Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-26 Thread Christoph Martin
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all Why don't we reorganize TeX for debian as follows: get rid of unneccessary older TeX packages (which I understand are buggy) and replace them with teTeX. That is, we use teTeX as the basis for debian TeX stuff. Then we could value add to teTeX

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-21 Thread Steve Dunham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Seelig) writes: Actually i thought that teTeX was supposed to and is the solution for what you seem to recognize as Debian's confused TeX direction!? IMHO the fact that teTeX has become part of Debian is a major reason to consider installing Debian. I suppose that

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-21 Thread Paul Seelig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Dunham) writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Seelig) writes: consider installing Debian. I suppose that teTeX is at the moment the state of the art of all the Unix TeX distributions available. web2c-7.0 is the state of the art.

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-21 Thread Johann Spies
On 21 Apr 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: web2c-7.0 is the state of the art. Which in turn contains lots of improvements by Thomas Esser who does designe teTeX. The upcoming teTeX release will be based on web2c-7.0 or later. So the development of teTeX and web2c are actually strongly related to

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-19 Thread Mark Phillips
Paul Seelig writes: Mark Phillips writes: I think it is in Debian's interest to think carefully about how to get the best possible TeX distribution. I think for a lot of people, having a great TeX distribution would be a major selling point for the distribution. At the moment,

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-18 Thread Mark Phillips
Has anyone else tried NTeX at all? I have that installed here; I chose it because it comes with more documentation than teTeX did. The installer is Debian compatible; it even provides the right packages for things that depend on them. AFAIR Debian came with NTeX before. I seem to

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-18 Thread Paul Seelig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Phillips) writes: I think it is in Debian's interest to think carefully about how to get the best possible TeX distribution. I think for a lot of people, having a great TeX distribution would be a major selling point for the

Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Mark Phillips
I notice there are several teTeX packages available. Have many people tried them? Are there any problems with the packages or are they stable enough for me to install them and be confident things are going to work properly? Is the teTeX distribution complete, or is it missing a few things?

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: I notice there are several teTeX packages available. Have many people tried them? Are there any problems with the packages or are they stable enough for me to install them and be confident things are going to work properly? While installing it is a

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 17, Mark Phillips wrote I notice there are several teTeX packages available. Have many people tried them? Are there any problems with the packages or are they stable enough for me to install them and be confident things are going to work properly? Is the teTeX distribution

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Andreas Tille writes: On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: I notice there are several teTeX packages available. Have many people tried them? Are there any problems with the packages or are they stable enough for me to install them and be confident things are going to work

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 17, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote Has anyone else tried NTeX at all? I have that installed here; I chose it because it comes with more documentation than teTeX did. The installer is Debian compatible; it even provides the right packages for things that depend on them. AFAIR Debian came

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Has anyone else tried NTeX at all? I have that installed here; I chose it because it comes with more documentation than teTeX did. The installer is Debian compatible; it even provides the right packages for things that depend on them. I'm a

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Paul Seelig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Schulze) writes: Anyway there should be sufficient documentation about LaTeX across the net. I just re-read the german lkurz alias LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung. I'm sure that a similiar english document does exist, too. Actually