From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:07:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ubr4qi28w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85ackasmwo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:31:19 +0200)
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:31:19 +0200
>
> All that stuff in TeX/Web2C _is_ maybe 1% of a full TeXlive
> installation, and certainly does not include the other 99%.
I guess you think the main body of TeXLive is the fonts and the macro
packages. But if some of these are missing, they can be downloaded
from CTAN and installed without any need for porting to Windows.
> > 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?
Sigh. No, I mean that these are already part of the latest fpTeX,
even though its last version was released 18 months ago.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-26 5:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-24 16:03 "Best" way to run on Windows XP Chris Lott
2005-07-24 16:20 ` Chris L
2005-07-24 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-24 19:46 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-07-25 3:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1549.1122262220.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-07-25 7:25 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-25 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1677.1122318926.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-07-25 19:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-26 5:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.1714.1122355790.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-07-26 8:49 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-26 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1511.1122231867.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-07-25 17:49 ` Klaus Berndl
2005-07-24 16:47 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-24 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-24 21:14 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.1513.1122231961.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-07-25 17:50 ` Klaus Berndl
2005-07-24 16:51 ` Jason Rumney
2005-07-25 14:05 ` Best " Ehud Karni
2005-07-25 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1610.1122300590.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-07-25 17:54 ` Klaus Berndl
2005-07-25 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-25 19:04 ` J. David Boyd
2005-07-26 4:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1712.1122353968.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-07-28 13:57 ` Klaus Berndl
2005-07-24 18:56 ` "Best" " Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-24 19:08 ` Drew Adams
2005-07-25 16:50 ` Jason Dufair
2005-07-25 22:20 ` Peter Lee
2005-08-16 22:07 ` treebeard
2005-08-16 22:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-18 1:55 ` Brett Kelly
2005-10-15 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4126.1124331117.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-08-25 1:02 ` David Combs
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