On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:33:45AM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > >> > I hoped for a true native port for TeXLive > >> > >> I can't see that it's really necessary. I remember difficulties with the > >> 2009 release when FreeBSD binaries were not included but now they are the > >> installation is headache-free. > >> > > > > What exactly is missing from teTeX? > > Try this, get the source for a free college Algebra Book: > > http://www.stitz-zeager.com/Precalculus/Stitz_Zeager_Open_Source_Precalculus_files/SZPreCalc07152011SourceCode.zip > > Use this script to generate the book: > > name it genAlgTrigBook > chmod +x genAlgTrigBook > and run > $ ./genAlgTrigBook > with in the SZPreCalc0715201 folder after extracting the zip file with > command unzip SZPreCalc07152011SourceCode.zip > > ==================================================== > #!/bin/sh > > # change JPG to jpg since *nix systems are case sensitive > for i in `find . -name "*JPG"` > do > mv "$i" "$(echo $i|sed 's/JPG/jpg/g')" > done > sleep 5; > pdflatex AlgTrigBook.tex -interaction=nonstop > sleep 2; > for i in *.mp > do > mpost $i > done > sleep 5; > pdflatex AlgTrigBook.tex -interaction=nonstop > sleep 5; > makeindex AlgTrigBook > sleep 5; > pdflatex AlgTrigBook.tex -interaction=nonstop > ==================================================== > > Can you fully compile the book without errors?
no my mpost ( /usr/local/bin/mpost was installed by package teTeX-base-3.0_22 mpost -version MetaPost 0.641 (Web2C 7.5.4) kpathsea version 3.5.4 ) doesn't seem to understand *.mp files generated: % mpost CartesianPlane This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.5.4) (CartesianPlane.mp (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/metapost/mfpic/grafbase.mp) (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/metapost/mfpic/dvipsnam.mp)) * (Please type a command or say `end') * -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
