Paul A. Rubin wrote: > TeXLive takes some adjusting to for us MiKTeX users. :-) Whereas > MiKTeX bundles most of the LaTeX packages individually, TeXLive bundles > clusters of them in one package. For instance, subfigure is in > texlive-latex-extra (as are wrapfig and nomencl).
This is of course only true for some distribution repackaging of TeXLive, not for TeXLive proper. [...] > 2. There's a port of the MiKTeX package manager for Linux. Last I > checked it still lacked a graphical interface, so you have to run it > from a terminal. The advantage is that you can install individual > packages as needed. Note that, unlike MiKTeX on Windows, you can't use > it to install missing packages on the fly. TeXLive 2008 has a package manager as well, including a GUI, that lets you install and update individual packages. The only thing it doesn't, as opposed to MikTeX PM, is on-the-fly-installing. Jürgen
