<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 08:27, Arash Esbati <<a href="mailto:arash@gnu.org">arash@gnu.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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I use bash packaged with Msys2 on MS-Windows. All .exe file provided by<br>
TeXlive run without problems in a bash shell. One thing that doesn't<br>
run for obvious reasons is tlmgr.bat, alas, I have to open a cmd box to<br>
update TeXlive. Here is a one-line wrapper for bash to run tlmgr.bat:<br>
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--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---<br>
#!/bin/sh<br>
<br>
# This is a small wrapper around tlmgr.bat in order to use it under<br>
# bash from Msys2. Note the double // for escaping /<br>
cmd.exe //c tlmgr.bat "$@"; exit $?<br>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---<br>
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I'm not sure if it makes sense to add this to TeXlive for Windows. But<br>
maybe it helps others.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>With WSL you can use TeX Live in linux. I work with multi-author projects</div><div>so have reason to format "problematic" documents on both Windows and</div><div>specific linux distros, so I have noticed that linux-64 TL is much faster than <br></div><div>win32 TL (despite the generally poor I/O performance in WSL). The one <br></div><div>annoyance is that in native linux you can have a PDF document open in a <br></div><div>linux viewer and generate a new version. For Windows Adobe viewers you <br></div><div>have to close the PDF view first. <br></div></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>George N. White III<br><br></div></div></div></div>