[tex-live] scheme modern

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Thu Jan 6 20:33:16 CET 2011


On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:06:34PM +0100, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> 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. :)

There is no usable (for modern engines) Arabic fonts in texlive AFAIK,
so Arabic users are not losing that much (Also Arabic fonts tend to be
small, < 100kb each). I doubt there is much usable CJK font either.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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