Douglas Johnson wrote in <20190807133230.ga25...@panix.com>: |On Aug 07, 2019, at 08:40, John Gardner wrote: | |>Installing TeX on macOS also requires a 3.9 GB download of the full |>MacTeX distribution, whereas Groff's source tree doesn't even consume |>that much space... | |Installing the full MacTeX distribution does indeed require around 4 GB |of space. One can also choose to install the BasicTeX distribution, |which is a subset of the full distribution that provides only the |essential components. The size of the BasicTeX distribution is 110 MB. | |As the difference in size indicates, BasicTeX lacks most of the packages |that have accumulated around TeX in the last forty years. That absence |may or may not matter to you, depending on your needs. BasicTeX provides |functionality for installing missing packages manually. | |More information BasicTeX and the differences between the two |distributions may be found here: | |<https://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html>
There is also kerTeX[1]. Never used it, but since it has all i need if i would find the time and fun to redo my (mostly) lost macro package, i am tracking it since .. 2012. And even though we come to a dozen updates, the git objects pack is <13 MB. [1] http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
