David L. Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:59:57 +0100
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
abdelkader belahcene wrote:
Hi,
since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead of
tetex, I think it 's time to support the texlive instead of tetex.
[ Now the required latex for lyx 1.4.2 (is tetex) ] or I am wrong ??
I have been using LyX with texlive for half a year now.
This works fine. The only minor problems I have seen
is when the debian-packaged texlive lacks some package
I want, that was distributed with debian's tetex. This have only
happened a couple of times, and of course the missing stuff
worked when I added it to /usr/local.
Heck, I haven't even noticed that. LyX works fine with texlive, in fact I
went to texlive as suggested here about 6 months ago to get rid of a tetex
bug (as packaged in debian etch, at least). Absolutely no issues with
texlive and lyx. In what sense is tetex required for lyx?
Tetex is not required in any way, and never was required.
LyX needs latex - no matter how it is provided.
Linux distro packagings of lyx may have used a dependency on
tetex, on distros where tetex was the main way of distributing latex.
This don't mean that lyx has a preference for tetex.
Also, tetex and texlive doesn't come with exactly the same set of
latex packages. texlive generally has much more, but there
are a few thing in tetex that isn't in texlive too. If you don't happen
to use such packages already, then you won't see a problem.
I believe all latex features used directly by lyx is supported in texlive,
problems will only happen if you add your own latex code in a lyx document
and that code uses some package that isn't in texlive.
Helge Hafting
