From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:31:19 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85ackasmwo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <1122221022.525785.237790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1122222007.304321.50870@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <85ackbz6sl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122320046 1942 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2005 19:34:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:34:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 25 21:33:55 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx8h7-0005Iu-S9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:32:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx8jP-0004Gv-Bm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:35:19 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2ShcMhlj95doz08zKR0JNA20xs4= Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Jul 2005 21:31:19 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ba7c748d.newsread2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=>Z44[NAV\Rfd:IG0JE`:@gQ5U85hF6f; djW\KbG]kaMh6=9@_^5MOK` List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28180 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28180 Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: David Kastrup >> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:25:14 +0200 >> >> Newsflash: of the 500MB+ of a full TeXlive installation, TeX itself >> makes up for less than 1%. > > Just couldn't resist, could you? > > Please grep ChangeLog files in TeX/Web2C directories for my name, > and I think you will find that I know very well about what's there > since about 8 years ago. And _all_ that stuff, including the other > 99%, All that stuff in TeX/Web2C _is_ maybe 1% of a full TeXlive installation, and certainly does not include the other 99%. > changes very little, from the user point of view. You mean, PDFTeX does not exist, almost _everything_ PDF-related does not exist, listings.sty does not exist, all the various presentation classes do not exist, ConTeXt does not exist, LaTeX never got around to supporting any encoding except latin-1, useful scalable fonts do not exist, source specials don't exist, KOMA-Script and memoir don't exist and so forth and so on? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum