TeX Port
I finally realized today that I could in fact install [LaTeX/TeX][1] via [darwinports][2]. I didn’t realize the standard unix distribution of TeX is called [teTeX][3] and so I was under the mistaken impression that there wasn’t a port available. On my last Mac computer I installed TeX via a system called the [i-Intaller][4], which besides being yet another package management system (yuck) completely hangs my MacBook Pro.
[1]:http://www.ctan.org/what_is_tex.html
[2]:http://darwinports.org/
[3]:http://www.tug.org/tetex/
[4]:http://ii2.sourceforge.net/tex-index.html
On an entirely tangential note here’s a [great article on Donald Knuth][5] (the creator of TeX) that recently appeared in Stanford Magazine.
[5]:http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2006/mayjun/features/knuth.html
