[texhax] Installing latex

[William Adams]

On Oct 12, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Key McKinnis wrote:

> Latex seems hard to install compared to word processors.  Is there
> anyway I could download just the latex.exe file for my macintosh
> (powerpc).

It's more complex and capable, but requires a lot of support files  
(fonts &c.).

Did you find MacTeX?

http://www.tug.org/mactex/

If download size is an issue, you could use the minimal distribution  
which Dick Koch has put together:

http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/

It's just three files:

http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop.dmg
http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/basictex.dmg
http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/BasicTeX.pdf

(and the last is documentation)

William

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William Adams
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