Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on FreBSD (was: missing *8t.tfm files)

- Giorgos Keramidas [070828 10:37]: On 2007-08-27 14:47, Martin Schr?der wrote:

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2007/8/27, Mojca Miklavec :

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On 8/27/07, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

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I will, but I'm afraid I am not good enough for "porting" it to the FreeBSD ports.

Doesn't something already exist on the link above (I didn't read carefully and I wasn't sure about the FreeBSD/OpenBSD relation)?

OpenBSD has a port in current (it will make 4.3, to be released in 2008-05). FreeBSD clings to tetex. :-{

Maybe with enough support from the Ports team of FreeBSD, we can switch from teTeX to TeXLive? But this is a plan which requires quite a bit of work from experienced TeXhackers, which I am not :-/

As far as I can tell it's the sheer size of TexLive that is keeping it from being ported. I would think it is not trivial to modularize it enough to bring the installed size down. What I am thinking about is building a minimal context port. This should be easier to accomplish since we already have a minimal texmf tree thanks to Hans. All that is needed is a source for the FreeBSD binaries. These could be built out of the TexLive source tree... I'll try to cook something up the next couple of days. Cheers, Olaf