[tex-live] scheme modern

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Thu Jan 6 20:15:28 CET 2011


On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

> On 6 January 2011 Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 
>> TikZ is very complex package. Beginners will hardly be able to use
>> it.  Users who are able to use TikZ will probably need a lot of
>> other packages.
> 
> TikZ is used by pgfplots.  And I know beginners who use it *because*
> it's easy to use.  If you don't point them to pgfplots, they use Excel
> instead and then ask you how to get this stuff into their LaTeX files.
> Good luck!
> 
>> I have scheme-full installed. The size of the whole texmf-dist is
>> 2.4 GB while the size of texmf-dist/tex containing the packages is
>> only 172 MB, ie about 7% of total size. If you do not remove the
>> largest packages as TikZ and fonts, you hardly save any space. If
>> you do not want to remove TeX Gyre, you can probably remove support
>> for Arabic and Asian languages, it may save some good space.
> 
> But many people use XeTeX/LuaTeX in order to typeset Arabic and Asian
> scripts. :)
> 
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
> 

Howdy,

Take a look at the texmf-dist/doc directory. Maybe you want to remove all the documentation? :-)

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)






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