On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > Then I guess I should be installing teTeX as well. I need to do some > TeX'ing but the standard Debian TeX package always seems to come up with > a new problem once I fixed one. > Then you'll be really happy with teTeX! Today i had a notice by Thomas Esser from the teTeX mailing list in my email where he wrote that he was about to release the next teTeX update really soon. He wrote sunday or monday but i'm not sure if he meant this weekend or the next. Anyway he promised that this release will be a 100% uptodate as well. :-) Maybe you should really wait for the brandnew teTeX before you bother about downloading and installation, although upgrading is very well solutioned too. You can find out the nearest CTAN with "finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]".
> The standard TeX package in Debian, is it a completely new TeX > distribution or is it based on some other? > Looks rather like a basic LaTeX/TeX system tailored especially for Debian than a distribution of some sort. But OTOH i never tried it out giving it not even a chance to supply it's services on my machine so i can't really judge about it's quality. I installed teTeX once on a HP-UX machine at work and was surprised how easy and straightforward it went and how complete the provided TeX system actually is. I immediately fell in love with it! ;-) It comes along with very well and extensive documentation. The great thing to my mind is that i never needed to install anything to get a variety of LaTeX files TeXed apart from more obscure stuff like MusiXTeX, the TIPA phonetic fonts and J"org Knappens fcfonts (african fonts). It is a stated goal of Thomas Esser to provide everything described in the "LaTeX Book" and the "LaTeX Companion". Our university here in Mainz has BTW adopted teTeX as the regular LaTeX installation on the campus' Unix cluster and i consider it wonderful to have the same working environment anywhere, be it at home, at work or at the university. :-) > Do you know what NTeX is? I was told it was a good TeX distribution, but > maybe I should try teTeX instead. > NTeX is a very large TeX distribution which was usually provided with Slackware and which is not as well designed and maintained as teTeX. If i were you i wouldn't bother with NTeX especially since it has earned itself the fame of being hard to administrate, a thing teTeX definitely has eased up a lot. Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.