latex ???Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions Topic: latex ??? started by: spotslayer Posted by spotslayer on July 08 2005,00:10
Hi all, I have a request for info or even an .dsl. Here is the story. I have a son that is starting his third year of college and has gotten in a work study program doing research with a fellow doing his phd studies. The program he is using to manipulate the data is latex. He is currently using windowsXP(spit) as most of his professors are using that and they allow him to turn in some of his work with a cd. He has used linux for about a year before he chose to go back to the other side. I looked in the repository and saw the following. latex2rtf.dsl I know absolutly nothing about this program but the info file tells me something. Has anyone tried to port latex to a .dsl or .uci? I have an older PII laptop that I can loan him and I think a frugal install to ram would work out for him if he was able to run latex. I may be entirely off base but thought I would throw this out and see what kind of response I got. Thank's for reading David Posted by roberts on July 08 2005,03:07
Yeah! A latax fan. Latex is quite large. WIth my current work load, I barely have time to breathe, yet alone to try to make a .dsl or an iso. But I will tell you that I using TexLive a liveCD. It has Latex2e on it. You do have to have a partition/directory to anchor parts so that Tex Live can write. But I am using it with DSL and printing quite complex docs with it. You have to have DSL installed frugally or toram so that the cdrom is free to host Tex Live CD. The main site is < http://www.tug.org/texlive/ > and the download site is: < http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/Images/ >It would probably be easy to make a uci as it already is kinda so running from the cdrom. See, what you did, now you got me thinking... Posted by spotslayer on July 08 2005,11:57
I hope you can find the time. I know how it is to get snowed under. With two kids in college I have to work all the time to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Chris is presently trying to learn at home with a windows look alike. It is not good at all. I will let him know about the live cd. The prof he is working for is putting together a five year study of obesity and quality of meals served in high school lunch program. Doing almost all of it with latex. Please keep me updated on your latex aspirations. David Posted by nucpc on July 12 2005,18:39
Spotslayer, hopefully you'll find a .dsl (19Mb) of latex at;< http://nuclear.ph.man.ac.uk/~pc/dsl.html > its tidied up from an old version (that used to require a script to be run - no longer needed courtesy of Roberts hard work tidying stray links up) but I've just realised the advice in example `t.tex' is now out of date and no longer valid - please ignore. In common with others I've hardly any time at all at the moment, I breathe at weekends, but I'll try and get this cleaned up and to the repository if its okay (please let me know). Cheers. Posted by ke4nt1 on July 12 2005,20:41
Nice to see you post, nucpc..73 ke4nt Posted by spotslayer on July 15 2005,22:40
Thank's nucpcI'll give it a go. David |