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Re: Which TeX distribution to use?



On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:18:33AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> Dear Debian users,
> 
> I am wondering which Debian TeX packages to use, TeXLive or teTeX. I
> have been using teTeX, and it has been all right. However, some parts
> seem to be outdated, such as ConTeXt (which I use), and this results
> in some missing features. Here's the detail:
> 
> <shell>
> % texexec --version
>  TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
> 
>                texexec : TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>                texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004
>                    tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
>                context : ver: 2005.01.31
>                cont-en : ver: 2005.01.31  fmt: 2007.1.31  mes: english
> 
>         total run time : 1 seconds
> </shell>
> 
> So, do you think it would be all right to switch to the "context"
> package available with TeXLive in Debian, and is the LaTeX support
> etc. also identical to that with teTeX?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
If I get the gist right of the discussion on -devel about a few months ago,
texlive is the future in Debian. Norbert Preining introduced texlive and
recently added context, so he'd be the guy to ask. Other than that, file
a bug report for it.
Cheers,
Kev
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