Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-27 Thread wynfield
I have installed and use 'texlive 2010', as is, on cygwin with no problem. No need for MikTeX or Windows interfaces. Using TexLive also eases things since it uses normal posix pathnames. Regards, Wynfield -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-27 Thread marco atzeri
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 5/26/2011 4:47 PM, marco atzeri wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik  wrote: tetex is dead and buried. Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says: --- De-support notice I

Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Lee Rothstein
I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never even been able to install it successfully. I admit it, I'm a dolt. Anybody have the magic beans on this? I've tried installing and reinstalling. Never can get it to work. Here's some feedback from my last install attempts: --

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 26/05/2011 2:33 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote: I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never even been able to install it successfully. I admit it, I'm a dolt. Anybody have the magic beans on this? I've tried installing and reinstalling. Never can get it to work. As it happens,

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/26/2011 3:16 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 26/05/2011 2:33 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote: I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never even been able to install it successfully. I admit it, I'm a dolt. Anybody have the magic beans on this? I've tried installing and

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
tetex is dead and buried. Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says: --- De-support notice I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any more (May 2006). --- In fact, newer (la)tex packages

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread marco atzeri
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: tetex is dead and buried. Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says: --- De-support notice I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any more (May 2006).

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 4:47 PM, marco atzeri wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: tetex is dead and buried. Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says: --- De-support notice I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Eliot Moss
On 5/26/2011 6:39 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 5/26/2011 4:47 PM, marco atzeri wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: tetex is dead and buried. Well, hold on there, cowboy. Jan Nieuwenhuizen is listed as the teTeX maintainer for cygwin; I think to proper course is

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 9:13 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: I observe that I installed and use MiKTeX, which is a native Windows TeX/LaTeX, but I call it fine from cygwin scripts and such without difficulty. It was a seamless cutover. Me too. So ... I am not sure that there is any great benefit to a