Gerben Wierda wrote:
On Jan 10, 2006, at 21:22, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
By and by I've found that I am only using ConTeXt for my typesetting
needs. I am curious as to whether someone can advise me how best to
install a suitable yet minimal TeX installation: without LaTeX,
etc. I am currently using Gerben's very helpful i-Installer.
If someone can tell me which part of my redistro should stay, I can
easily rearrange matters such that such a minimal install is possible.
since the minimals have many fonts, they are not that small; they use
the [10pt] subsets of cbgreek and cmsuper [karl bery and i hav ebeen
playing with subsets and if i'm right tex live now also ships with
subsets] which saves many megs;
the minimals also don't have latex and other macro packages (only plain
tex as this is used in mptopdf); this may safe quite some megs (as well
as speeds up file searching) because latex ships with sourcetrees as well
also, nothing metafont is included
plus a subset of binaries, think of:
afm2pl
afm2tfm
aleph
dvips
dvitodvi
dvitomp
dvipdfmx
kpseaccess
kpsestat
kpsewhich
mktexlsr
mpost
mpto
pdfetex
pltotf
texmfstart
tftopl
ttf2afm
ttf2tfm
vftovp
vptovf
(+ xetex)
(+ some tool stubs)
it's still on taco/mine's agenda to set up a gforce minimal repos at
fabrice's server for packagers
Hans
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