From bcc09062b555414b10ecddd72302c832920669f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Berry Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 23:29:14 +0000 Subject: account for possibility of network installation git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@10196 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751 --- Master/readme.html/readme.en.html | 44 ++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/Master/readme.html/readme.en.html b/Master/readme.html/readme.en.html index c871c5443d2..53eb58f177e 100644 --- a/Master/readme.html/readme.en.html +++ b/Master/readme.html/readme.en.html @@ -24,50 +24,42 @@ href="../LICENSE.CTAN">LICENSE.CTAN text files. undertaking the installation. It includes step-by-step instructions, a description of the top-level directories, and more. -

English versions of the Guide are in the +

English versions of the Guide are on the DVD in the texmf-doc/doc/english/ hierarchy, in both html and pdf formats. Translations to other languages are also available under texmf-doc/doc/*. +

We also provide a list of links to the +available PDF and HTML documentation for the included packages and +programs. + +

If you are installing from the Internet, the above links won't work. +In that case, please see the documentation on the Internet at the TeX Live web site. +

For a list of the most important changes in this year's release, see the Release history section at the end of the documentation.

Installation

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The installation script is now named install-tl, and has -both GUI (default on Windows) and text (default on everything else) -operation modes. You can force one or the other with the options --gui and -no-gui, respectively. +

The installation script is now named install-tl (that's +install-tl.bat on Windows), and it has both GUI (default on +Windows) and text (default on everything else) operation modes. You can +force one or the other with the options -gui and +-no-gui, respectively. -

Post-installation package updates and other configuration is now +

Post-installation package updates and other configurations are now performed with the tlmgr (TeX Live Package Manager) script, which likewise has both GUI and text modes. +

You can give the command-line option --help to both +install-tl and tlmgr for an overview. -

Documentation

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Most of the documentation can be viewed online, before the TeX system -is installed. To read it most conveniently, you will need to have a -browser (such as Firefox) for HTML -documents, and a PDF reader (such as gv or xpdf or Sumatra PDF -- all free alternatives to Acrobat) for PDF documents. - -

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Links

Finally, a few related web pages, for your reference. These are not included in TeX Live: -- cgit v1.2.3