[OS X TeX] How to merge the distributions on my machine?

[Jonathon Swiderski]

On 6/6/07, Adam M. Goldstein <amgoldstein at mac.com> wrote:
> On Jun 6, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Jonathon Swiderski wrote:
>
> >
> > How should I go about merging the distributions on my machine, so that
> > I can just have everything in one place?
> >
>
> Why not just stick with one only? I would stick with TeX Live, as
> Gerben is not providing support for i-Installer any more, and his
> distribution is based on Tex Live anyhow, while TeX Live has, for the
> present, people committed to keeping it up. If there's something
> you're missing from TeX Live that gwTeX has, you can add it by hand
> from CTAN.


As it turns out, gwTeX is not a strict subset of TeXLive:  the GTA Mac
Fonts, for one, are missing from TeXLive, and they're not on CTAN.
Things like this are why I'd rather just combine what's already on my
machine.


-- 
Jonathon Swiderski -- jonathon.swiderski at gmail.com
"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money
in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week." --- Evan
Esar

------------------------- Helpful Info -------------------------
Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/
List Reminders & Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/