tex, teTex, LaTeX help

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 07:17:26PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:05:59 +0100, Glyn Millington <glyn at millingtons.org> wrote:
> > "Joey Mingrone" <joey at 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 expect that teTeX will be removed as soon as TeXLive is ported. IIRC,
some people are working on that. A problem is that TeXLive has an
interactive install script. I'm not sure how well that matches with ports.

> (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.

Basic installation is very easy, just use the install script on the
CD. If you have to build you own binaries (only i386 6.x binaries are
supplied on the CD), it is somewhat more involved. Basically, you need
to patch a makefile to remove some omega stuff that won't build. I have
some notes from my last build that I could send you if you like.

If more people are interested I could post them on the list.

Roland
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