Re: NTeX for Debian & generalized packaging
Mark Phillips (mark@maths.flinders.edu.au) wrote:
: I myself have been using NTeX and have found it very good.
Until july, NTeX shipped with modified cm-fonts that made it _incompatible_
with every other TeX of the world. Some students here at the university of
cologne installed the german SuSE-Distribution (shipped with NTeX) and they
wondered why their articles looked completly different when printed/viewed
at university ...
The difference between "NTeX" and the rest of the world was a 12 pages
more/less on an 70-page document. "It's a feature not a bug" was the
reaction to my bug-report. Sigh.
The advantage of using teTeX instead is: it already ships with binaries for
23 plattforms and is proven to be a high quality TeX-Distribution (rumors
say the author had tested it recently by installing it at CERN with several
thousand users).
My opinion is that we should not waste our time by providing several
TeX-Distributions for Debian-users. We should stick either with the
packages from Nils (works but is not that rich) or we should package up
teTeX _instead_.
-Winfried
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