On 14 Mar 2008, at 11:34 PM, Bill Mohler wrote: > Yes, that sure does work! Thanks. > > I had just arrived upon: > texi2pdf /usr/share/info/tar | open -f -a Skim > > But then realized that I don't have a TeX binary installed, so that > won't work. > > A followup question, then. Is the huge (752 MB) MacTex-2007 package > the only appropriate thing for me to use to install TeX on my > machine? Or is there a TeX-Lite type of package that could be > installed? > > Bill >
Any TeX distribution is large. I have the one from Gerben Wierda, about 525MB. It can be reduced a bit by leaving out some components, but not significantly, I think. BTW, your scheme would not work anyway, because the files 'info' returns are not texinfo (source) files but rather already compiled ones (in info format). So texi2pdf would not work, it would require the .texi source files, which AFAIK are not available on your system (normally). Otherwise something like this would have worked: texi2pdf `info -w tar` | open -f -a Skim Christiaan > >> On 3/14/08 5:46 PM, "Bill Mohler" wrote: >> >>> I'm looking up information on the "tar" command in Unix, and the end >>> of the man page says that a much more current manual should exist in >>> the format of a Texinfo file. >>> >>> So I tried "info -t tar | open -f -a Skim" to see if I could read in >>> Skim as I have been doing with man files. >>> >>> First I got an error about -t. >> [...] >>> Anyone willing to coach me here? I think I'm getting close ;) >> >> Just open the file in TextEdit and then make a PDF. >> >> What's the big? >> >> info tar | open -f -a TextEdit >> >> >> -- >> Gary >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Skim-app-users mailing list >> Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
