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Re: Re: Font problem while running LaTeX



2015-04-13 17:54 GMT+02:00  <carsten.kunze%arcor.de@localhost>:
[Greg's text is the original.]
>> I generally install print/teTeX, which brings in ~everything.  The -bin
>> package is unlikely to be sufficient; I would expect that's an attempt
>> to separate things that go in share and can be used across platforms
>> From things that cannot.
>
> On the teTeX homepage it is writtem:
>
> I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any more (May 2006). The information below might get out of date as time goes by. I suggest anybody interested in teTeX to join the TeX Live project.
>
> Is this still correct? There is also a texlive package in pkgsrc. Can it be assumed that texlive is more up-to-date than teTeX (on NetBSD)?

Yes, TeX Live is much more recent than teTeX. TeTeX is deprecated,
although it can still be useful if all you need to do is to write some
basic TeX or LaTeX documents, but any third-party macros or programs
like pdflatex are woefully old now.

This may be a heretical thing to say on this list (!) but you may want
to consider installing TeX Live outside of pkgsrc
(https://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html). I'm not sure
how up-to-date TeX Live is in pkgsrc.

C.


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