[OS X TeX] newcomer: TexTures info

[Roussanka Loukanova]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Maarten Sneep wrote:
>
> On Jan 26, 2007, at 23:21, Roussanka Loukanova wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>> 
>>> With TeXLive-2007, you'll have practically all the plain TeX macro files 
>>> and LaTeX package files that ever saw the light of day.
>> 
>> This is not quite so, according to me. For example, I use quite well a 
>> couple of packages, which are popular, if not actually needed, for 
>> typesetting with LaTeX in some sub-fields of computational linguistics and 
>> logic:
>
> [some useful, and probably well used pieces of TeX code]
>
>> Both packages can be accessed from
>> http://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/tex/
>
> There is your problem: TeX Live, and pretty much any distribution will only 
> include packages that are on CTAN. If you need to go elsewhere, it will not 
> be included. Ever. The code might as well not exist, as far as the TeX Live 
> maintainers are concerned.

I've got this, but reacted to the see of the light of day mentioned by 
Bruno :)

Roussanka

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