[tex-live] scheme modern

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On 8 January 2011 15:27, Arno Trautmann <Arno.Trautmann at gmx.de> wrote:
> As far as I can see, there are three important points to clarify:
>
> • What is the purpose of a "modern" (however we call it) scheme?
> • What should be in this scheme?
> • Can we save space at all?
>
> • First point is easy as it is my personal reason: I give introductory
> curses at the university (as a regular course, i.e. 3 months with sheets
> and ECTS-credit points) that goes quite beyond "type this and you get
> that". This summer, it will be based on luaLaTeX and therefore I thought
> it would be nice for the beginners not to have to install the full
> scheme but a somewhat (as much as possible) smaller installation without
> loosing any functionality – of course without the possibility to compile
> old documents. For that, they can upgrade to full.
> The intention is to keep the necessary number of files as small as possible.

Would such a scheme have a broader appeal beyond your course?  We are
obviously not going to introduce an additional scheme just for your
specialized course!  There are other ways you can make a customized
installation easier for your students, e.g., prepare a profile file
that specifies the package collections you require and distribute that
to your students.

Cheers,

Tomek