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Alexandre Buisse wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> for all of you who have been using latex on gentoo, here are some news |
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> on what is currently happening. |
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A news is a good news, glad that there is something happening. |
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> First of all, we have a new tetex (tetex-3.0_p1). It should have hit the |
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> mirrors this morning. This is not an official release from upstream |
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> (that would be 3.1) but a snapshot of their development tree that |
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> corrects some bugs with the autotools (see bug #113024). If we manage to |
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> solve the etex related problems (all the "Fatal error: I'm stymied"), it |
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> could be a good candidate for stabilisation. |
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> A very exciting package has been added to portage lately, but it's still |
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> quite experimental : dev-tex/mpm (only keyworded ~x86 and hard-masked at |
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> the moment). It's basically the MikTeX package manager adapted for unix |
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> systems. As the texmf tree is always organized in the same way, it can |
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> interact with tetex quite nicely. Basically, you tell it which package |
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> you want from CTAN and it installs it automatically. It has so far been |
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> tested by a few people, including me, and seems to work fine without |
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> corrupting anything. However, it needs a lot more testing before even |
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> going to ~arch. Please report bugs or success in bug #110494 if you give |
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> it a try. |
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What about having a g-ctan instead? Wasn't there one around, more or less |
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based on g-cpan? |
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> And, last but not least, a LaTeX doc began. It's still a very early |
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> draft but any (constructive) criticism and help is most welcome. The |
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> discussion happens in bug #118405 and the last draft can be found on my |
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> devpage (http://dev.gentoo.org/~nattfodd). |
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Not sure how does the new tetex handle i18n, but less than a year ago I had |
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to use ptex to write Japanese (in euc-jp, AFAIR). There was some rumble |
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about UTF-8 support, but did it get in? |
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I have touched *tex only once (not very successfull because of i18n and |
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windoze interoperability) since I left the university, but might look back |
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again. XML--->PDF is a tempting path, but is yet to be developed to *tex |
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heights. |
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Kalin. |
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