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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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committer | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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diff --git a/support/tlaunch/README b/support/tlaunch/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5fe26a136a --- /dev/null +++ b/support/tlaunch/README @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +The TeX Live Launcher is an easy way to give Windows users access to +a TeX Live installation on a network as if it were a local +installation. + +Features: + +- On first startup, the launcher does the user configuration which + would otherwise have been done during a local installation. + +- the menu items and buttons within the launcher replace the several + Start menu items normally created during a local installation. + +- Easy customization with an ini file, e.g. incorporating additional + software + +See the manual for placement of tlaunch.exe and tlaunch.ini, and for +customizing the ini file. + +The launcher is already part of TeX Live. The 2017 installer has an +option to make the installation launcher-based. + +A script tlaunchmode is included which can convert a classic +installation into a launcher-based one and back. The manual has a +section on this script. + +The file rug.zip contains as an example a more elaborate +configuration, based on the installation at the Rijksuniversiteit +Groningen. |