On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:03:24AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 05:08:16PM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > I would advise you to get TeXLive instead, but that is just me. You > > > can install from TeXLive DVD, or go get a DVD with packages: > > > > I would second that. It comes comlete with FreeBSD binaries for i386 and > > amd64 in the 2010 release and installing it is really easy. > > > > what about ia64, sparc64 and the rest?
Those platforms are relatively rare. To the best of my knowledge, only a handful of people (myself included) have requested FreeBSD binaries. And if the TeXLive developers don't have access to the hardware in question... > What exactly is missing from teTeX? > I use latex daily, and so far haven't > found a package which is not already > included as part of teTeX. Of course, > my usage is specific to what I need, > it's not exhaustive. teTeX is missing (among others) luaTeX, a recent conTeXt, pdfjam, Xe(La)TeX, bibtex8, amstex, latexdiff, metafun, pdfnup. A unified diff between the texmf trees from teTeX to TeXLive is 54150 lines, of which 8445 are deletions and 42939 are additions. Also, from the teTeX homepage: I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any more (May 2006). The information below might get out of date as time goes by. I suggest anybody interested in teTeX to join the TeX Live project. So teTeX is effectively EOL. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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