X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4DDF3ABC.6030801@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 01:46:36 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin Mailing List 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> <4DDED692.1010706@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4DDEFAB6.8020407@cs.umass.edu> In-Reply-To: <4DDEFAB6.8020407@cs.umass.edu> 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 9:13 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > I observe that I installed and use MiKTeX, which is a native > Windows TeX/LaTeX, but I call it fine from cygwin scripts and > such without difficulty. It was a seamless cutover. Me too. > So ... I am not sure that > there is any great benefit to a cygwin-specific version. Integration with other tex-ish tools. I believe Jan's original motivation for providing cygwin-teTeX was as a base for lilypond. -- 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