[tex-live] Outstanding question about Hebrew and Greek hyphenation patterns

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Sun Sep 22 11:40:16 CEST 2013


Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:

> On 2013-09-22 at 00:14:36 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
> 
>  > 2013/9/21 Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
>  > > E:\CTAN>c:rsync -a -v --progress --delete
>  > > rsync://rsync.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/ .
>  > >
>  > > This is pulling in hundreds, if not thousands, of files for
>  > > architectures in which I have negative interest.  Is it possible
>  > > to make that incantation pull in only generic files and those
>  > > targetted specifically at Windows (32-bit or 64-bit) ?
>  > 
>  > Yes.
>  > 
>  > You will be surprised: rsync is documented. :-)
>  > It even has man pages for systems which are able to use them.
> 
> Martin, it's a matter of fact that Windows users can't do very much
> with Unix manual pages.  The only program which can process them on
> Windows is Emacs:
> 
>   http://ctan.org/tex-archive/support/win32-emacs-auctex

> 
> If you want to convince Phil to use Emacs, proceed.
> 
>  > Otherwise you will have to use something called "search engine".
>  > I've heard rumours that even the manufacturer of your OS (which
>  > sadly is not Unix) offers one such service.
> 
> You already know my opinion about search engines.  As far as TeX
> related stuff is concerned, it makes more sense to go to
> tex.stackexchange and search there.  Stackexchange is much more
> reliable than everything else you find in the internet.

contributions, to the process of correcting the uk faq are always
welcome.

robin
(actually not sure it's worth carrying on with the faq.)



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