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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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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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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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Regards, |
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Alexandre |
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