[OS X TeX] Finally we are grown up

[Themis Matsoukas]

On Nov 19, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> Er … I am not exactly rushing and, in fact, I am still on 10.3.9 :- 
> [ (I am that scared but I don't want to be more than one system  
> behind and with Leopard looming on the horizon …).
>
> So, would you say that moving to 10.4 and Wierda's TeXLive is  
> probably OK since I am not using any fancy package, no special font  
> and all my graphics are via includegraphics{pdf}?

Alain,

I don't see why you should worry about updating. I never rush to  
update (OS, TeX) until I hear from other people that things are  
stable enough and even though I cross my fingers when I update,  I  
never had an unrecoverable experience as a result.  I am now in  
10.4.8 and the other day I i-installed TeXlive with no difficulty at  
all. If you don't use the mathime fonts, TeXLive should work just  
like TeTeX. Bruno mentioned some missing files from the TeXLive  
installation but I don't know what functionality may be impaired as a  
result. Still, switching between TeXLive and TeTeX is easy, even for  
naive users such as myself, so you can always go back to the TeTeX if  
you experience some unexpected behavior.

Themis




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