Re: Jade 1.2 and JadeTeX

[John Fieber <jfieber@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

>  b) the canonical up to date place is CTAN, eg
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/jadetex. this includes a
> directory "cooked" with up to date versions of needed packages.

I'm beginning to think this was a bad idea but....

....to simplify my life and reclaim some vast expanses of disk
space sucked up by the kitchen-sink teTeX distribution, I thought
I'd zap it and build a minimal TeX installation to support
jadetex which is the only thing I really use TeX for these days.

So much for simplification.  It seems that jadetex directly or
indirectly depended on just about everything in the kitchen-sink
distribution!  Okay, I'm exagerating but web2c + latex(2e) +
packages + dvips + jadetex (cooked) doesn't fly.  I'm apparently
missing serveral other pieces--some fonts I know, possibly other
pieces.  It's been about about 5 years since I used TeX
extensively and things have seem to have gotten WAY more
complicated since then.[1]

Does anyone know exactly what jadetex really needs?

A "CTAN shopping list" would be most helpful.

thanks,

-john


1. Maybe somebody should write a TeX macro to plot a LaTeX
   macro dependency graph!


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