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On 5/26/2011 6:39 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> 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.

> 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?

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.  (I did it
to have a version more similar to that of some colleagues,
with whom I am working on a book.)  So ... I am not sure that
there is any great benefit to a cygwin-specific version.

Best wishes -- Eliot Moss

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