[OS X TeX] Contents of MacTeXtras

Alan Litchfield alan at alphabyte.co.nz
Fri May 2 22:44:39 EDT 2014



On 3/05/14 2:17 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
> On May 2, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
>> I need votes for/against adding TeXworks to MacTeX. The .dmg file is
>> about 20MB in size. I assume this will run Under OS X 10.6 and later
>> but it may be 10.7 and later.
>
>
> I am not about to change from TeXShop so, selfishly, I vote against all
> other front ends.

TeXShop suits me fine too.

>
>> Should the (PPC) or both the (PPC) and (Intel) versions for OS X 10.5
>> be removed to add space for either or both of TeXworks and TeXStudio?
>> The (PPC) version is about ~17MB in size while the (Intel) version is
>> ~43MB. Links to the web site for obtaining these would remain but this
>> would also violate the fullest support for OS X 10.5.
>
> Still on a PPC under 10.5.8 and therefore still with TeXShop 2.47. This
> is not likely to change in the foreseeable future. And when it changes,
> that is when either I or the PPC conks out ....
>
> So, I would say that I do not need any "full support".

On one of my machines, I am in the same position.

Alan

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