Re: Meta-package to replace tetex-extra
Hi Frank, hi all!
On Die, 19 Dez 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Hmmm, in theory possible, but I would opt NOT to just unconditionally
> > activate ALL hyphen patters, as there are quite a lot, and it may happen
> > that the TeX mem is exceeded.
>
> I had the same objections before we activated all of them for teTeX.
> Someone in de.comp.text.tex showed me that it doesn't really make a
> difference. TeXlive as a couple more, but I don't think it will make a
> large difference.
Wrong. Do you remember that I asked some time ago to increase the
respective setting in texmf.cnf, at the beginning of the texlive
packaging efforts? It was out of this reason, I couldn't install all
lang packages as this did break the format building.
So maybe *now* we are on the safe side, but who knows, I didn't check.
> > the end this could easily exceed TeX pattern size. Imagine:
> > - texlive-lang-*
> > - latex-cjk-*
> > - littex (up to here it works ;-)
> > - other than patterns for arabic, etc etc
>
> We can just increase the pattern size, as long as there is no relevant
> decay in performance.
Of course. If we go for this I can merge most of the lang packages into
one, but then again, I wanted to keep some resemblance with the TeX Live
packaging system, ie the collections people are used to install when
they did install TeX Live from the CD/DVD.
Best wishes
Norbert
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