On 6/22/07, Nicolas FRANCOIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a regular (La)TeX user, and I've allways been satisfied by teTeX, > especially the last 3.0 version. But on the teTeX site, it is mentionned > that this distribution is no longer supported, and that any user > interested should report to the TeXlive project. > > Is there any plan to switch from teTeX (which starts to become old > fashionned regarding upgrades of quite a lot of packages) to any other > distribution ? And in this case, which one ? > > Thanks for any help. I'm going to look at TeXlive (even if I don't like > some things, like the use of pdfLaTeX which prevents my mpost files from > being correctly processed, like teTeX did).
I'm not opposed to switching away from tetex if it's no longer supported, but I really don't use TeX much and have no idea about the difficulty in transitioning to a new system. It does appear that texlive is the preferred new version and that there have been many improvements. http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/live.html#x1-6500010 One issue I see is that the source tarball isn't versioned: http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/Source/ It would be difficult to track development status in that case, but not impossible. It appears texlive is available in debian, and will be the default eventually: http://lists.debian.org/debian-tex-maint/2007/04/msg00130.html Someone with a lot more TeX knowledge than me would have to weigh in. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
