Hi Kyle,
> Being shocked at the magnitude of texlive I have been investigating
> alternatives. I have put together 4 packages that use the Free Pascal
> compiler to give a minimal working TeX system.
first of all, thank you very much. I finaly got around to this,
and I am delighted by the simplicity of this old distribution.
> This is WEB, a literate programming system for Pascal.
> Depending on devel/web, this is METAFONT ...
> Depending on print/metafont, this port creates the Computer Modern
> Depending on fonts/tex-fonts and devel/web this is TEX
I can confirm thqt it works: installing all four,
I can compile my old TeX files (before switching to latex like everyone).
Obviously, I had to uninstall texlive because of the name conflicts.
> Capable enough to create books like the TeXbook and MFbook, for example.
After removing the copyright errmsg:
$ tex texbook.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.141592653 (OpenBSD) (no format preloaded)
(texbook.tex (/usr/local/share/tex/manmac.tex) [-1983] [-1984] [-1]
! Font \pearsonkluj=arial at 9.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
l.149 \font\pearsonkluj=arial at 9pt
But other than that, yes, it compiles the TeXbook.
> /usr/local/share/doc/tex/*.dvi.
Ah, long winter nights.
Some of the manpages apparently got behind (no surprise),
for example dvitype(1) says "dvitype dvi_file_name" and
"the output always goes to dvitype.out", but actually
$ dvitype tangle.dvi
Usage: dvitype dvi_file typ_file
The tex21-210131 tarball comes from
http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/knuth/
- who prepares these, in 2021? (Is it you?)
There is tex21-210206.tar.gz, a few days younger than what you ported.
Looking at the recursive diff, it seems to add a few errata and tweak
some fonts and the letter example (replacing DEK with a Farm Ecology
professor from St. Anford :-)
Thanks again!
Jan
