[tex-live] scheme modern

[Khaled Hosny]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:41:16AM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:34:15PM +0000, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> > Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > do such (free) fonts exist?  if so, why not get them on ctan so they
> > _will_ appear in texlive in due course?
> 
> There are some free Arabic fonts, but nothing great and mostly
> decorative fonts for headings and titles. I'm working on an Arabic
> font[1] that is very candidate for CTAN inclusion (partly sponsored
> by TUG, too), it should be ready sometime in the next three months (I
> have been saying for years, though) and should be on CTAN by then.

Oops, the link:
http://amiri.sourceforge.net/

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