Re: [TxMt] Which LaTeX distribution

On 04/10/2007, at 00:01, Alain Matthes wrote:

[...] yes I understand... and I recommended too for the beginners to follow the recommendations but MacTeX is a large download (740M) perhaps in the help, it's possible to speak about the method used by Oktay Acikalin : Basictex.dmg and mactex-additions.dmg

I am not aware of that distro. So how big a DL is that? and is it fully functional for basic stuff?

Definitely if this is enough to get people started with LaTeX (which that part of the bundle help is about) then we should recommend it instead, unless it has some clear disadvantageous.

Can you give the pros/cons of that distro, and maybe the pros of choosing one of the larger distros.