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Re: RPM for vtex/vlatex?
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John Franks <[log in to unmask]>
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John Franks <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:16:47 -0500
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On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 12:10 -0700, Michael Hannon wrote:
> Hi, folks.  One of our SL 3 users has requested that we install vlatex, 
> evidently for the purpose of producing PDF files directly from TeX 
> files.  See, for instance:
> 
> ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/vtex/linux/readme-linux.eng
> 
> Does anybody know of an RPM package for this? 

I don't know the answer, but have you tried to get them to use pdftex
and pdflatex?  If what you want is direct TeX ->pdf these work great.
They are part of standard tetex.

John Franks

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