![]() Jmr: Awesome, thanks! It would be great to phase out teTeX. I have successfully installed auctex this way by putting /usr/texbin in nf, and I can confirm it works. So all MacPorts has to do is include "/usr/texbin" at the front of its binpath then *any* distribution would automatically be available for ports that depend on "bin:tex". ![]() This means that one can try out new distributions on the fly without disturbing existing distributions. This is a smart tool that detects existing TeX distributions (such as its own TeXLive 2007, or gwTeX, or Fink's teTeX, or MacPorts's teTeX), and provides radio buttons for the user to choose which distribution he/she wants to use, and places corresponding links in /usr/texbin. The MacTeX distribution (which is what most LaTeX sites recommend installing) comes with a preference pane which shows up in System Preferences as "TeX Distribution". The produced bibliography is a list of bibliographic items with are based on special LaTeX-specific macros ( bibitem, block, protect, etc. ![]() That would not be necessary, if the following solution were adopted, which is a tool for exactly this sort of thing: At the moment, bibliographies are generated by BibTeX and imported into TeXmacs. My problem is that I cannot seem to get my bibliography to work. So now I am running TeXmacs under X11 under Mac OS 10.3. I have read all of the FAQs and solved a lot of the basic installation problems, found the libraries, etc. Is that all there's to replacing BibTeX Can you walk me through what it d. You say it parses the aux file and produces a bbl file. Then you could contribute a port that just puts the good links in /opt/local/bin (a little like what the 'texlive' port does). I am somewhat new to X-Windows, BibTeX, TeXmacs, LaTex, etc. Hey Karl, I'm trying to understand what this utility does. You could try a 'ln -s mactex/s/location/latex /opt/local/bin/latex' and 'ln -s mactex/s/location/bibtex /opt/local/bin/bibtex' and see if things depending on tex install well. ![]() If there is consensus, I propose the following solution: That is great news! I wonder how I missed this. In fact, macports dependency engine allows for depending on a file being present instead of a full port, and it was agreed that ports depending on tex should use that dependency scheme. It would be possible provided you have the right links in $/bin (bibtex, latex and maybe a few other). Replying to to interested in getting ports working with an externally installed MacTeX. ![]()
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