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. On 26 May 2011 21:20, Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote: > On 5/26/2011 3:16 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> >> On 26/05/2011 2:33 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote: >>> >>> I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never >>> even been able to install it successfully. >>> >>> I admit it, I'm a dolt. >>> >>> Anybody have the "magic beans" on this? >>> >>> I've tried installing and reinstalling. Never can get it to work. >> >> As it happens, I'm running tetex as we speak. It's never been a problem >> for me, except the time I had MikTex in my cygwin path and the two >> fought. I don't know anything about ec-fonts or jadetex, though. Here >> are the cygwin packages I have installed: >> >> tetex 3.0.0-3 >> tetex-base 3.0.0-3 >> tetex-bin 3.0.0-3 >> tetex-extra 3.0.0-3 >> tetex-tiny 3.0.0-3 >> >>> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> >> You didn't say what OS or version of cygwin you're running, but assuming >> it's 1.7 you might try a fresh install to, say, c:\cygwin-tex, which >> includes only the base packages and tetex. It won't harm your existing >> install in any way, and you should be able to use the saved packages >> from previous downloads rather than having to download again. >> >> If that works you probably have a corrupted cygwin installation (which >> would make sense given all the strange errors you mention); if it >> doesn't work then something really weird is going on. > > Another alternative if the OP wants a modern TeX system is TeX Live > (http://www.tug.org/texlive/). It supports Cygwin OOTB. > > Ken > Dmitrii -- 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
