2007/1/4, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thursday 04 January 2007 17:34, Michel Di Croci wrote: > | Funny question maybe, is latex dying? I mean if no one replaced > | the maintainer of tetex, is it not a bit risky to continue working > | with this software? We know the power of the software but in the > | long term, we also know that it won't integrated any new > | functionality. > > that's definitely a good point. in general, if microsoft would be > giving up a product, i would worry to use it. but tetex is kind of > only one distribution and source is accessible as far i know, it is > not a dying project, it is the current maintainence that is dying. > latex, or tex in general can be compiled with other engines as > well... so i hope - no, i'm sure that we for quite a long time will > have at least one pkg that is providing one of the tex/latex > interpreters in archlinux. > > that's why i do not consider it risky to use it "in opus" for now. > your point is well taken, and we should check what is happening in > this field - we for sure are not interested to use windows to have a > tex interpreter :)
I've never used anything related to TeX, but AFAIK teTeX is superceded by TeX Live. I don't think TeX is dying. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
