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Old 02-16-2012
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Originally Posted by Dr. Nick
If i think about this stuff logically wouldn't freeBSD be a better "ground" to build from? I mean, it's practically comes with "less" and you can build it up as you want, with all you need and everything you don't need (correct me if i'm wrong).
If you want to start from scratch and learn as you go, Gentoo is also educational. Its idea of a "cd installer" is a livecd with fdisk, mkfs, and tar so you can unpack their stage files onto your manually created partitions and chroot from there... Google the 'gentoo handbook' for step-by-step instructions.

Once installed it can do quite a lot for you, 'emerge foo' installs foo, but it's still extremely flexible and doesn't force a lot of choices on you.
 

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FEYNMF(1)						    Contributed LaTeX Utilities 						 FEYNMF(1)

NAME
feynmf - Process LaTeX files using FeynMF SYNOPSIS
feynmf [-hvqncfT] [-t tfm [-t tfm ...]] [-m mode] file [file ...] feynmf [--help] [--version] [--quiet] [--noexec] [--clean] [--force] [--notfm] [--tfm tfm [--tfm tfm ...]] [--mode mode] file [file ...] DESCRIPTION
The most complicated part of using the FeynMF style appears to be the proper invocation of Metafont. The feynmf script provides a convenient front end and will automagically invoke Metafont with the proper mode and magnification. It will also avoid cluttering system font directories and offers an option to clean them. OPTIONS
-h, --help Print a short help text. -v, --version Print the version of feynmf. -q, --quiet Don't echo the commands being executed. -n, --noexec Don't execute LaTeX or Metafont. -c, --clean Offer to delete font files that have accidentally been placed in a system directory by the MakeTeXTFM and MakeTeXPK scripts (these scripts are run by tex (and latex) in the background). This option has only been tested with recent versions of UNIX TeX. -f, --force Don't ask any questions. -T, --notfm Don't try to prepare fake ".tfm" files for the first run. -t, --tfm tfm Don't try guess the names of the ".tfm" files to fake for the first run and use the given name(s) instead. This option can be useful if our incomplete parsing of the LaTeX input files fails. -m mode, --mode mode Select the METAFONT mode mode. The default is guessed or "localfont" if the guess fails. file Main LaTeX input files. file ... Other LaTeX input files that are included by the main file. AUTHOR
Thorsten Ohl <Thorsten.Ohl@Physik.TH-Darmstadt.de> BUGS
The preparation of ".tfm" files is not foolproof yet, because we can parse TeX files only superficially. This script has only been tested for recent teTeX distributions of UNIX TeX, though it will probably work with other versions of UNIX TeX. The author will be grateful for portability suggestions, even concerning Borg operating systems, for the benefit of those users that are forced to live with DOS or Windows. FeynMF Version 1.08 2012-01-06 FEYNMF(1)
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