<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dear Dr. Beebe,</span><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Many thanks for your post re TeX Live 2021 and FreeBSD 13.0:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2021-April/046779.html">https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2021-April/046779.html</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><br></div><div>Wondering if you can help me simplify install instructions for TeX Live 2021 on Windows and Mac?</div><div><br></div>I’m writing a book about the LaTeX markdown package and LaTeX typesetting for self-publishers called Publish Beautiful Books with Markdown: the Fast Track to LaTeX. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Many of my prospective readers are devoted to MS Word and not a few are tech adverse. So I’m asking them to to step outside their comfort zone in the interest of publishing more trade-acceptable books.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">So I need dead simple instructions on how to install TeX Live 2021 on Windows, Mac, and Linux. But the install instructions in the official TeX Live docs are so poorly written I hesitate to recommend them. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I’m a Linux user so can work the recipe for Linux. But I don’t have access to Mac or Windows systems to install and test. So can you or one of your students provide fool-proof install instructions for Mac and Windows? I’d be happy to compensate for time and contribute the recipes back to public domain.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Vit Novotny suggests that I recommend a Docker package. But I fear that just adds one more layer of tech complexity.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">You can see an example of my work here:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://builditwith.com/nitro">https://builditwith.com/nitro</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Many thanks,</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Lloyd R. Prentice</div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div></body></html>