[OS X TeX] TeX-Live (Mac version) question

[Gary L. Gray]

On Oct 5, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 5 oct. 07 à 15:41, Lantz Susan a écrit :
>
>> [...]
>>
>> I have always used plain TeX or AMS-TeX. Since MacTex didn't  
>> install the
>> AMS-TeX format (is there a reason for that?), [...]
>
> Are you sure? Which version of MacTeX did you install? The standard  
> MacTeX.dmg from <http://www.tug.org/mactex/>, or some alternative  
> version from <http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html>?
>
> Normally I think MacTeX does include AMS-TeX. At least in my case  
> it does: there are amstex binaries inside
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/
>
> the amstex format inside
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/
>
> and associated input files inside
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/amstex/


Bruno,

I could be wrong, but I think she actually wants a *format*, not just  
the style or class file. With that said, machines are so fast these  
days that I have never seen much of an advantage of building a format  
file.

All the best,
   Gary


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