[tex-live] scheme modern

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 6 January 2011 Zdenek Wagner wrote:

 > TikZ is very complex package. Beginners will hardly be able to use
 > it.  Users who are able to use TikZ will probably need a lot of
 > other packages.

TikZ is used by pgfplots.  And I know beginners who use it *because*
it's easy to use.  If you don't point them to pgfplots, they use Excel
instead and then ask you how to get this stuff into their LaTeX files.
Good luck!
 
 > I have scheme-full installed. The size of the whole texmf-dist is
 > 2.4 GB while the size of texmf-dist/tex containing the packages is
 > only 172 MB, ie about 7% of total size. If you do not remove the
 > largest packages as TikZ and fonts, you hardly save any space. If
 > you do not want to remove TeX Gyre, you can probably remove support
 > for Arabic and Asian languages, it may save some good space.

But many people use XeTeX/LuaTeX in order to typeset Arabic and Asian
scripts. :)

Regards,
  Reinhard

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