Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:12:06 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: Norman Gray <norman.gray@glasgow.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The recommended LaTeX port? Message-ID: <20180820091205.GA38355@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> In-Reply-To: <8929E48B-15EF-47C7-9F4E-044C0261EA17@glasgow.ac.uk> References: <20180819134150.GA18805@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180819161317.9bfdac7f.freebsd@edvax.de> <20180820015337.GA24423@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <8929E48B-15EF-47C7-9F4E-044C0261EA17@glasgow.ac.uk>
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Norman Gray wrote: > > > > Which is *the* \LaTeX distribution for FreeBSD currently? > > I don't know specifically about the 'for FreeBSD' part, but I can make a > couple of points about (La)TeX variants. TeXLive is currently the > dominant TeX distribution. The canonical source of that is > <http://tug.org/texlive/>. [dd] > > You might be interested, Victor, in xe(la)tex or lua(la)tex, which are > also in TeXLive. These are two friendly forks of TeX which use Unicode > internally -- so the source file can be cyrilllic with no > \usepackage{inputenc} complications. > > Both XeTeX and LuaTeX also use platform fonts, rather than only TeX or > postscript fonts, which can be very convenient, if you're not concerned > with making your source document portable. There are a few interesting > features which are unique to either XeTeX or LuaTeX -- both of these > are, in a sense, the laboratories of the TeX world -- but the fonts > capability which they both have is the one that most people are > interested in. > > If your goal is to produce documents with Cyrillic content, as > painlessly as possible, True. > than I think you'd be best using XeTeX or > LuaTeX, and restraining yourself from doing anything fancy with fonts. Thanks for the insight, Norman! Are XeTeX and LuaTeX also in the FreeBSD ports collection? I've just installed print/texlive-full, are they part thereof? > ShareLaTeX was acquired by Overleaf.com a little while ago. That > brings the number of such services, that I'm aware of, down to one. I've just received an E-mail from Dr. LianTze Lim of Overleaf Support, with recommendations about enabling Cyrillic. They were very useful. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859
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