From 317e397de1292f6565520e1ec532b2a7ad7bb009 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Berry Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 22:43:08 +0000 Subject: doc git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@50796 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751 --- Master/install-tl | 28 ++++++++++++++-------------- Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl | 12 +++++++----- 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) (limited to 'Master') diff --git a/Master/install-tl b/Master/install-tl index c11f28c028c..abe4ca265f7 100755 --- a/Master/install-tl +++ b/Master/install-tl @@ -2710,10 +2710,10 @@ C<-no-gui> option. =item C -The tcl user interface (default on Mac OS and Windows). It starts -out with a small number of configuration options, roughly equivalent +The Tcl/Tk user interface (default on Macs and Windows). It starts +with a small number of configuration options, roughly equivalent to what the wizard option below offers, but a button C -takes you to a screen with roughly the same options as the perltk +takes you to a screen with roughly the same options as the C interface. =item C @@ -2738,20 +2738,20 @@ available, installation continues in text mode, except on Windows, where all gui options except C are diverted to the default C GUI. -The C GUI requires Tcl/Tk. This is part of Mac OS and is often -already installed on Linux. For Windows, TeX Live provides a Tcl/Tk +The C GUI requires Tcl/Tk. This is standard on Macs and is often +already installed on GNU/Linux. For Windows, TeX Live provides a Tcl/Tk runtime. =item B<-no-gui> -Use the text mode installer (default except on Windows and Mac OS). +Use the text mode installer (default except on Windows and Macs). =for comment Keep language list in sync with tlmgr. =item B<-lang> I By default, the GUI tries to deduce your language from the -environment. The tcl GUI uses the language detection built into +environment. The Tcl GUI uses the language detection built into Tcl/Tk; the Perl/Tk GUIs use the C environment variable. If that fails you can select a different language by giving this option with a language code (based on ISO 639-1). @@ -2782,12 +2782,12 @@ will be adjusted accordingly. =item B<-select-repository> -This option allows you to choose a particular mirror from the -current list of active CTAN mirrors. This option is supported in the -text, wizard and perltk installer modes, and will also offer to -install from local media if available, or from a repository -specified on the command line. It's useful when the (default) -automatic redirection does not choose a good host for you. +This option allows you to choose a particular mirror from the current +list of active CTAN mirrors. This option is supported in the C, +C and C installer modes, and will also offer to install +from local media if available, or from a repository specified on the +command line. It's useful when the (default) automatic redirection does +not choose a good host for you. =item B<-all-options> @@ -2814,7 +2814,7 @@ building TeX Live, see L. =item B<-debug-translation> -In the Perl/Tk GUI modes, this options reports any missing, or more +In the Perl/Tk GUI modes, this option reports any missing, or more likely untranslated, messages to standard error. Helpful for translators to see what remains to be done. diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl index fcd92f3c224..eed8e75f1a3 100755 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl @@ -2520,7 +2520,7 @@ sub auto_remove_install_force_packages { # # for some packages (texworks, psview, ...) we only have w32 packages # in the repository, but it is possible that alternative repositories - # ship binaries for some platforms (like texworks for linux on tlcontrib) + # ship binaries for some platforms (like texworks for GNU/Linux on tlcontrib) # currently updating from tlnet will remove these alternative .ARCH # packages because they are not listed anywhere locally, so they # are considered as disappearing. @@ -9292,11 +9292,13 @@ L. For Unix-based systems Perl/Tk (as well as Perl of course) has to be installed outside of TL. L has a list of invocations for some distros. For Windows the necessary -modules are no longer shipped within TeX Live. +modules are no longer shipped within TeX Live, so you'll have to have an +external Perl available that includes them. -We are talking here about the GUI built into tlmgr itself, not about -the other tlmgr GUIs: tlshell, tlcockpit (Java-based) and, for Mac -OS only, TeX Live Utility. These are invoked as separate programs. +We are talking here about the GUI built into tlmgr itself, not about the +other tlmgr GUIs, which are: tlshell (Tcl/Tk-based), tlcockpit +(Java-based) and, only on Macs, TeX Live Utility. These are invoked as +separate programs. The GUI mode of tlmgr is started with the invocation C; assuming Tk is loadable, the graphical user interface will be shown. -- cgit v1.2.3