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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-install.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-install.tex index e16460a7cb3..b65ecb06130 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-install.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-install.tex @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -% $Id: faq-install.tex,v 1.14 2011/04/13 09:45:46 rf10 Exp $ +% $Id: faq-install.tex,v 1.16 2012/02/08 21:59:32 rf10 Exp rf10 $ \section{Installing \AllTeX{} files} @@ -27,17 +27,20 @@ decided what it is that you want to install: How did you learn about the package? If the information came from these \acro{FAQ}s, you should already -have a link to the file (there are lists at the end of each answer): +have a link to the file (there are lists of packages at the end of +each answer). \begin{narrowversion} - make a browser link from \URL{http://mirror.ctan.org/} and the text - in the list; if the link returns a directory listing, you can + Make a browser link from \URL{http://mirror.ctan.org/} and the text + in the package list; if the link returns a directory listing, you can generally retrieve the whole directory by appending the link with - \extension{zip} + \extension{zip}~--- so, for example + \URL{http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/doc.zip} for the \latex{} + documentation directory. \end{narrowversion} \begin{wideversion} - click on one of the links associated with the package, and you can + Click on one of the links associated with the package, and you can get the package (which may be one file or several). -% need searate wording for pdfversion and htmlversion, here +% need separate wording for pdfversion and htmlversion, here \end{wideversion} If you heard about the file somewhere else, it's possible that the @@ -52,10 +55,10 @@ very simplest will actually offer just \File{package.sty}~--- in this case, just download the file and % ! line break \Qref*{get on with installation}{Q-inst-wlcf}. -Normally, though, you will want \File{foo.sty} but that file is distributed -in a \LaTeX{} documented source file \File{foo.dtx}; thus you should -search just for \emph{foo}~--- \File{foo.sty} won't be visible -anywhere on the archive or in the catalogue. +You will regularly find that the file you want (e.g., \File{foo.sty}) +is distributed in a \LaTeX{} documented source file \File{foo.dtx}; +thus you should search just for \emph{foo}~--- \File{foo.sty} won't be +visible anywhere on the archive or in the catalogue. Since most packages are distributed in this \extension{dtx}/\extension{ins} way, they usually occupy their own @@ -197,7 +200,8 @@ On a Unix(-alike) system, using te\TeX{} or \texlive{}, the root directory will be named something like \path{/usr/share/texmf-local/} or \path{/usr/local/share/texmf/} You can ask such a system where it believes a local tree should be: -\begin{quote} +\begin{quote} + \begin{verbatim} kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL \end{verbatim} @@ -500,7 +504,7 @@ last being easy (unless it is forgotten!). Ready-built \acro{ZIP} files~--- also known as % ! line break \Qref*{\acro{TDS}-\acro{ZIP} files}{Q-tds-zip}~--- are designed to lighten the load of performing the first two steps of installation: they -contain all the files that are that's to be installed for a given +contain all the files that are to be installed for a given package, in their ``correct'' locations in a % ! line break \Qref*{\acro{TDS} tree}{Q-tds}. @@ -525,6 +529,7 @@ remaining chore is to update the file indexes~--- as in % ! line break the package provides a font, you also need to enable the font's map, which is discussed in % ! line break ``\Qref*{Installing a Type~1 font}{Q-instt1font}'' +\LastEdit{2012-02-08} \Question[Q-tempinst]{``Temporary'' installation of \AllTeX{} files} @@ -770,7 +775,7 @@ Other answers discuss specific font families~--- for example, \Question[Q-instmffont]{Installing a font provided as \MF{} source} -Metafont fonts are (by comparison with other sorts of font) rather +Installing Metafont fonts is (by comparison with other sorts of font) rather pleasingly simple. Nowadays, they are mostly distributed just as the \MF{} source, since modern \TeX{} distributions are able to produce everything the user needs ``on the fly''; however, if the distribution @@ -787,9 +792,10 @@ specifies where the files should go. Further confusion is introduced by font families whose authors devise rules for automatic generation of \MF{} sources for generating fonts at particular sizes; the installation has to know about the rules, as -otherwise it cannot generate font files. +otherwise it cannot generate font files. No general advice is +available, but most such font families are now obsolescent. -\Question[Q-instprinterfont]{Installing a \PS{} printer built-in font} +\Question[Q-instprinterfont]{`Installing' a \PS{} printer built-in font} There is a ``standard'' set of fonts that has appeared in every \PS{} printer since the second generation of the type. These fonts |