Re: teTeX

2008-05-10 Thread Edd Barrett
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One could also argue that much finer TeXLive port could have been done as certain parts of TeXLive experience rapid development. I think that would be making work for the sake of it. TeXLive release once a year, so

Re: teTeX

2008-05-09 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Olivier Mehani wrote: On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:23:46AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: I've been trying to find TeX for 4.3 but can not find it in ports. teTeX is obsolete and unmaintained for more than three years. TeXLive is the next standard TeX distribution for Unix and Unix like

Re: teTeX

2008-05-09 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 02:24:56AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: I am not sure I understand your last question. How can you do typesetting without displaying graphics? TeXLive does not require X for processing but in order to see your document you need to use xdvi, ghostview or something

Re: teTeX

2008-05-09 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 02:24:56AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: I am not sure I understand your last question. How can you do typesetting without displaying graphics? TeXLive does not require X for processing but

Re: teTeX

2008-05-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 02:24:56AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Olivier Mehani wrote: On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:23:46AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: Are you aware of any no_x11 version? I am not sure I understand your last question. How can you do typesetting without displaying

Re: teTeX

2008-05-09 Thread Martin Schröder
2008/5/9 Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The X libraries are required in order to generate PDF's even if there is no GUI. This is only true for xetex; pdftex doesn't need X. And xetex doesn't need a running X server. :-) Best Martin

Re: teTeX

2008-05-09 Thread Edd Barrett
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, I need to send a formatted document to a non unix user and the best common display format is pdf. So, I make a pdf of my document and email it to them. Also no need for displaying or X. Are there other ports that

Re: teTeX

2008-05-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-05-09, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there other ports that require X11 for internal use even if you don't need to display? Yes, it's pretty common for ports that allow user-defined fonts (e.g. GD, RRD) to pull in fontconfig from xbase. If so, perhaps the xbase

Re: teTeX

2008-05-09 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 02:24:56AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Olivier Mehani wrote: On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:23:46AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: Are you aware of any no_x11 version? I am not sure I understand your last question. How can