tex, teTex, LaTeX help

[Lowell Gilbert]

Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> writes:

> 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 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.

teTeX still works fine; well enough that I haven't been tempted to try
porting TeXLive yet...

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