[OS X TeX] The MiKTeX Package Manager

Frank STENGEL fstengel at mac.com
Thu Sep 29 10:56:58 EDT 2005


I had totally forgotten about this post. Made me look at the concept.  
As far as I can tell from the MiKTeX web page, the package manager  
can be compiled on macosx and seems to be working.

The dream would be to integrate it into TCOBrowser: one browses the  
online TeX catalogue and if a MiKTeX package exists, one can install  
it using mpm


Le 29 sept. 05 à 14:37, Jung-Tsung Shen a écrit :

> The following message was digged out from the archive (before I
> subscribed this mailing list). I was a bit surprised that no one
> echoed the post. Among many other features, the Package Manager on
> MikTeX on Windows is one of the most desired features I would like to
> see on Mac.
>
> For those who don't use Windows, what the Package Manager of MikTeX
> does is that it automatically downloads packages from the internet,
> then extracts, and installs packages in your computer. Package Manager
> is triggered by either an explicit call using
> \usepackage[package_name], but the package with package_name is not
> installed; or, better yet, you don't even have to know the name of the
> package (so you didn't call it using \usepackage), if there is a
> command in your document that needs this package, then Package Manager
> is there fore you.
>
> JT
>
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Frank STENGEL (fstengel<at>mac.com)

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