[XeTeX] doc/samples available via i-Installer

Jonathan Kew jonathan_kew at sil.org
Wed Mar 9 22:52:05 CET 2005


On 9 Mar 2005, at 9:30 pm, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> 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;...

Well, that fits with Apple's guidelines, so it's hard to argue with 
it....

> ....
> 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,

....but this still concerns me as it seems a bit obscure for the 
average (or beginning) user. I'd be interested to hear what others 
think about this; any opinions?

> 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) ;)

Great idea, I'll look forward to seeing what someone implements! :-)

Meanwhile, I'll wait a little and see if there are further comments 
from anyone......

JK



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