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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!utzoo!telly!evan
- From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
- Subject: Re: TeX, LaTeX for SVR4 386
- Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
- Distribution: comp.unix.sysv386
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:42:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <2AA22FDD.100C@telly.on.ca>
- References: <16342@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1992Aug28.151544.1750@sinkhole.unf.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug28.151544.1750@sinkhole.unf.edu> shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite) writes:
- >In article <16342@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> shih@birch.eecs.ucdavis.edu (The Nomad) writes:
-
- >>Sorry if this seems a dumb question. But it has bother me for
- >>a very long time. I found the software package TeX for SVR4 386
- >>on two different sites. Strange thing is that one is 3 meg byte size
- >>while the other one has 15 meg byte size. Can anyone tell me
- >>what's the difference? Since disk space is a precious sresource, I am
- >>hesitate about getting 15meg but if 3meg version is not complete...
-
- >>Any information will be greatly appreciated.
-
- > The 15 meg SVR4 binary release of TeX 3.14 is the correct one to get.
- >A full TeX implementation does take a lot of space but the sacrifice
- >in disk space is worth it for all of the beautiful documents you will create
- >with it. Actually, you're going to need more because you'll also want to
- >get (at least) the psfig and dvips packages at Stanford (I believe it's
- >labrea.stanford.edu).
-
- Specifically, amongst the components of (what many people consider to be
- complete) TeX are:
-
- - TeX itself;
- - Metafont;
- - LaTeX;
- - The piles of publicly contributed LaTeX style/macro files;
- - BibTeX
- - TeX font sources (which need to be run through Metafont);
- - TeX fonts (ready-to-run in .pk format);
- - One or more screen/printer drivers for the .dvi output of TeX;
- - (If you use PostScript) downloadable fonts for use with dvips;
- - miscellaneous utilities like tr2latex.
-
- You could get barely get a piece of that in 3Meg compressed.
- On my own system, this all take up about 18MB, not including
- source code (and that's considering I don't have many compiled fonts
- since I use dvips). My source tree is another 15MB, but some of that
- may be redundant.
-
- TeX is many things to many people. But the adjective "compact" is not
- one of those things.
-
- --
- Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
- evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
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