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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label tds-zip</title>
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-<h3>Prebuilt installation files on the archive</h3>
+<h3>Ready-built installation files on the archive</h3>
<p/>The <a href="FAQ-tds.html">TDS</a> is a simple structure, and almost all
files can be installed simply by putting them in the &ldquo;right&rdquo; place,
and updating a single index. (Note, this simple idea typically
@@ -10,10 +10,15 @@ doesn&rsquo;t work for fonts, unless they&rsquo;re distributed as Metafont sourc
which have a built-in directory structure that matches the TDS.
These files have to be built, and the CTAN team has asked that
package authors supply them (the team will advise, of course, if the
-author has trouble). Everyone hopes that the extra work involved will
-contrinute to happier lives for package users, which in turn must
-surely help keep the TeX community lively and active.
+author has trouble). The CTAN team hopes that the extra work
+involved will contribute to happier lives for package users, which in
+turn must surely help keep the TeX community lively and active.
+<p/>At the time of writing, there are rather few <code>.tds.zip</code>
+files (by comparison with the huge number of packages that are
+available). As packages are updated, the number of files is
+steadily increasing, but it will be a long time before the whole set
+is covered.
<p/>Use of the files is discussed in
-&ldquo;<a href="FAQ-inst-tds-zip.html">installing using preformatted ZIP files</a>&rdquo;.
+&ldquo;<a href="FAQ-inst-tds-zip.html">installing using ready-built ZIP files</a>&rdquo;.
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tds-zip">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tds-zip</a>
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