[OS X TeX] Installing packages

Martin Steer m.steer at coombs.anu.edu.au
Mon Jun 7 05:12:46 CEST 2004


Gerben Wierda <Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl> writes:

> CTAN has *everything* ('comprehensive'). But it does not have
> versioning or quality control or whatever. And it is unusable for
> everyone except the most diehard geeks.

I think it would be a shame to discourage people from using CTAN. My
experience (I'm not a geek) is that if you have a TeX problem, CTAN is
always worth a look. I'm talking about simple problems, such as needing
a special LaTeX style or whatever.

Martin.

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