Blasphemy-)

Blasphemy-)

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

Dear gang,
 
I am now on WinXP now (up from W2000) and only use mswincontext.zip for my 
TeX'ing needs. However, I need to 
install LaTeX for legacy purposes (mainly Lambda/Aleph critical edition 
stuff). fpTeX is gone, I can't find 
XemTeX (broken link 
https://xemtex.groups.foundry.supelec.fr/downloads/xemtex-0.5-rc0.msi ) so I 
guess that 
leaves MiKTeX.
 
Any advice on choosing/installing a minimal LaTeX distribution? Updated links? 
Sorry for the sacrilege-)
 
Best
Idris

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Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: Blasphemy-)

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2005-12-07 um 21:15 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid:

> stuff). fpTeX is gone, I can't find XemTeX (broken link
> https://xemtex.groups.foundry.supelec.fr/downloads/xemtex-0.5- 
> rc0.msi ) so I
> guess that leaves MiKTeX.

I heard the best choice would be proTeXt (also on TeXlive DVD), that  
installs an adapted edition of MikTeX.


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Re: Blasphemy-)

[Hans Hagen]

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

>Dear gang,
> 
>I am now on WinXP now (up from W2000) and only use mswincontext.zip for my 
>TeX'ing needs. However, I need to 
>install LaTeX for legacy purposes (mainly Lambda/Aleph critical edition 
>stuff). fpTeX is gone, I can't find 
>XemTeX (broken link 
>https://xemtex.groups.foundry.supelec.fr/downloads/xemtex-0.5-rc0.msi ) so I 
>guess that 
>  
>
no google over there ? google for 'xemtex' and 'download' and you get:

http://www.metz.supelec.fr/~popineau/xemtex-2.html

>leaves MiKTeX.
> 
>Any advice on choosing/installing a minimal LaTeX distribution? Updated links? 
>Sorry for the sacrilege-)
> 
>

just copy the complete (tex live) texmf tree over your minimal context 
texmf tree (context is in texmf-local so it's safe)

Hans

Re: Blasphemy-)

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:49:23 -0700, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>
>> Dear gang,
>>  I am now on WinXP now (up from W2000) and only use mswincontext.zip  
>> for my TeX'ing needs. However, I need to install LaTeX for legacy  
>> purposes (mainly Lambda/Aleph critical edition stuff). fpTeX is gone, I  
>> can't find XemTeX (broken link  
>> https://xemtex.groups.foundry.supelec.fr/downloads/xemtex-0.5-rc0.msi )  
>> so I guess that
> no google over there ? google for 'xemtex' and 'download' and you get:
>
> http://www.metz.supelec.fr/~popineau/xemtex-2.html

Silly me-) and even more so when you consider that the third entry on  
google is an email I wrote to Fabrice-)

> just copy the complete (tex live) texmf tree over your minimal context  
> texmf tree (context is in texmf-local so it's safe)

Sounds very scary but I'll trust you-)

Best
Idris
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