TeXLive

[Mark Johnston]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 04:26:18PM -0400, Carmel wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 21:20:24 +0200
> Grzegorz Blach articulated:
> 
> > TeXLive ports are available from external source:
> > https://code.google.com/p/freebsd-texlive/
> 
> So, it is not really a port, per se, but rather a CD ISO I can
> download for instance. I would have rather thought with the popularity
> in the non-Windows world of LaTex, etcetera that someone would have
> ported this to FreeBSD by now. I have a version of "MiKTEX" running on
> one of my Windows machines.

TeXLive _has_ been ported to FreeBSD, it's just not in the ports tree.
You are supposed to use ports-mgmt/portshaker to augment your tree
with the TexLive ports. That is, unless you want to download the
pre-built packages available on the site above (which I haven't tried).

TeXLive works perfectly well for me on BETA-2 - I just stopped working on a
document to respond to this email. =)

-Mark