[XeTeX] doc/samples available via i-Installer

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 9 mars 05, à 21:00, Jonathan Kew a écrit :

> I suppose, on thinking about it, I'd suggest that I change the default 
> location to ~/Documents. I know Apple says that developers shouldn't 
> install things there, it's for users to control. But in this case, 
> it's not an application installer that is dumping stuff there (without 
> the user's knowledge or control); rather, it's a separate package that 
> specifically provides some *Documents*, and this seems a logical 
> default place to offer to put them. The fact that this package of 
> documents is delivered via an "installer" technology is secondary to 
> the fact that it's a bunch of documents.
>
> As always, thanks for the helpful comments. Would ~/Documents be a 
> better default, you think? (The knowledgeable user who likes to keep 
> things in /Library/Documentation or Application Support or whatever 
> can still specify this during installation, of course.)

Thanks for the thanks (!), I was afraid my comments could be 
misinterpreted and viewed negatively.

As for ~/Documents, I must say I'm not in favour of it. As some others 
have said in the OS TeX thread about i-Packages location, ~/Documents 
should, IMHO, only contain user-created files; in my case that means 
papers, calculations, reports, notes, presentations, family stuff, etc. 
For all the rest (apart from multimedia content in Sequences etc.) it 
should go, I think, inside ~/Library or /Library. On my setup I moved, 
for example, ~/Documents/i-Packages to ~/Library/i-Packages (though I 
would have thought /Library/i-Packages more logical, given the TeX 
install is by default a system-wide one), and similarly, at the time I 
had it installed, ~/darwinports to ~/Library/darwinports. Similarly I 
was rather happy to see that the latest Adobe software no longer 
installs stuff inside ~/Documents.

My personal choices would be /Library/Documentation/XeTeX/ for 
XeTeX-doc, and /Library/Application Support/XeTeX/ for XeTeX-samples, 
but still there would be the problem of how to draw the user's 
attention to these folders, in the absence of a GUI. What about 
creating a GUI for XeTeX (like a XeTeX mode inside TeXShop, Xcode, 
Alpha or Emacs, creating or modifying menus as required) ;)

Enough from me on this, hopefully others will have more relevant 
suggestions,

Bruno