tex in pld

Pawel Golaszewski blues at pld-linux.org
Wed May 7 10:50:13 CEST 2008


On Sat, 3 May 2008, Tomasz Pala wrote:
> > Unmaintained tetex will finally dissapear from ftp... that is why I'm 
> > asking what will be lost/broken when replacing tetex with texlive...
> If so - better ask about incompatibilities.

I was thinking about "incompatibilities" saying "broken" :)

> I've got dozens of macros, workarounds and other solutions for LaTeX, 
> but some of them may be tetex specific, dunno.

I will take a look how is it made in ubuntu in a few days...
They have livetex...

Anyway - we won't see it if we won't try... :(

> > If nothing and one can replace another we could consider putting tetex 
> > to (un)supported and texlive to main...
> There were differences even between tetex versions - after transition to
> 3.0 I compared dvi files generated by former tetex 2.0 and I've noticed
> different kerning (IMO it got worse).

Well - docs I was generating were better after switch 2->3

I think it depends what are you using...

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