XDVI, LaTeX, teTeX dependencies

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:20:05AM +0100, Holger Jorra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know that this is not only a FreeBSD issue, but I don't know where else I 
> should ask. First, this issue has been brought up here in a different way 3 
> years ago, but there seems to be no solution, yet. [1]
> 
> I use Latex for documentation and presentations of my work. My problem is that 
> I still haven't found a working DVI-Viewer in FreeBSD without installing the 
> whole KDE-dependencies (KDVI). Latex compiles into dvi files.

(La)TeX can also generate PDF directly with pdf(la)tex. See
/usr/ports/print/teTeX-base/pkg-plist.

> So either I use 
> teTex (as the thread [1] recommends) but which is not supported anymore [2] 
> and cannot use XDVI, or I install the latex-package and will not be able to 
> use other Latex-tools like dvips and cannot print or share it.

It it not in ports (yet) but I think currently the best solution is to
install the TeXLive distribution that you can download from CTAN. It is the
most comprehensive TeX distribution out there. 

Roland
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