On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 02:32:35PM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> > Well, is not teTeX 0.4 the *latest* stable version is 2 yrs old. 0.9 is
> > still beta.
>
> teTeX 0.4 is the latest stable distribution of teTeX, not the latest
> stable version of LaTeX. Also, RedHat are quite happily distributing 0.9,
> despite the fact that it's supposedly beta. It's part of RedHat 5.2, and
> indeed I've been using it without a single problem for a few months now.
Have you looked at the docs for 0.9? Can you explain the new texmf.cnf to
me? Where are the precompiled binaries for 0.9? Does 0.9 compile w/o
problems on all platforms 0.4 does? (I *did* have a problem compiling tetex
on my 5.2 box!)
Have you tried to update your LaTeX without teTeX? (Where do you put the
new style, font, etc files in your existing tree; where do you put the new
format files?)
My point is that the average sysadm does not want to bother. TeX is a
beast, and there is a good reason people install tetex and not from the
web2c sources.
>
> This is the problem, though: most people only update LaTeX when their
> distribution changes, and the main Unix distributions, NTeX and teTeX, are
> both getting a bit out of date.
>
Well, even RH waited more than a year to update from .4 to .9. And RH Linux
is not the only Unix LyX is supposed to run on.
I think LyX cannot assume that people are on the bleeding edge with their
LaTeX distr.
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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
