Tetex Distribution and Latex fonts

[Daniel Stonier]

Check out

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/itss/infrastructure/announce/pubsw/Mar2003/tex.html

Might be worth dropping him a line.

Cheers,
Daniel.

On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:25:42 +0100, Manuel Carro <mcarro at fi.upm.es> wrote:

>
> Daniel Stonier wrote:
>
>>> I'm not sure if it helps, but I have a bunch of style files I use that 
>>> are
>>> non-tetex standard. The easiest way I've found to manage them while
>>> updating or re-installing the OS is to keep them in directories on my 
>>> work
>>> partition somewhere and then set up symlinks to them in
>>> /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex.
>
> (and others wrote similar ideas)
>
>     yes, that's what I've been doing for non-standard packages or for
> packages locally developed.  However, utopia.sty (which I tend to use
> because I just like it) and listings are just two examples.  I do not
> know the extent to which this can happen, and I wouldn't like to be
> bitten by it while, e.g., preparing slides in a plane (which is not
> the best idea, probably, but, hey, that's life...).  I am worried
> about backward compatibility, obviously, and I just do not know if the
> lack of those files comes from the LaTeX distribution itsef (as it
> comes from the CTAN archives, which means that whoever decides what
> comes into the tetex ditribution has ruled out these packages), or if
> it is a decision (maybe just an involuntary mistake) of the person who
> made the packaging.
>
>         MCL
> _____
> sPAIN
>
>



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