[OS X TeX] basic etiquette
Roberto Avanzi
roberto.avanzi at gmail.com
Mon Nov 27 18:00:52 CET 2006
On 27 Nov 2006, at 14:33, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
> Am 27.11.2006 um 13:59 schrieb Roberto Avanzi:
>
>> Pardon my ignorance, but what is mpm, how do I use it on my mac?
>
> Mpm is the MiKTeX (an MS Windows distribution based on TeX Live)
> Package Manager. Since some months it works quite well to compile
> it on Mac OS X. Before it was available for some Linux
> distributions. Somehow it works to install updated packages from
> CTAN. See http://miktex.org/ and particularly http://www.miktex.org/
> unx/. It seems to be versatile enough to install a new package in a
> handful of different TeX installations on the same system ... and
> it even might be able to update each of them! So one would not need
> anymore to download 100 MB+ for a simple update.
Very, very interesting.
Roberto
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