional markup. If the tool doesn't transform existing stuff it > might work. In this case, I'd think that using a GUI (and configuring it to do what you need it to do) is too much work. You should be able to use your favorite editor together with the command line tools provided from the TeXlive default installation. There is no need to make things more complicated. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...