[XeTeX] Loading fonts from a common server or http URL

[Diederick C. Niehorster]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 17:42, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
<P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Yes, but that is TLMGR, and I am speaking of TeX !  In other
> words, if I write \usepackage {keyval}, I would like /TeX/
> to (a) look to see if I have keyval.cls locally; (b) if not,
> look to see in which package/bundle/whatever "keyval" lives;
> (c) fetch the p/b/w-h-y from CTAN; (d) un-p/b/w it into my
> local TeXMF hierarchy; (e) continue as if nothing had happened
> and the file had been local all the while.  It may sound
> "pie in the sky", but isn't this exactly what a sane, reasonable,
> TeX user would want to happen in the 21st century ?

MikTex does install on demand of packages (at leat it used to, I'm
using TeXlive for quite a while already now).

Best,
Dee