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David Huffer | 2 Sep 18:48

RE: Tex Live 2008

On Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:38, Nicolas Vaughan wrote:

 > ...Yesterday the TUG group released  version
 > 2008 of TeX Live. It works quite nicely, you
 > should all try it...

Why? For the uninitiated...

--
 David Huffer, Ph.D.
 Senior Statistician
 CSOSA, Washington, DC
 <david.huffer <at> csosa.gov>

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Nicolas Vaughan | 2 Sep 19:36

Re: Tex Live 2008

Well, to begin with, Tex Live compiles much faster than MikTex (at least twice as fast). This release of TeX Live (2008) includes LuaTeX (TeX based on the Lua programming language) and further support for XeTeX. It also includes the latest version of PDFTeX (1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)), which allows much more subtle typographic control. ( . . . and a lot new features I really don't know about).
Best wishes,
Nicolas Vaughan

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:48 AM, David Huffer <David.Huffer <at> csosa.gov> wrote:

On Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:38, Nicolas Vaughan wrote:

> ...Yesterday the TUG group released version
> 2008 of TeX Live. It works quite nicely, you

> should all try it...

Why? For the uninitiated...

--
David Huffer, Ph.D.
Senior Statistician
CSOSA, Washington, DC
<david.huffer <at> csosa.gov>

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Jonathan S. Ostroff | 2 Sep 20:27

RE: Tex Live 2008

Miktex automatically downloads packages as you need them. Does this work automatically with Texlive?

Jonathan

From: Nicolas Vaughan [mailto:nivaca <at> gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 1:37 PM
To: winedt+list <at> wsg.net
Subject: Re: [WinEdt] Tex Live 2008

Well, to begin with, Tex Live compiles much faster than MikTex (at least twice as fast). This release of TeX Live (2008) includes LuaTeX (TeX based on the Lua programming language) and further support for XeTeX. It also includes the latest version of PDFTeX (1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)), which allows much more subtle typographic control. ( . . . and a lot new features I really don't know about).
Best wishes,
Nicolas Vaughan

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:48 AM, David Huffer <David.Huffer <at> csosa.gov> wrote:

On Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:38, Nicolas Vaughan wrote:

> ...Yesterday the TUG group released version

> 2008 of TeX Live. It works quite nicely, you

> should all try it...

Why? For the uninitiated...

--
David Huffer, Ph.D.
Senior Statistician
CSOSA, Washington, DC
<david.huffer <at> csosa.gov>

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Nicolas Vaughan | 2 Sep 20:56

Re: Tex Live 2008

No, Tex Live can't do that (though thery're working on it). That's a flaw, of course. But manual installation (of almost everything except fonts) isn't that difficult.
Nicolas

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Jonathan S. Ostroff <jonathan <at> yorku.ca> wrote:

Miktex automatically downloads packages as you need them. Does this work automatically with Texlive?

Jonathan

From: Nicolas Vaughan [mailto:nivaca <at> gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 1:37 PM
To: winedt+list <at> wsg.net
Subject: Re: [WinEdt] Tex Live 2008

Well, to begin with, Tex Live compiles much faster than MikTex (at least twice as fast). This release of TeX Live (2008) includes LuaTeX (TeX based on the Lua programming language) and further support for XeTeX. It also includes the latest version of PDFTeX (1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)), which allows much more subtle typographic control. ( . . . and a lot new features I really don't know about).
Best wishes,
Nicolas Vaughan

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:48 AM, David Huffer <David.Huffer <at> csosa.gov> wrote:

On Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:38, Nicolas Vaughan wrote:

> ...Yesterday the TUG group released version

> 2008 of TeX Live. It works quite nicely, you

> should all try it...

Why? For the uninitiated...

--
David Huffer, Ph.D.
Senior Statistician
CSOSA, Washington, DC
<david.huffer <at> csosa.gov>

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Erich Neuwirth | 2 Sep 19:48

WinEdt Latex2e help

Possibly a very dumb question.
The LaTeX2e item on my Help menu is greyed out.
The files are installed, but I think Winedt is configure to
use CHM help and I do not have a CHM help file in
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\doc\latex\help
I would rather use HTML help anyhow, but I cannot find where I can 
change this.
Can anybody help me?

--

-- 
Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna
Faculty of Computer Science
Computer Supported Didactics Working Group
Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-39464 Fax: +43-1-4277-39459

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Kuznetsov A.N. | 2 Sep 20:35

Re: WinEdt Latex2e help

Hello, Erich Neuwirth!
 02.09.2008 21:48 you wrote:
> Possibly a very dumb question.
> The LaTeX2e item on my Help menu is greyed out.
> The files are installed, but I think Winedt is configure to
> use CHM help and I do not have a CHM help file in
> C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\doc\latex\help
> I would rather use HTML help anyhow, but I cannot find where I can
> change this.
> Can anybody help me?
You can try to redefine associated macro.

Let's assume, that your HTML file is "C:\MiKTeX\help\index.html".

1. Open "Options->Menu Setup..."

2. On the "Main menu" tab page double click the "&Help" item in the list.

3. In opened dialog, click on "&LaTeX2e" item. Now in the "Macro" field should
be something like "HTMLHelp("%$('TeX-Help');\latex2e.chm",1,1);" and in
"Requires File Filter" field "%$('TeX-Help');\latex2e.chm".

4. Replace text in the "Macro" field with

ShellExecute("open","C:\MiKTeX\help\index.html","", "C:\MiKTeX\help",1);

If your file name and/or path is different from supposed, change 2nd and 4th
parameters with full file path and file dir.

5. Clear "Requires File Filter" field. (Or set it to
"C:\MiKTeX\help\index.html", if you want to gray it out, when file doesn't exist)

You can find more information about menu options in WinEdt's help. Description
of ShellExecute macro is located in WinEdt's Macro manual.
--
Best regards,
 Kuznetsov Andrey           pm_kan <at> mail.ru

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Erich Neuwirth | 3 Sep 08:37

Re: WinEdt Latex2e help

I found that I do have latex2e.chm
C:/Program Files/WinEdt Team/WinEdt/Doc/LaTeX/latex2e.chm
installed, but the environment variable "TeX-Help" does not have a value.

So I wanted to try if I can access this help file.

Therefore I added

SetEnvVar("TeX-Help","C:/Program Files/WinEdt Team/WinEdt/Doc/LaTeX//");

To the startup macro.

But even after closing and restarting WinEdt the LaTeX2e menu item on 
the help menu is greyed out. Do I need another value for the environment 
variable?

Erich Neuwirth

Kuznetsov A.N. wrote:
> Hello, Erich Neuwirth!
>  02.09.2008 21:48 you wrote:
>> Possibly a very dumb question.
>> The LaTeX2e item on my Help menu is greyed out.
>> The files are installed, but I think Winedt is configure to
>> use CHM help and I do not have a CHM help file in
>> C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\doc\latex\help
>> I would rather use HTML help anyhow, but I cannot find where I can
>> change this.
>> Can anybody help me?
> You can try to redefine associated macro.
> 
> Let's assume, that your HTML file is "C:\MiKTeX\help\index.html".
> 
> 1. Open "Options->Menu Setup..."
> 
> 2. On the "Main menu" tab page double click the "&Help" item in the list.
> 
> 3. In opened dialog, click on "&LaTeX2e" item. Now in the "Macro" field should
> be something like "HTMLHelp("%$('TeX-Help');\latex2e.chm",1,1);" and in
> "Requires File Filter" field "%$('TeX-Help');\latex2e.chm".
> 
> 4. Replace text in the "Macro" field with
> 
> ShellExecute("open","C:\MiKTeX\help\index.html","", "C:\MiKTeX\help",1);
> 
> If your file name and/or path is different from supposed, change 2nd and 4th
> parameters with full file path and file dir.
> 
> 5. Clear "Requires File Filter" field. (Or set it to
> "C:\MiKTeX\help\index.html", if you want to gray it out, when file doesn't exist)
> 
> You can find more information about menu options in WinEdt's help. Description
> of ShellExecute macro is located in WinEdt's Macro manual.

--

-- 
Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna
Faculty of Computer Science
Computer Supported Didactics Working Group
Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-39464 Fax: +43-1-4277-39459

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Kuznetsov A.N. | 3 Sep 18:54

Re: WinEdt Latex2e help


Hello, Erich Neuwirth!
 03.09.2008 10:37 you wrote:
> I found that I do have latex2e.chm
> C:/Program Files/WinEdt Team/WinEdt/Doc/LaTeX/latex2e.chm
> installed, but the environment variable "TeX-Help" does not have a value.
> 
> So I wanted to try if I can access this help file.
> 
> Therefore I added
> 
> SetEnvVar("TeX-Help","C:/Program Files/WinEdt Team/WinEdt/Doc/LaTeX//");
> To the startup macro.
> 
> But even after closing and restarting WinEdt the LaTeX2e menu item on
> the help menu is greyed out. Do I need another value for the environment
> variable?

"TeX-Help" variable, which used in help macro, isn't environment variable, it is
so-called "local macro variable", so you should use "Assign" instead of "SetEnvVar":

Assign("TeX-Help","C:\Program Files\WinEdt Team\WinEdt\Doc\LaTeX");

After restarting WinEdt (or running Startup Macro manually), you can check value
of this variable in  Options -> "Configuration Wizard..." dialog on "Diagnosis"
tab page.
--
Best regards,
 Kuznetsov Andrey           pm_kan <at> mail.ru

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Erich Neuwirth | 3 Sep 20:11

Re: WinEdt Latex2e help

Thanks,
meanwhile I decided its time for an upgrade,
and WinEdt 5.6 seems to have an extended help file for LaTeX
anyhow. It worked right out of the box.

Kuznetsov A.N. wrote:
> Hello, Erich Neuwirth!
>  03.09.2008 10:37 you wrote:
>> I found that I do have latex2e.chm
>> C:/Program Files/WinEdt Team/WinEdt/Doc/LaTeX/latex2e.chm
>> installed, but the environment variable "TeX-Help" does not have a value.
> 
>> So I wanted to try if I can access this help file.
> 
>> Therefore I added
> 
>> SetEnvVar("TeX-Help","C:/Program Files/WinEdt Team/WinEdt/Doc/LaTeX//");
>> To the startup macro.
> 
>> But even after closing and restarting WinEdt the LaTeX2e menu item on
>> the help menu is greyed out. Do I need another value for the environment
>> variable?
> 
> "TeX-Help" variable, which used in help macro, isn't environment variable, it is
> so-called "local macro variable", so you should use "Assign" instead of "SetEnvVar":
> 
> Assign("TeX-Help","C:\Program Files\WinEdt Team\WinEdt\Doc\LaTeX");
> 
> After restarting WinEdt (or running Startup Macro manually), you can check value
> of this variable in  Options -> "Configuration Wizard..." dialog on "Diagnosis"
> tab page.

--

-- 
Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna
Faculty of Computer Science
Computer Supported Didactics Working Group
Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-39464 Fax: +43-1-4277-39459

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Charles Cresswell | 4 Sep 15:29

Re: Define text colours within winedt

Dear Winedt mailing list,

I am using Winedt to write my PhD thesis, I want to select certain text  
_within Winedt_  and change its colour. For example, I want to make text 
that is not completely finished or needs revisiting red in the actual 
Winedt enviroment. Is there an easy way to do this? NB.I am not asking 
how to make the latex output text colour change.

Best Regards

Charles

--

-- 
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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David Huffer | 4 Sep 16:08

RE: Define text colours within winedt

On Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:30, Charles Cresswell wrote:

 > ...I am using Winedt to write my PhD thesis,
 > I  want  to  select  certain  text   _within
 > Winedt_  and change its colour. For example,
 > I want to make text that is  not  completely
 > finished  or  needs  revisiting  red  in the
 > actual Winedt enviroment. Is there  an  easy
 > way  to  do  this? NB.I am not asking how to
 > make the latex output text colour change...

You could mark the text that is not completed then make a switch
to identify and set it apart from surronding text. See the help
in "Highlighting: Switches".

Something like:

:NotFinishedBegin

lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines of unfinished
text..lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines of
unfinished text..lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines
of unfinished text...

:NotFinishedEnd

or even lots of lines of finished text..lots of lines of
finished text..:NotFinishedBegin lots of lines of unfinished
text..lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines of
unfinished text..:NotFinishedEnd..lots..lots of lines of
finished text..lots of lines of finished text..lots of lines of
finished text..lots of lines of finished text..

so you're start and stop filters would be : and the start2 and
stop2 trigger strings would be respectfully :NotFinishedBegin
and :NotFinishedEnd...that would do it but depending on how big
your file is it can be a little

so you're start and stop filters would be : and the start2 and
stop2 trigger strings would be respectfully :NotFinishedBegin
and :NotFinishedEnd...that would do it but depending on how big
your file is it can be a little

--
 David Huffer, Ph.D.

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Charles Cresswell | 4 Sep 16:25

Re: Define text colours within winedt

David Huffer wrote:
> On Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:30, Charles Cresswell wrote:
>
>  > ...I am using Winedt to write my PhD thesis,
>  > I  want  to  select  certain  text   _within
>  > Winedt_  and change its colour. For example,
>  > I want to make text that is  not  completely
>  > finished  or  needs  revisiting  red  in the
>  > actual Winedt enviroment. Is there  an  easy
>  > way  to  do  this? NB.I am not asking how to
>  > make the latex output text colour change...
>
> You could mark the text that is not completed then make a switch
> to identify and set it apart from surronding text. See the help
> in "Highlighting: Switches".
>
> Something like:
>
> :NotFinishedBegin
>
> lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines of unfinished
> text..lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines of
> unfinished text..lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines
> of unfinished text...
>
> :NotFinishedEnd
>
> or even lots of lines of finished text..lots of lines of
> finished text..:NotFinishedBegin lots of lines of unfinished
> text..lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines of
> unfinished text..:NotFinishedEnd..lots..lots of lines of
> finished text..lots of lines of finished text..lots of lines of
> finished text..lots of lines of finished text..
>
> so you're start and stop filters would be : and the start2 and
> stop2 trigger strings would be respectfully :NotFinishedBegin
> and :NotFinishedEnd...that would do it but depending on how big
> your file is it can be a little
>
> so you're start and stop filters would be : and the start2 and
> stop2 trigger strings would be respectfully :NotFinishedBegin
> and :NotFinishedEnd...that would do it but depending on how big
> your file is it can be a little
>
> --
>  David Huffer, Ph.D.
>
>   
Dear Dr Huffer,

Thanks for your help, I'll try to set that up.

Best Regards

Charles

--

-- 
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Mahmud Yunus | 5 Oct 15:09

switching between 2 MikTeX

Dear WinEdt'ers

I have two MiKTeX (v.2.4 and v.2.7) installed in my computer. Is there any
possibility to switch from using one MiKTeX to another --- in a simple way
on WinEdt?

Best regards
Mahmud Yunus

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Hongsheng Zhao | 5 Oct 15:51

Re: switching between 2 MikTeX

On Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 21:09, yunusm <at> matematika.its.ac.id wrote:
> Dear WinEdt'ers

> I have two MiKTeX (v.2.4 and v.2.7) installed in my computer. Is there any
> possibility to switch from using one MiKTeX to another --- in a simple way
> on WinEdt?

Just set the following value point to the corresponding bin path of
your MiKTeX:

Options -- Execution Modes -- Tex System -- Tex Bin

In deail, use C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin for  MiKTeX v.2.4
and C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.4\miktex\bin for MiKTeX v.2.7

Best regards
--

-- 
Hongsheng Zhao <zhaohscas <at> yahoo.com.cn> 
Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences 
GnuPG DSA: 0xD108493
2008-10-5

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Nicolas Vaughan | 4 Sep 21:26

Re: Define text colours within winedt

Hi,
Can such a filter be used to change the size of the text, and not only its color? (I'm thinking in something as AUCTeX does.)
Regards
Nicolas Vaughan

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:08 AM, David Huffer <David.Huffer <at> csosa.gov> wrote:

On Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:30, Charles Cresswell wrote:

> ...I am using Winedt to write my PhD thesis,
> I want to select certain text _within
> Winedt_ and change its colour. For example,
> I want to make text that is not completely
> finished or needs revisiting red in the
> actual Winedt enviroment. Is there an easy
> way to do this? NB.I am not asking how to

> make the latex output text colour change...

You could mark the text that is not completed then make a switch
to identify and set it apart from surronding text. See the help
in "Highlighting: Switches".

Something like:

:NotFinishedBegin

lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines of unfinished
text..lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines of
unfinished text..lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines
of unfinished text...

:NotFinishedEnd

or even lots of lines of finished text..lots of lines of
finished text..:NotFinishedBegin lots of lines of unfinished
text..lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines of
unfinished text..:NotFinishedEnd..lots..lots of lines of
finished text..lots of lines of finished text..lots of lines of
finished text..lots of lines of finished text..

so you're start and stop filters would be : and the start2 and
stop2 trigger strings would be respectfully :NotFinishedBegin
and :NotFinishedEnd...that would do it but depending on how big
your file is it can be a little

so you're start and stop filters would be : and the start2 and
stop2 trigger strings would be respectfully :NotFinishedBegin
and :NotFinishedEnd...that would do it but depending on how big
your file is it can be a little

--
David Huffer, Ph.D.

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noviodunum | 4 Sep 21:30

Re: Define text colours within winedt

I know that the original question was for something that didn't affect the output text, only the look in winedt, but I have found the fixme package very useful in the past.

Cheers, Kris.

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

From: "Nicolas Vaughan" <nivaca <at> gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:26:19 -0500
To: <winedt+list <at> wsg.net>
Subject: Re: [WinEdt] Define text colours within winedt

Hi,
Can such a filter be used to change the size of the text, and not only its color? (I'm thinking in something as AUCTeX does.)
Regards
Nicolas Vaughan

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:08 AM, David Huffer <David.Huffer <at> csosa.gov> wrote:

On Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:30, Charles Cresswell wrote:

> ...I am using Winedt to write my PhD thesis,
> I want to select certain text _within
> Winedt_ and change its colour. For example,
> I want to make text that is not completely
> finished or needs revisiting red in the
> actual Winedt enviroment. Is there an easy
> way to do this? NB.I am not asking how to

> make the latex output text colour change...

You could mark the text that is not completed then make a switch
to identify and set it apart from surronding text. See the help
in "Highlighting: Switches".

Something like:

:NotFinishedBegin

lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines of unfinished
text..lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines of
unfinished text..lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines
of unfinished text...

:NotFinishedEnd

or even lots of lines of finished text..lots of lines of
finished text..:NotFinishedBegin lots of lines of unfinished
text..lots of lines of unfinished text..lots of lines of
unfinished text..:NotFinishedEnd..lots..lots of lines of
finished text..lots of lines of finished text..lots of lines of
finished text..lots of lines of finished text..

so you're start and stop filters would be : and the start2 and
stop2 trigger strings would be respectfully :NotFinishedBegin
and :NotFinishedEnd...that would do it but depending on how big
your file is it can be a little

so you're start and stop filters would be : and the start2 and
stop2 trigger strings would be respectfully :NotFinishedBegin
and :NotFinishedEnd...that would do it but depending on how big
your file is it can be a little

--
David Huffer, Ph.D.

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WinEdt Team | 4 Sep 22:03

Re: Define text colours within winedt

> Can such a filter be used to change the size of the text, and
> not only its color? (I'm thinking in something as AUCTeX does.)

No, you cannot change the size. Highlighting allows you to
change color, background and font attributes (bold, italic,
strikethrough and underlined). That's all you can do inside
switches.

Best regards,

alex

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Ryan Scott | 2 Sep 21:20

Re: Tex Live 2008

Actually, according the the TeX Live website, it is *now* able to update packages just like MikTeX has been able to do for years.

http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#news

--Ryan

----- Original Message ----
From: Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca <at> gmail.com>
To: winedt+list <at> wsg.net
Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 11:56:22 AM
Subject: Re: [WinEdt] Tex Live 2008

No, Tex Live can't do that (th ough thery're working on it). That's a flaw, of course. But manual installation (of almost everything except fonts) isn't that difficult.
Nicolas

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Jonathan S. Ostroff <jonathan <at> yorku.ca> wrote:

Miktex automatically downloads packages as you need them. Does this work automatically with Texlive?

Jonathan

From: Nicolas Vaughan [mailto:nivaca <at> gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 1:37 PM
To: winedt+list <at> wsg.net
Subject: Re: [WinEdt] Tex Live 2008

Well, to begin with, Tex Live compiles much faster than MikTex (at least twice as fast). This release of TeX Live (2008) includes LuaTeX (TeX based on the Lua programming language) and further support for XeTeX. It also includes the latest version of PDFTeX (1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)), which allows much more subtle typographic control. ( . . . and a lot new features I really don't know about).
Best wishes,
Nicolas Vaughan

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:48 AM, David Huffer <David.Huffer <at> csosa.gov> wrote:

On Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:38, Nicolas Vaughan wrote:

> ...Yesterday the TUG group released version

> 2008 of TeX Live. It works quite nicely, you

> should all try it...

Why? For the uninitiated...

--
David Huffer, Ph.D.
Senior Statistician
CSOSA, Washington, DC
<david.huffer <at> csosa.gov>

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Joseph Wright | 2 Sep 21:26

Re: Tex Live 2008

Ryan Scott wrote:
> Actually, according the the TeX Live website, it is *now* able to update packages just like MikTeX has been
able to do for years.
> 
> http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#news

However, only time will tell if they can match MiKTeX's update frequency
(at least once a week).

Joseph Wright

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David Huffer | 2 Sep 21:56

RE: Tex Live 2008

So far, other than compiling speed, I'm not altogether convinced I
should risk fouling things up with a totally different system.  Is it
easy to swap between miktex and texlive?
--

-- 
 David

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Nicolas Vaughan | 2 Sep 23:18

Re: Tex Live 2008

Its easy enough! At home I use Tex Live, and in the office I use MikTeX.

Nicolas

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:56 PM, David Huffer <David.Huffer <at> csosa.gov> wrote:

So far, other than compiling speed, I'm not altogether convinced I
should risk fouling things up with a totally different system. Is it
easy to swap between miktex and texlive?
--
David

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Nicolas Vaughan | 2 Sep 23:23

Re: Tex Live 2008

Well, the new update feature on TeX Live 2008, so far as I have seen, is useless. There isn't a way to connect to a server to download the updates (as opposed to MikTeX). I think you have to download an update image or something like it---and only then process it somehow with the tlmgr in TeX Live.
Nicolas

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Joseph Wright <joseph.wright <at> morningstar2.co.uk> wrote:

Ryan Scott wrote:
> Actually, according the the TeX Live website, it is *now* able to update packages just like MikTeX has been able to do for years.
>
> http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#news

However, only time will tell if they can match MiKTeX's update frequency
(at least once a week).

Joseph Wright

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Lones Smith | 6 Nov 05:13

10 project maximum

How do I raise the 10 project maximum? (Every time I add a new project, 
the 10th gets killed.)