conflicts whilst installing textproc/docproj

[Ben Kaduk]

On 2/13/06, Marc Fonvieille <blackend at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 06:02:56PM -0600, Ben Kaduk wrote:
> > On 2/12/06, Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 12 Feb 2006, at 23:49, Ben Kaduk wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I'm sorry if this is more appropriate for -questions, but I am
> > > > pretty sure
> > > > that someone here will be able to answer me quickly.
> > > >
> > > > I want to install the port textproc/docproj, to try and help out
> > > > with the
> > > > documentation project, but I already have latex2e installed (I have
> > > > been
> > > > using it to write up my work in mathematics); I use
> > > > only pdflatex from this as an executable, and the only packages
> > > > that I use
> > > > regularly are amsmath,amsthm, and amssymb.
> > > >
> > > > My question is, then, if I uninstall latex2e to install teTeX and
> > > > jadetex
> > > > for the docproj port, will I still have this functionality?
> > >
> > > Pass.  You could try installing one of them with a different PREFIX
> > > though.
> >
> >
> > I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that.  I suppose that I could always
> > resort to using the latex installation on my laptop, which is where I do
> > most of my composition these days.
> >
>
> In the "Unix world", teTeX is the LaTeX distribution to use.
>
> Marc
>

Thanks!

Would it be reasonable to put a note to that effect in the Handbook
somewhere, or is that outside its scope?

Ben Kaduk