On Oct 3, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Alain Matthes wrote:
Le 3 oct. 07 à 20:12, Charilaos Skiadas a écrit :
On 03/10/2007, Khushru Khumbatta kuadka@web.de wrote:
being a new TextMate user I want to install now a TeX/LaTex distribution. Yet there are so many of them. Which one works best with the LaTeX bundle of Textmate?
We recommend that you use MacTeX ➲ to install the necessary parts as it comes with a standard “no questions asked” installer.
As of this writing, the installer also takes care of updating your PATH variable (by modifying /etc/profile) so TextMate will be able to find the installed pdflatex. If you are using another distribution you may need to setup the path manually ⓘ .
I-installer set the path !
"being a new TextMate user" is different of "being a new TeX user"
If setting a PATH is not a problem, and if the user wants something special why not I-installer?
and why not the real TL2007 distribution ?
With MacTeX, is it easy now to add a font ? For example , with I- installer I have fourier directly. Is it the same with macTeX ?
I wasn't saying not to use other distributions, nor that i-installer does not set the path. I was merely quoting what the bundle help says. If someone is an experienced TeX user or has special needs, then of course they might want a different kind of install, I was just quoting what we recommend. I personally have been very happy with MacTeX. Fourier works just fine (though I don't think I did anything particular to it).
Alain
Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College