[OS X TeX] Installing packages

[Marcelo LaFleur]

So where do we stand on this? I understand that there are difficulties, but
is there a viable strategy to work this?



on 6/6/04 11:12 PM, Martin Steer at m.steer at coombs.anu.edu.au wrote:

> Gerben Wierda <Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl> writes:
> 
>> CTAN has *everything* ('comprehensive'). But it does not have
>> versioning or quality control or whatever. And it is unusable for
>> everyone except the most diehard geeks.
> 
> I think it would be a shame to discourage people from using CTAN. My
> experience (I'm not a geek) is that if you have a TeX problem, CTAN is
> always worth a look. I'm talking about simple problems, such as needing
> a special LaTeX style or whatever.
> 
> Martin.
> 
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