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On Saturday 14 January 2006 13:24, Alexandre Buisse wrote: |
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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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I am using tetex-3 on my amd64 system, I haven't had any problems with it so |
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far in what I do. I will certainly test the new version and put it through |
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its paces as I write up my thesis! |
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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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I will try to find some time to test that out as I get chance on amd64. |
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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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If I can find time I may well be able to help you out a little with that. It |
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is looking good already. I write my presentations in LaTeX beamer, and use |
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Kile as an editor. Although I have also converted people to the ways of LaTeX |
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using the easy entry LyX affords you ;) |
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