Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-25 Thread bigl
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Is this still Debian related? > > > bigl> think that any "censorship" should be used very careful. > > > > Especially when the previous posts were about the shortcomings of the > > Debian LaTeX system and merits of a LaTeX distribution that is

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-25 Thread branderh
> >> Is this still Debian related? > bigl> think that any "censorship" should be used very careful. > > Especially when the previous posts were about the shortcomings of the > Debian LaTeX system and merits of a LaTeX distribution that is a > potential debian package. Such a debian package will

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-25 Thread Billy Chow
> "bigl" == bigl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bigl> On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Is this still Debian related? >> >> Erick >> bigl> As far as I read this list about 70-80% of messages are bigl> "off-topic" but there is no sharp edge between normal unix bigl> questions (o

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-25 Thread bigl
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is this still Debian related? > > Erick > As far as I read this list about 70-80% of messages are "off-topic" but there is no sharp edge between normal unix questions (or specialy about one package) and "Debian questions". I've found on this

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-24 Thread Winfried Truemper
Paul Seelig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Updating of the ls-lR database should only be allowed to root anyway and : not to other users of the system as well! So i don't see the point in : this! The last time I used teTeX it was necessary to allow ordinary users to re-build the database so new pk-

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-22 Thread Paul Seelig
On 21 Sep 1996, Winfried Truemper wrote: > And if several users try to update the ls-lR database, it gets (got) messed > up resulting in a not-working TeX/LaTeX (we had that several times and > therefore stucked with debian-TeX). > Updating of the ls-lR database should only be allowed to root anyw

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-22 Thread Mark Phillips
>Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'd prefer it to be included with Debian in any case > >I second that. I'm using tetex at my debian system without problems. Does anyone know how teTeX compares with NTeX? NTeX is what I have been using. How easy would it be to debianize teTeX?

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-21 Thread Winfried Truemper
Paul Seelig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : hierarchie. To my mind teTeX is the most up to date and most easy to : install and maintain LaTeX system because of it's well thought out design. I did not look into the new 0.4-release, but there was no upgrade-mechianism in the past. And if several users

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-21 Thread branderh
> I installed Debian for the first time two weeks ago and didn't even bother > to install the Debian LaTeX system because i already knew teTeX from > another platform and installed this instantly in the /usr/local/* > hierarchie. To my mind teTeX is the most up to date and most easy to > install an

Re: teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-20 Thread Nils Naumann
Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd prefer it to be included with Debian in any case I second that. I'm using tetex at my debian system without problems. They are only some quirks with dependency conflicts if I install new packages. But they will went away if the tetex package is

teTeX (was Re: dvips top margin)

1996-09-20 Thread Paul Seelig
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Billy Chow wrote: > teTeX is a high quality LaTeX distribution which takes care of these > settings with a nice menu-driven utility. It would be easier to > debianise teTeX than to fix the current Debian LaTeX system (other > I installed Debian for the first time two weeks a