[OS X TeX] Textures early history

[David Craig]

> On Aug 8, 2022, at 12:53 AM, David Craig <dac at panix.com> wrote:
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>> Dick Koch, who has compiled TeX Live for Mac and put together the MacTeX installer since the beginning of its modern life, wrote a really nice article for TUGBoat (Volume 33 (2012), No. 2) about creating MacTeX. The first parts are about installing MacTeX but the later parts give a bit of history of the what we now know as MacTeX. I include a copy for your perusal.
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> Thanks for that, Herb!
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> But … that means this year is the 10th anniversary of MacTeX, no?   Shouldn’t there be cake or something?

Oops, never mind.    Mislead by too quick a skim of the article and a terrible memory for dates :-)    MacTeX was born in 2005.  

> That article reminded me of i-installer.   I’d forgotten that that was my bridge between OzTeX and MacTeX.   Gerben, if you’re still out there, thank you!

Looking back, they co-existed on my system for a number of years.


David Craig


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