Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-04-08 Thread nomnex
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:21:13 -0700 (PDT) Antonio Olivares olivares14...@yahoo.com wrote: snip Could show me how to set the paths correctly on a default LXDE F-15 install? Thanks. -- In ~/ your home directory create a file ~/.bash_profile if it does not exist, or edit it if it

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-04-01 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 05:40, nomnex nom...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:46:26 +0100 Piscium grok...@gmail.com wrote: It is also possible to download it. I did that last week (TexLive 2011 from upstream via mirror). It was straightforward, the only special thing needed is to set

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-31 Thread Piscium
On 30 March 2012 02:11, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@yahoo.com wrote: If I want some real work done, I just install TeXLive from DVD and I am good to go. It is also possible to download it. I did that last week (TexLive 2011 from upstream via mirror). It was straightforward, the only

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-31 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Fri, 3/30/12, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: From: Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu Subject: Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Friday, March 30, 2012, 8:56 PM Antonio Olivares wrote: ``The packaging and patents

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-31 Thread Neal Becker
You can have texlive 2011 if you like: [texlive] name=TeX Live baseurl=http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/texlive/2011/packages.fc16/ enabled=1 metadata_expire=1d gpgcheck=0 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-31 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Sat, 3/31/12, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: From: Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com Subject: Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Saturday, March 31, 2012, 8:33 AM You can have texlive 2011 if you like: [texlive

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-31 Thread Rex Dieter
Antonio Olivares wrote: I know that, but it* is unofficial :(, it is crippled*, it is = official TeXLive :(, It will be because of patents* You continue to make the assertion that fedora's (official or unofficial) texlive is crippled, particularly due to patents. Can you provide details or

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-31 Thread Rex Dieter
Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 03:30 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: KerTeX is not the one being reviewed or is it? KerTeX is just another packaging of all the components that have been collected around TeX and LaTeX. It's not the packaging that's of concern here, it's the

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-31 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/31/2012 11:54 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: Exactly, and in particular, any complaint about items removed from texlive due to this would apply equally to any KerTeX fedora packaging as well. One thought: is it important that you use TeX or just that you be able to format/typeset long documents,

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-31 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Sat, 3/31/12, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: From: Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu Subject: Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Saturday, March 31, 2012, 11:53 AM Antonio Olivares wrote: I know

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-31 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Rex, On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 20:53, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: You continue to make the assertion that fedora's (official or unofficial) texlive is crippled, particularly due to patents. Can you provide details or evidence of that? I use the TeXLive DVD because among other

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-31 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 23:48, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rex, On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 20:53, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: You continue to make the assertion that fedora's (official or unofficial) texlive is crippled, particularly due to patents. Can you

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-31 Thread nomnex
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:46:26 +0100 Piscium grok...@gmail.com wrote: It is also possible to download it. I did that last week (TexLive 2011 from upstream via mirror). It was straightforward, the only special thing needed is to set the paths, and the install tool at the very end helpfully

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-31 Thread Antonio Olivares
It is also possible to download it. I did that last week (TexLive 2011 from upstream via mirror). It was straightforward, the only special thing needed is to set the paths, and the install tool at the very end helpfully reminds one to do it. When installing from the DVD, the setup

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-30 Thread Rex Dieter
Antonio Olivares wrote: ``The packaging and patents are issues that hold TeXLive in Fedora back'' Imo, this is a mischaracterization. Read for yourself: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/TeXLiveLegalAudit#Why_and_how_to_do_a_legal_audit.3F -- rex -- users mailing list

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-29 Thread Rex Dieter
Antonio Olivares wrote: Since Fedora still uses texlive2007 on fedora[except the ones using texlive-repos by J Novy http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive ] The packaging and patents are issues that hold TeXLive in Fedora back. KerTEX is BSD licensed and has no such issues. Are

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Thu, 3/29/12, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: From: Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu Subject: Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012, 4:22 PM Antonio Olivares wrote: Since Fedora still uses

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
@all who have tried to install kerTeX and have failed, what is needed? 1) make sure that Development Tools is installed, if it is not then, as root user # yum groupinstall Development Tools 2) install flex-static, flex and bison are installed but libl.a, or libfl.a are not in /usr/lib/ or

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Tue, 3/27/12, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Antonio Olivares olivares14...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 4:23 PM

in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-14 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, This is an FYI, there is a new lightweight simple TeX/LaTeX distrubution called KerTeX. http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html It is lightweight, requires few things like bison, flex, ed, lftp, all of which are available in Fedora. It does not have pdflatex, pdftex, dvipdfm,

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-14 Thread Andras Simon
2012/3/14, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@yahoo.com: NOTES: User texifies, latexifies file, tex filename.tex, latex filename.tex, then runs $ dvips -o filename.dvi filename.ps You probably meant dvips -o filename.ps filename.dvi or $ dvips -t letter filename.dvi filename.ps then can

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-14 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Wed, 3/14/12, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote: From: Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com Subject: Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 11:42 AM 2012/3/14, Antonio

Re: in case you did not know about kerTeX distribution

2012-03-14 Thread Andras Simon
2012/3/14, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@yahoo.com: $ ps2pdf filename.ps ps2pdf filename.ps filename.pdf In this case, $ psd2pdf filename.ps will work by itself unless you want to give (output pdf) a new name $ ps2pdf filename.ps other-name.pdf I didn't know that! (Well, yes,