Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2012-06-28 Thread Sam Kuper
On 1 October 2011 05:11, Scott Webster sewebs...@gmail.com wrote: I don't claim to have all the answers, but recently when I had to compile a new latex document I got from a colleague I found that it was not compatible with the macports versions.  So I installed MacTex2011.  It has a great

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-10-01 Thread Dan Ports
MacTeX and MacPorts are, for the most part, going to install the same version of the same TeX Live software, so it largely comes down to which package manager you'd like to use. The major differences are: - MacTeX includes the entire distribution (which makes it pretty large). The texlive

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-10-01 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Sam, I a little something as a important side note. MacTeX does work well with Macports. You have to change the config-file of MacPorts to look for the existence of the MacTeX binaries. Sorry, I can not remember which. Of course It may not work anymore. At least I am happy with MacTeX.

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-10-01 Thread Sam Kuper
On 1 October 2011 10:04, Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de wrote: (Snip) MacTeX does work well with Macports. You have to change the config-file of MacPorts to look for the existence of the MacTeX binaries. Sorry, I can not remember which. Of course It may not work anymore. At least I am

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-10-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Oct 1, 2011, at 07:53, Sam Kuper wrote: On 1 October 2011 10:04, Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de wrote: (Snip) MacTeX does work well with Macports. You have to change the config-file of MacPorts to look for the existence of the MacTeX binaries. Sorry, I can not remember which. Of

MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-09-30 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, This thread was prompted by another thread I started recently, which has since been resolved: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2011-September/025653.html I installed MacTex a couple of years ago, and although I'm not currently using LaTeX for anything, I may want or

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-09-30 Thread Scott Webster
I don't claim to have all the answers, but recently when I had to compile a new latex document I got from a colleague I found that it was not compatible with the macports versions. So I installed MacTex2011. It has a great prefpane to let you switch which tex distribution you want to have active

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-09-30 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Unless disk space is tight, or theres the potential for path confusion that couldnt be trivially avoided if one had both, I'd ask which had the best record of staying reliable and up-to-date. And not everyone wants to wait however long it takes for all the TeX stuff and its dependencies to

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-09-30 Thread Scott Webster
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: I imagine that if all the components were in MacPorts, it would be easy enough to have a meta-port that just existed to give single name to cause all the rest to be installed. Probably if you install texlive+full

Re: MacTex vs MacPorts

2011-09-30 Thread Mark Anderson
I've been meaning to make a BibDesk port for a while now. I don't recognize the others. Otherwise, MacPorts is pretty up to date. Especially if you install texlive+full Mark On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Scott Webster sewebs...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Richard L.