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authorReinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha@web.de>2008-06-21 21:29:09 +0000
committerReinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha@web.de>2008-06-21 21:29:09 +0000
commit093dbea8dc6e8e0df83269bff0de93b96413d825 (patch)
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parent620a3d5839d672c7fed9ceca4091b4949da82915 (diff)
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--- a/Master/tlpkg/installer/install-menu-text.pl
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/installer/install-menu-text.pl
@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ sub html2text {
s/<p>.*//gi; # paragraphs
s/<\/ul>.*//gi; # unsorted lists
s/<\/ol>.*//gi; # ordered lists
- s/&emdash;/--/gi; # emdash
+ s/&mdash;/--/gi; # mdash
s/&lt;/</gi; s/&gt;/>/gi; # < and >
if (/<h1>(.*?)<\/h1>/i) {
push @text, " " x $h1_indent. "$1\n";
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/installer/install-tl.html b/Master/tlpkg/installer/install-tl.html
index ea8dcc92d09..947e0df4145 100644
--- a/Master/tlpkg/installer/install-tl.html
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/installer/install-tl.html
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
<title>The TeX Live installer</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
-<!-- **** Still from TL-2007, needs to be updated **** -->
+<!-- $Id: -->
<h1>The TeX Live installer</h1>
This is the installation program of the TeX Live distribution.
<p>
@@ -16,47 +16,51 @@ and then do <tt>&lt;I&gt;</tt> (start installation).
To select a menu item (a letter or a number marked with brackets)
just enter the corresponding letter or number and press return
(the letters are case insensitive except when collections
-are being selected). Do not enter the
-angle brackets <tt>&lt;&gt;</tt> themselves.
+are being selected). Do not enter the angle brackets <tt>&lt;&gt;</tt> themselves.
<p>
We will now consider each menu item in more detail:
<h2>The binary systems menu (<tt>&lt;B&gt;</tt>)</h2>
-The systems menu allows you to select and deselect
-the binary packages for various different platforms.
+The systems menu allows you to select and deselect the binary
+packages for various different platforms. You cannot install Unix
+binaries on Windows but vice versa.
<h2>The schemes menu (<tt>&lt;C&gt;</tt>)</h2>
-You can choose from a number of different installation
-schemes for TeX Live. Selecting one of these selects
-some collections in the Collections and Languages lists.
-which you can subsequently modify.
+You can choose from a number of different installation schemes
+for TeX Live. Selecting one of these selects some collections
+in the Collections and Languages lists which you can subsequently
+modify.
<h2>The collections menu (<tt>&lt;C&gt;</tt>)</h2>
The collections menu allows you to select and deselect standard
-collections. Each collection &emdash; TeX macro files, Metafont font
-families, and so on &emdash; consists of several packages.
+collections. Each collection &mdash; TeX macro files, Metafont font
+families, and so on &mdash; consists of several packages.
+<p>
+More than one collection can be selected/deselected at the same time.
<h2>The language collections menu (<tt>&lt;L&gt;</tt>)</h2>
The language collections menu allows you to select and deselect
language support collections. Each collection consists of several
packages, which provide features like hyphenation files and fonts.
+<p>
+More than one collection can be selected/deselected at the same time.
<h2>The directories menu (<tt>&lt;D&gt;</tt>)</h2>
The TeX Live distribution will be installed in a single directory tree
-(<tt>TEXDIR</tt>). You may choose any directory you like
-since there are no absolute paths compiled into the binaries. Instead,
-the Kpathsea library selfdir feature ensures that all
-paths are relative to the location of the binaries.
+(<tt>TEXDIR</tt>). You may choose any directory you like since there are
+no absolute paths compiled into the binaries. Instead, the Kpathsea
+library selfdir feature ensures that all paths are relative to the
+plocation of the binaries.
<p>
The platform independent files are stored in a directory tree in
-<tt>TEXDIR/texmf</tt>. There is also an extra directory for performing
-administrative tasks like change of configuration and languages. This
-is where all format files are stored. It defaults to <tt>TEXDIR/texmf-var</tt>.
+<tt>TEXDIR/texmf</tt>. There are also extra directories for performing
+administrative tasks like change of configuration and languages. They
+default to <tt>TEXDIR/texmf-var</tt> and <tt>TEXDIR/texmf-config</tt>.
<p>
This system allows you to mount your <tt>TEXDIR/texmf</tt> tree read-only.
@@ -64,14 +68,28 @@ This system allows you to mount your <tt>TEXDIR/texmf</tt> tree read-only.
The options are not applicable to all installations. Set them as
appropriate for yours.
-<h3>alternate fonts directory</h3>
-You can choose an alternate directory for automatically generated fonts;
-the default is <tt>TEXMFSYSVAR/fonts</tt>
+<h3>use letter size instead of a4 by default</h3>
+
+You can choose letter as the default paper size for some programs.
+
+<h3>create all format files</h3>
+
+If this option is set, format files are created for system-wide use
+by the installer. Otherwise they are will be created automatically
+when needed.
<p>
-One disadvantage may be that new fonts are not shared. I.e., if you
-set this to /tmp, and users on two different machines need the same
-font, it will be built twice, once on each machine.
+In the latter case format files are stored in user's directory trees
+and in some cases have to be re-created when new packages are
+installed.
+
+<h3>install doc or source trees</h3>
+
+Normally all packages are installed with the source and documentation,
+but these are not needed to actually run the software. If you
+are installing a system for other people, it would be unfriendly to
+select these options; if you know what you are doing and need a
+minimal disk footprint, go ahead
<h3>symlinks in standard directories (UNIX only)</h3>
@@ -90,23 +108,14 @@ not shared, you need to create the symbolic links on each client, too
If you do not use the <i>symlinks</i> option, you probably need to set up
your search paths (<tt>PATH</tt>, <tt>MANPATH</tt>, <tt>INFOPATH</tt>).
-<h3>do not install doc or source trees</h3>
-
-These options are not recommended, but you can use them to save space.
-Normally all packages are installed with the source and/or documentation,
-but these are not needed to actually run the software. If you
-are installing a system for other people, it would be unfriendly to
-select these options; if you know what you are doing and need a
-minimal disk footprint, go ahead
-
<h2>Install for running from DVD (<tt>&lt;V&gt;</tt>)</h2>
-This option starts up a minimal setup which allows TeX Live
-to be run out directly from the DVD. For running live, our first
-command will be <tt>&lt;d&gt;</tt> and then the subcommand <tt>&lt;1&gt;</tt>
-to set directories. Even in this case, we must choose a directory on
-the local disk to place files that the TeX system itself generates, such
-as fonts and formats, and also to provide a place for updated
-configuration files, if need be.
+This option sets up a minimal setup which allows TeX Live to
+be run directly from the DVD.
+<p>
+A few directories on the hard disk have to be created for files
+created by the TeX system itsef and for modified configuration files.
+Please change <tt>TEXDIRW</tt> first in the directories menu <tt>&lt;D&gt;</tt>.
+
</body>
</html>