Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:05:22 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com>, af300wsm@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which latex should I install Message-ID: <20090627070522.GA70447@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090627011455.a6078fa0.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <b6c05a470906260541v275b3cccrd2a46f19e333c291@mail.gmail.com> <001e680f0e34832979046d404faf@google.com> <b6c05a470906260632h7717a5f1md7f14136b538071@mail.gmail.com> <20090627011455.a6078fa0.freebsd@edvax.de>
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--vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:14:55AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:32:31 -0400, Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.co= m> wrote: > > Hopefully Polytropon will chime in on this, but I had to install > > TeXLive for everything to work. >=20 > Ere I am, J. H., the ghost in the machine. :-) >=20 > I've never tried TeXLive, I have to admit, because I NEVER had ANY > problem using the teTeX package. And yes, I don't build it from > source because pkg_add -r is so much comfortable. TeXLive now has FreeBSD binary packages (i386 & amd64) as well. > > Suggestion: try teTeX. If you encounter problems, then install TeXLive. >=20 > It would be nice to hear what - in such a case - has been the > problem with teTeX that TeXLive then solved. As I said, I never > found myself in such a situation, and I'm using LaTeX for > nearly everything. There are a lot of things that TeXLive has that teTeX doesn't; - latin modern fonts [http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-moder= n] - tex gyre fonts [http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/] Both of these font families have a much greater range of diacretical markers available. And they look very good. Latin Modern is an expanded and improved version of Computer Modern. Both families are written as OpenType fonts. - XeTeX [http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=3Dnrsi&item_id= =3Dxetex] Better support for typesetting in non-european languages. - LuaTeX [http://www.luatex.org/] Integration of the Lua scripting language into TeX. This will make TeX more powerfull, and the writing of macro packages easier. - conTeXt [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConTeXt] - more recent releases, with updated macro packages. - more macro packages available and integrated. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkpFxLIACgkQEnfvsMMhpyU8AwCgm2Of1D10g3pMj8/EFpECFHXY D9YAn0ibu+p4XZuGsiS7cZp+nJ+N3pNF =WN0G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd--
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