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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: LaTeX now available for FreeBSD (was: Latex, and Pascal) Date: 8 Nov 1993 01:53:59 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 37 Message-ID: <2bk8rn$57a@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CFzyvF.As8@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <2bdua3$m92@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2bdua3$m92@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: >In article <CFzyvF.As8@latcs1.lat.oz.au>, >M.C. Wong <wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wrote: >> >> Just wonder if a real port of Latex has been done on FreeBSD ? Or has anyone >>managed to compile it and get it working without much problem ? I will need it >>quite urgently, so any hack will do for now. > Well, because of the guilt and condemnation I felt, I did all my changes to the TeX tree we had available, and I made a binary TeX package for FreeBSD. I haven't had any problems with it at all. Kudos go to Gunther Schadow who did the original port to 386BSD, and later FreeBSD. The package contains TeX and friends(LaTeX, etc.), xdvi, dvips and a couple other dvi converters that I have no experience with. Both dvips and xdvi will build any necessary fonts they need on the fly. I recommend getting ghostscript and ghostview as well, and for those folks who are doing some serious TeX'ing, Auc-TeX in conjunction with Emacs or Lucid Emacs (my fav.) takes most of the work out of using TeX/LaTeX. Available where all the great FreeBSD software is found. :) FreeBSD.cdrom.com:pub/FreeBSD/packages/TeX3.14_bin.tgz (The package isn't too large, ~6 MB with no fonts considering what you get) Enjoy, Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me