Alexandre Buisse wrote: > Hi, > > for all of you who have been using latex on gentoo, here are some news > on what is currently happening. A news is a good news, glad that there is something happening.
> First of all, we have a new tetex (tetex-3.0_p1). It should have hit the > mirrors this morning. This is not an official release from upstream > (that would be 3.1) but a snapshot of their development tree that > corrects some bugs with the autotools (see bug #113024). If we manage to > solve the etex related problems (all the "Fatal error: I'm stymied"), it > could be a good candidate for stabilisation. > > A very exciting package has been added to portage lately, but it's still > quite experimental : dev-tex/mpm (only keyworded ~x86 and hard-masked at > the moment). It's basically the MikTeX package manager adapted for unix > systems. As the texmf tree is always organized in the same way, it can > interact with tetex quite nicely. Basically, you tell it which package > you want from CTAN and it installs it automatically. It has so far been > tested by a few people, including me, and seems to work fine without > corrupting anything. However, it needs a lot more testing before even > going to ~arch. Please report bugs or success in bug #110494 if you give > it a try. What about having a g-ctan instead? Wasn't there one around, more or less based on g-cpan? > And, last but not least, a LaTeX doc began. It's still a very early > draft but any (constructive) criticism and help is most welcome. The > discussion happens in bug #118405 and the last draft can be found on my > devpage (http://dev.gentoo.org/~nattfodd). Not sure how does the new tetex handle i18n, but less than a year ago I had to use ptex to write Japanese (in euc-jp, AFAIR). There was some rumble about UTF-8 support, but did it get in? I have touched *tex only once (not very successfull because of i18n and windoze interoperability) since I left the university, but might look back again. XML--->PDF is a tempting path, but is yet to be developed to *tex heights. Kalin. -- |[ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ]| +-> http://ThinRope.net/ <-+ |[ ______________________ ]| -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
