[OS X TeX] Installing packages

[Stephen Addison]

On Jun 4, 2004, at 2:22 PM, William F. Adams wrote:
>> ort dwindles.
>
> Are there tools for Mac OS X to open up .cab files?
>
> If so, it seems to me that we could just vampire off of the MikTeX 
> setup (download the .cab, open it up, convert the line endings, put 
> things in the appropriate places et voila!


When I switched to a MAC a couple of years ago, I bought virtual PC 
specifically to run MikTeX/Winedt, as I thought I couldn't live without 
it.  After discovering GWTeX and TeXShop, since there were a variety of 
packages that I wanted, I unpacked the Cab files, and dragged the 
results to my library folder and ran Latex on them.  They worked fine, 
I didn't have to do anything to the line endings.  Since I'm now on a 
G5 and don't have virtual PC running I can't check, but my impression 
was that the files already had unix line endings.  I know for sure that 
Winedt can work with unix files - it just tells you that it is when 
exchanging files from collaborators on Linux machines.

The question is how many of the packages are needed - I'd always 
installed all available, but now find that the packages in GWTeX are 
fine for most purposes.  I have installed less than 20 additionals - 
and most of them are for journals and conferences that change format 
frequently anyway.

Stephen R. Addison
Professor and Chair
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Central Arkansas

Tel. 501 450 5900
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