Re: Future versions of teTeX, and TeXlive as a replacement

[Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>]

Hi, Frank, Norbert et. al.

Sorry for the very late reply. I'm trying to catch up with d-t-m@l.d.o right now.

On 04/24/06 04:31, Frank Küster wrote:
> Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> wrote:
>> And it would be nice if texlive were a bit smaller... The whole teTeX 3.0
>> that I have now installed (sans documentation) is way smaller than the
>> packages that provided similar functionality from Norbert's texlive upload
>> to experimental (and I tried to pull in the smallest amount of packages
>> that I could).
> 
> TeXlive is much more modular than teTeX; even the orig.tar.gz files are of
> comparable size to tetex-base.  I'm surprised that it isn't possible to get a
> more stripped-down, or equal-sized/equal-functionality installation.  Can you
> provide us more details?

Yes, sure. The (latex) packages that I use the most made me pull in a good
amount of (texlive) packages.

I think that something like a "popularity-contest"-like package for deciding
what to include in the Debian packages would be a nice thing (and even recommend
that to upstream).

For instance, the packages that I use the most are (from memory):


inputenc
fontenc
babel
ifpdf
geometry
hyperref
graphicx
eso-pic
amsthm
amssymb
amsmath
xspace
algorithm
algorithmic


I also like to use the following for changing things in my documents:


mathptmx/mathpazo
txfonts/pxfonts
fancyhdr
euler
beton


BTW, if I recall correctly (it's been a while since I last used Norbert's
texlive) euler and beton were in different packages. I think that it would make
sense for those that want to get a "Concrete Mathematics" look to install just
one (debian) package and get both euler and beton for their documents.

If more details are required, please let me know. I may have some more time in
the near future (and I am releasing a new version of algorithms to CTAN soon).


Thanks, Rogério Brito.

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