[OS X TeX] local vs. global symlink

[Jack Kuipers]

Please, tell me what must I read, or where do I start (if I must) to  
gain some perspective on what you are all talking about. More  
importantly, is it necessary that I learn it. May I continue to be a  
happy (even, in my view, proficient) user of this magnificent  
personal publication utility.

Over 20 yrs ago I started with Textures, finished a substantial  
publishing effort (for me), and then after the TeXTures difficult  
interlude, on to OZTeX,  and finally to TeXShop. I have this fear  
that the TeXShop which has become part of my life in recent years  
will soon be NOT accessible to "ordinary folk" (older folk) who have  
not been weened on the communicating skills with "Terminal" ala Unix,  
Linux, etal.

Please, tell me there will "always" be a version of Mac OS X TeXShop  
that one (even I) can install --- if, or when, issued, or acquiring a  
new up-to-date Mac.  Most of us older folk are "falling away" but  
until then, --- Are there any comforting words out there for WE, the  
recalcitrant few?

Jack Kuipers
Professor, emeritus
Mathematics
kprs at calvin.edu

The box said,
"Use Windows 98
or better,"   SOoo,
I GOT a Macintosh.




On Nov 28, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> The last days I used the local symlink for tex and found that its  
> more convenient for me: Switching is simpler, for no password is  
> required, and the command line I didn't need, since I ran texdoc  
> from Local Switcher and kpsewhich as a TeXShop macro, and these are  
> the only tex related commands that I use in the terminal.
>
> The majority of tex users will therefore be better served by using  
> a local symlink.
>
> Claus
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