tetex or texlive on linux

tetex or texlive on linux

[olivier Turlier]

Hi everybody,
I'm going to install context on a linux box (ubuntu 5.10).

1) I wish to hear texnicians (rather than aficionados) words on wich tex 
distro fit best for mainly context use, on fonts optimisation, for 
exemple, etc.

2) is informations on contextgarden wiki are still uptodate for tetex 
install ?

TIA

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Olivier TURLIER

Re: tetex or texlive on linux

[VnPenguin]

On 11/29/05, olivier Turlier <o.turlier@free.fr> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I'm going to install context on a linux box (ubuntu 5.10).
>
> 1) I wish to hear texnicians (rather than aficionados) words on wich tex
> distro fit best for mainly context use, on fonts optimisation, for
> exemple, etc.

teTeX is a good choice. Of course there is also TeXlive :-)

> 2) is informations on contextgarden wiki are still uptodate for tetex
> install ?

Yes,

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Re: tetex or texlive on linux

[Hans Hagen]

olivier Turlier wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> I'm going to install context on a linux box (ubuntu 5.10).
>
> 1) I wish to hear texnicians (rather than aficionados) words on wich 
> tex distro fit best for mainly context use, on fonts optimisation, for 
> exemple, etc.
>
> 2) is informations on contextgarden wiki are still uptodate for tetex 
> install ?

if you don't need latex, you can take the minimal context distribution 
for linux; it has all you need

Hans

Re: tetex or texlive on linux

[Renaud AUBIN]

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Salut Olivier,

teTeX benefits from an excellent integration with debian-like distros 
i.e. you can update with the last version, install or not some exotic 
packages like prosper for LaTeX (.deb package), tetex-frog for french 
support. etc. But since TeXlive is based on teTeX, I believe that more 
packages are included (some PSTricks extensions pst-*** or prosper). Of 
course, you have to take these considerations into account only if you 
will use LaTeX.

I'm learning ConTeXt for a week after 3-4 of LaTeX practice and I have 
installed texlive2005 after some unexpected experiments with teTeX. Now, 
my fonts-related problem is solved so I will maybe retry ConTeXt with 
teTeX... In *my* opinion, teTeX is lightest because when you need a 
package, apt works well and if there is no deb package, you can easilly 
install it manually (a0poster, HAProsper, Thèse Loria...)
I need a complete distrib of TeX with LaTeX support because I need it 
for publication purposes and I don't want to port all my doc to ConTeXt 
yet... If you need ConTeXt without LaTeX, the better solution is 
effectively to follow Hans's advice.

With teTeX and TeXlive, fonts-related problem seem not (*are* not, to 
me,) trivial but the mailing list is a good start point...

Another point, if you need a multi-OS distrib of (La)TeX => texlive is 
the solution since teTeX is only for linux.

For internals, I don't know well diff between teTeX and TeXlive.

Cordialement,

If you need more advices or precisions (in french) you can contact me 
directly

VnPenguin a écrit :

>On 11/29/05, olivier Turlier <o.turlier@free.fr> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi everybody,
>>I'm going to install context on a linux box (ubuntu 5.10).
>>
>>1) I wish to hear texnicians (rather than aficionados) words on wich tex
>>distro fit best for mainly context use, on fonts optimisation, for
>>exemple, etc.
>>    
>>
>
>teTeX is a good choice. Of course there is also TeXlive :-)
>
>  
>
>>2) is informations on contextgarden wiki are still uptodate for tetex
>>install ?
>>    
>>
>
>Yes,
>
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Re: tetex or texlive on linux

[Renaud AUBIN]

Ok, I've tried to reuse ConTeXt with tetex (Debian unstable package) and :
1. pdfTeX version is 1.21 (texlive2005 give 1.3x)
2. Lucida font is apparently more difficult to manage with teTeX

Experience from other people ?

Conclusion : apt-get remove tetex-* then reinstall texlive2005... If you 
don't want to spend a lot of time on configuration

olivier Turlier a écrit :

> Hi everybody,
> I'm going to install context on a linux box (ubuntu 5.10).
>
> 1) I wish to hear texnicians (rather than aficionados) words on wich 
> tex distro fit best for mainly context use, on fonts optimisation, for 
> exemple, etc.
>
> 2) is informations on contextgarden wiki are still uptodate for tetex 
> install ?
>
> TIA
>

Re: tetex or texlive on linux

[Hans Hagen]

Renaud AUBIN wrote:

>
> For internals, I don't know well diff between teTeX and TeXlive.


there is also the 'tex collection' which is texlive ++

the big collection tree (also used by protext) has more goodies; due to 
all kind ot licence issues tetex/texlive tend to become smaller; some 
fonts for instance are free but permit no changes to shapes (which is ok 
for me); 

Hans