On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 04:05:22PM -0800, Art McGee wrote: > Not sure if this is an approriate question for this list or -users, > but does anyone know how the texlive metaport with the default +medium > variant compares to the BasicTex package, which is a subset of the > full Tex Live:
As I understand it, BasicTeX corresponds roughly to the combination of - texlive-basic - texlive-latex - texlive-latex-recommended - texlive-luatex - texlive-metapost - texlive-xetex It also includes a couple additional packages (synctex, revtex, times, lm, and hyphenation patterns for various European languages) So that means our default texlive +medium is a superset of BasicTeX (with one exception, revtex, which is in texlive-publishers). It also includes more fonts (texlive-fonts-recommended), additional utilities (texlive-bin-extra), English documentation, math packages, and some other packages for common European languages. You can install any combination of the texlive ports you want; a helpful reference as to what's actually in them is at https://trac.macports.org/wiki/TeXLivePackages If you're interested in a small install, it's also worth noting that you can install these ports with the -doc variant to omit the documentation. Of course, the documentation is useful and nice to have around, but it can be pretty large -- for example, texlive-latex-extra is about 5 MB of TeX files with 250 MB of documentation. Dan -- Dan R. K. Ports MIT CSAIL http://drkp.net/ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
