Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Polytropon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:05:59 +0100, Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>> wrote:
>>> "Joey Mingrone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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...

I forgot to mention that the FreeBSD documentation project
(textproc/docproj*) still uses teTeX, so I keep that installed anyway.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
                http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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