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Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?


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.
>> 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.
> 
> feel free to volunteer for packing it.

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?

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Chuck

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