[Mac OS X TeX] GUI for teTeX settings, etc.; ideas from NeXT?
Siep
siepo at cybercomm.nl
Thu Nov 15 23:53:41 CET 2001
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:59:22 -0500
William Adams <wadams at atlis.com> wrote:
> Troy said:
> >Alternatively, there could be a Services item (available to the
> >Finder) named, say, "Install TeX add-on". If nothing is selected, it
> >shows me a little window explaining what it does. If a *.sty, *.ins,
> >etc. file is selected, it does the right thing with it and I'm on my
> >merry way.
>
> Actually, there was a facility to fetch and install up-dates.
>
> The big difficulty here is that:
>
> 1 - TeX Directory Structure is _very_ complex
> 1b - the standard thing to do is to just grab / install everything, no?
>
> 2 - the ``TeX Package System'' or whatever they were going to call it
> never got resolved / finished
On the Windows end, Fabrice Popineau is working on a package-based
install, see e.g. http://www.ntg.nl/eurotex/abstracts.html#popineau; the
latest TeX live cd uses it. Eventually, this may find its way into the
Unix branch.
Siep
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