[tex-live] Installing TeX live on MacOS X

[George N. White III]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

> All tlmgr is doing is calling the standard Perl function pod2usage,
> which calls perldoc if it's available.  Perhaps we could find a way to
> pass along -t to perldoc, which might have the desired effect of getting
> normal hyphens.
>
> But I don't want to make this change now and risk breaking help in new
> and unknown ways.  We can experiment later.

I'm not sure TL should make any changes -- maybe Apple needs to catch up
with debian and in the interim the few Apple command-line users have
workarounds.   The bigger question is whether any linux users are encountering
the problem (and blaming TL tools for not recognizing advertised options!).


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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia