On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <me...@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > 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, This is what I mean. For regular things, TeTeX is fine, but for bigger projects one can't do without texlive. I encountered the same problems with default tetex, but installed TeXLive from DVD and I no longer have these problems :) But like Roland says, some ports depend on teTeX still and this is where I hope that developers find ways around them :) It took me a while to build evince, gnuplot and other math related ports without teTeX port. Regards, Antonio _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"