Russell L. Harris schrieb am 23.11.2006 08:07: > I just discovered a May 2006 announcement by Thomos Esser that he has > decided not to make additional new releases of teTeX; he recommends > that those interested in teTeX join the TeXlive project. > > For me, this announcement brings up the question of how teTeX, aucTeX, > TeXlive, etc., relate to the realm of TeX. I Googled for a while, but > I found no document which provides an overview showing the role served > by the various packages.
teTeX and TeXLive are so called distributions of a TeX system as Debian is one of the many distributions of a GNU/Linux system. TeXLive usually has more recent packages than teTeX because it is released every year whereas teTeX wasn't[1]. AUCTeX[2] is an extension for the Emacs editor to facilitate writing of .tex and related files and doesn't ship with teTeX or TeXLive---it has to be installed separately (AFAIK). >>From Synaptic, it appears that my recent installation of Etch is using > tetex, and that neither auctex or texlive are installed. > I have been using LaTeX for five years, but with Debian I always have > taken the system for granted -- it always has been there, and it "Just > Works". > > Is this going to change in the near future? No. There's good work done by the Debian teTeX and TeXLive maintainers to allow a smooth migration from teTeX to TeXLive. > Where can I go for a > basic orientation and for more information on the options which are > available to me? As teTeX isn't maintained anymore TeXLive is the future for Unix based systems. But it should make no difference to you---apart from different/newer versions distributed with TeXLive. There's a mailing list for TeX related discussions in Debian. HTH Best, Christoph [1] http://www.tug.org/ftp/historic/systems/teTeX/ [2] http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ -- +++ Typografie-Regeln: http://zvisionwelt.de/downloads.html (1.6) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
