It seems to me that a general LaTeX doc is missing. This could include a presentation of what latex is, how it differs from WYSIWYG software like OOo and what it is good at. Then a small installation howto (basically tetex with some extra packages) and a presentation of the possible tools, including GUI like LyX, texmaker and kile, but also drawing tools (metapost, xfig, asymptote...) and BibTeX. We should also speak of beamer which is becoming more and more important. A mini tutorial including a dummy file and all the compilation steps, plus presentation of rubber to automate this. It should end with useful links (LaTeX FAQ and other online resources). This should not be an introduction to LaTeX (there are plenty of excellent tutorials available online) but rather a "how do you work with LaTeX on gentoo" guide. I'm willing to begin it but do not have much time available at the moment (I'll move to Sweden in a couple weeks), so any help would be most welcome. Any thoughts?
I began to work on this, and the draft can be found on my dev space (http://www.gentoo.org/~nattfodd). I'll try to update it as often as possible. Patches and comments are most welcome, especially if you use emacs with latex or pstricks, as I do not know much about them.
I think it is a good idea to create some kind of documentation, and I agree that it should _not_ be an introduction to LaTeX! We should try to keep the introduction stuff to a minimum: We need to asume that those reading our documentation knows about latex and pacakges, but only need to know what's in portage and who it is organized. We could perhaps have some links to external stuff, where users can find introductions to latex and the various helper apps. I use emacs with auctex on a regular basis, so I could write something about that? I think we also need to write something about ctan.org, and how one could use packages from there if they doesn't exists in portage (and how to create new ebuilds for such packages).
It probably worth mentioning that ebuilds exist for (very useful) editors/la(tex) shells like kile, lyx, texmacs or texmaker. A listing of what's available can be obtained with emerge -S latex. A comprehensive bibliography is an excellent idea.
Since there are also some people using vim (and gvim) some words about app-vim/latexsuite would be very useful too.
(In reply to comment #1) Now the problem is that TeTex upstream has said there will be no more new releases, so Gentoo will have to find some way of providing a nice, fully working *Tex implementation.
(In reply to comment #5) > Now the problem is that TeTex upstream has said there will be no more new > releases, so Gentoo will have to find some way of providing a nice, fully > working *Tex implementation. See this post to the gentoo-dev mailing-list. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/cutoff=38643
Any news?
No, it didn't move at all in the last months. It's on my todo list but I just haven't had the time. That said, contributions are *very* welcome :)
(In reply to comment #8) > No, it didn't move at all in the last months. It's on my todo list but I just > haven't had the time. > That said, contributions are *very* welcome :) > In such a case I can continue the good work. Let me update my TODO List!.
(In reply to comment #4) > Since there are also some people using vim (and gvim) some words about > app-vim/latexsuite would be very useful too. > I agree, I recetly started using latex and I have found difficult to integrate latex with gvim. On this page [1] (in italian) there are many useful trinks about that. [1] http://guide.debianizzati.org/index.php/LaTeX_e_Vim
Original reporter retired, and no word on this in over a year. tetex is being removed from the tree. No maintainer for *tex stuff either, as yet. Feel free to reopen if you have a guide written up. Marking LATER.
