[tex-live] scheme modern
Robin Fairbairns
Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Thu Jan 6 21:34:15 CET 2011
Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:06:34PM +0100, 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. :)
>
> There is no usable (for modern engines) Arabic fonts in texlive AFAIK,
> so Arabic users are not losing that much (Also Arabic fonts tend to be
> small, < 100kb each). I doubt there is much usable CJK font either.
do such (free) fonts exist? if so, why not get them on ctan so they
_will_ appear in texlive in due course?
it seems to me that we've quite a lot of "bits" of tex work for using
middle eastern and north african languages, but nothing to draw them
together. it would be really pleasing if a focus could emerge, on
putting the pieces together for such potential users.
however, what you say is (sadly) true just now
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