[tex-live] [lltx] Updating TeXLive 2010 using tlgmr

SKL nn99876 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 22:23:52 CEST 2011


On 15 Sep 2011, at 22:09, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 22:02, SKL wrote:
>> 
>> I am in no position to argue as to whether fontenc should be fixed, or LM should be included in the Basic distro, but I would think that if either the one or the other would happen that might be highly beneficial for the non-expert users of (Xe)TeX
> 
> I'm not entitled to decide either, but you need to keep in mind that
> xetex is not included in basic collection either.
> 
> It was most probably added to MacTeX Basic as an add-on. In the same
> way LM fonts could be added even if TL per se won't be changed.
> 
> Mojca

It is part of the package - if you download it from http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html and if you unzip the package you'll find the xetex executable in it. 

Excluding xetex from MTBasic and sticking it into an add-on together with LM might of course be another solution.


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