Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: W. Greenhouse Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.slackware Subject: Re: TeX and Scribus Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 14:15:22 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: <87y48srvk5.fsf@example.com> References: <6e43b61d-fa80-4314-8631-ba6e7ac845e9@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="82b29b7ac82c3b69bb82221248a41913"; logging-data="13145"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX188ZG9pJcTiY7FaNeeVeAJ/" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gsxHVMUXwl36kLzowO2Nbcn1L5w= sha1:Te9EFsNLq0Eouw5nOTcnEAoOOY4= Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux.slackware:26608 Joost Kremers writes: > And if you're working with (La)TeX documents created by others, then > teTeX just won't do. Plain old TeX documents might still compile, > but modern LaTeX documents with any complexity beyond the basic > stuff most likely won't. I use Slackware and its TeTeX to produce legal and research documents (mostly using the Memoir style with my own tweaks) and business letters (using KOMAScript). I can certainly second what Joost says regarding documents produced by other tex users; sometimes tweaks have to be made to account for features from newer versions of those libraries/style files that don't exist yet in tetex. I disagree, though, that TexLive is necessarily too large for distribution with Slackware. TexLive is modular; there are more options than distributing the whole multi-gigabyte sumo edition. TexLive also provides the ability to install luatex, xetex, and context in addition to the usual [pdf]latex. Would it be against Slackware philosophy to ship a minimal texlive with its own user-level package manager (tlmgr) enabled and usable? I mean, Slackware ships CPAN already, which is similar in concept. -- Peace, WGG