Subject: RE: The DSSSList Digest V1 #225 From: MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx (WROTH, MARK B) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 06:42:42 -0800 |
Some quasi-random comments with respect to > The DSSSList Digest Monday, February 9 1998 Volume 01 : > Number 225 > > > "D. Michael McFarland" <mcfarlan@xxxxxxxx> (">", replying to > Paul Prescod, who wrote (">>": >>I don't know a lot about TeX packaging. I'm wondering if there is a way >>to make a single package file that includes everything JadeTex depends >>upon. I wouldn't personally care if it was 500K or 5MB if it allowed me >>to set up a system without chasing all over the Internet and issuing >>cryptic commands. Of course for the TeX experts a "standalone" JadeTex >>would probably continue to be most appropriate. But I think that there >>are a lot of mere mortals who just want to print on Unix and would >>rather spend an afternoon downloading redundant code in the background >>rather than actively chasing down components. >I started this thread with my question about a JadeTeX error, to which >Sebastian's response, essentially "upgrade hyperref", was just what I >needed to hear. I must admit, though, that to those who want to use >TeX only as a back end to jade it might have seemed terse. [...] >know where I would have found this basic information. As I suspect we >too often do, I assumed there was some fundamental piece of >documentation everyone but me knew about, so I beat my head on the >installation longer than I'd like to admit. If anyone can assure me >that no detailed JadeTeX installation instructions exist, perhaps I'll >try to put something together--a "JadeTeX HOWTO", if you will. I think that would be an excellent thing to have; I'm reasonably familiar with TeX and its variants, and hit several blank walls in trying to bring up JadeTeX. The culprit ultimately was a missing package two or three layers down, but I had to appeal for help from the author to find it (which, I'm happy to say, he provided quickly and correctly). >Please note that I don't mean this to be critical of JadeTeX in any >way; I'm very glad to have it available. I'd like to make it more >accessible to my colleagues, who are just coming to realize the >limitations of MS Word. I second this DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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