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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2013-05-12 23:18:45 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2013-05-12 23:18:45 +0000
commitfe6172453383dac9a108fdab9cec28ed726552bb (patch)
tree02bb6b76e97605b20eefedc2d8783e4f11ad115e /Master
parent7037f9ce2cf9b32091a60e6e431fd38300921996 (diff)
siep fixes for windows, et al.
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@30427 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
index ed284304908..d66a50ae429 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
@@ -1323,8 +1323,8 @@ Links for some other tools you may consider installing:
\url{http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html}.
\item \cmdname{Texmaker} is free software, available from
\url{http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker}.
- \item \cmdname{TexMakerX} is a fork of \cmdname{Texmaker} with
- additional features; \url{http://texmakerx.sourceforge.net}.
+ \item \cmdname{TeXstudio} started out as a fork of \cmdname{Texmaker} with
+ additional features; \url{http://texstudio.sourceforge.net}.
\item \cmdname{TeXnicCenter} is free software, available from
\url{http://www.texniccenter.org} and in the pro\TeX{}t distribution.
\item \cmdname{TeXworks} is free software, available from
@@ -1421,20 +1421,21 @@ convenient to create an \ISO\ of your \TL{} installation, because:
Of course you can also burn an \ISO\ to \DVD, if that is useful for you.
-Desktop \GNU/Linux/Unix systems, including \MacOSX, are able to mount an
-\ISO. Apart from that, nothing changes compared to a normal hard disk
-installation, see section \ref{sec:env}.
+Desktop \GNU/Linux/Unix systems, including \MacOSX, are able to
+mount an \ISO. Windows 8 is the first(!) Windows version which can
+do this. Apart from that, nothing changes compared to a normal hard
+disk installation, see section \ref{sec:env}.
When preparing such an \ISO\ installation, it is best to omit the
subdirectory for the release year, and have
\filename{texmf-local} at the same level as the other trees
-(\filename{texmf}, \filename{texmf-dist}, etc.). You can do this with
+(\filename{texmf-dist}, \filename{texmf-var}, etc.). You can do this with
the normal directory options in the installer.
-For a physical (rather than virtual) Windows system, you can burn the
-\ISO\ to \acro{DVD}. However, it may be worth your while to investigate
-free \ISO-mounting options. For Windows \acro{XP}, Microsoft offers
-\filename{winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel}.
+For a physical (rather than virtual) Windows system, you can burn
+the \ISO\ to \acro{DVD}. However, it may be worth your while to
+investigate free \ISO-mounting options such as WinCDEmu at
+\url{http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/}.
For Windows system integration, you can include the \filename{w32client}
scripts described in section~\ref{sec:sharedinstall} and at
@@ -1661,7 +1662,7 @@ pieces:
The Windows counterpart of a Unix home directory is the
\verb|%USERPROFILE%| directory. Under Windows \acro{XP}, this
is usually \verb|C:\Documents and Settings\<username>|, and under
-Windows Vista and Windows~7 it is \verb|C:\Users\<username>|. In the
+Windows Vista and later it is \verb|C:\Users\<username>|. In the
\filename{texmf.cnf} file, and \KPS{} in general, \verb|~| will expand
appropriately on both Windows and Unix.
@@ -1713,12 +1714,11 @@ be always usable from within such a command-prompt. The shortcut for
\TeX{}works, if installed, also prepends \TL{} to the search path, so it
should also be immune to this path problem.
-For Vista and Windows~7 there is another twist: even if you are logged in as
-administrator, you need to explicitly ask for administrator
+For Windows Vista and later there is another twist: even if you are
+logged in as administrator, you need to explicitly ask for administrator
privileges. In fact, there is not much point in logging in as
-administrator. Instead, right-clicking on the program or shortcut
-that you want to run usually gives you a choice `Run as
-administrator'.
+administrator. Instead, right-clicking on the program or shortcut that
+you want to run usually gives you a choice `Run as administrator'.
\subsection{Increasing maximum memory on Windows and Cygwin}
\label{sec:cygwin-maxmem}