On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:31:08PM +0200, Florian Hengstberger wrote: > A tex live-cd? I wonder why this should be preferable to a port.
TeXLive is a TeX distribution that you can install. I think it also includes a live-cd. > Anyway what's wrong with the latex port. TeXLive contains more packages and they are better integrated. It uses Type1 or TrueType fonts for almost all font families. > But how to go the standard latex, xdvi, dvips way without > dvips? Like it or not, pdf(La)TeX is more and more becoming the standard. Xpdf is fine for viewing pdfs, and runs on more platforms than acrobat. > Finally what about latex3e if the've finished their work?? LaTeX3 (if it is ever finished) will be integrated into the different distributions. OTOH, even Leslie Lamport seems to think that LaTeX will fall into disuse in about five years. The consensus seems to be that ConTeXt is the most modern TeX macro package. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt
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