Obviously, xtem (as an X11 frontend) for TeX is quite useless without TeX. By default, though, there's no check in this port for it in order to avoid space problems during build. You can activate it by typing "make BUILD_IT_ALL=yes ..." instead of just "make ...". In that case, the existence of tex will be checked for and "teTeX-0.4" will be installed when it can't be found. In addition, "gv" (a "nicer" version of ghostview) will be checked for and installed as well, if not found. Happy TeXing, Peter Cornelius