<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Harry Rowe,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BasicTeX does not contain documentation by design. The whole point of BasicTeX</div><div class="">is to provide a small package that can be easily downloaded; it is designed</div><div class="">for people who use standard facilities in TeX and LaTeX.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One possible work around is to use TeX Live Utility to add additional packages.</div><div class="">See </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://github.com/amaxwell/tlutility" class="">https://github.com/amaxwell/tlutility</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t know if the documentation is sufficiently separated out from other</div><div class="">material to make this practical.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, the MacTeX working group has always recommended that most</div><div class="">users, including new users, install the complete MacTeX and thus the</div><div class="">complete TeX Live. These users will entirely avoid the problem you</div><div class="">report and many other difficulties.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dick Koch</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>