X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4DDED692.1010706@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 18:39:14 -0400 From: Charles Wilson Reply-To: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work? References: <4DDE9CFF.20502@veritech.com> <4DDEA72A.9040102@ece.cmu.edu> <4DDEA80B.7080702@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 5/26/2011 4:47 PM, marco atzeri wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> tetex is dead and buried. >> Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says: >> ----------------------------------------------- >> De-support notice >> >> I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any >> more (May 2006). >> ----------------------------------------------- >> >> In fact, newer (la)tex packages tend not to work with tetex. >> >> Perhaps it is time for cygwin to switch to Tex Live. > > feel free to volunteer for packing it. Well, hold on there, cowboy. Jan Nieuwenhuizen is listed as the teTeX maintainer for cygwin; I think to proper course is to ask Jan to update/switch cygwin's TeX system to TeX Live, and make the case for why it should happen. I think "teTeX has been dead upstream for five years" is a pretty good argument, actually. 'Course, we haven't heard from Jan since last Novemeber http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-11/msg00422.html so... Jan? You still there? -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple