Ben schrieb: > OK, so I'm trying to install ProTeXt. Or in fact I only need LaTeX, > but I understood that I then needed this huge package.
Then you understood wrong. In case you only need LaTeX, there's no obstacle to load MiKTeX directly from www.miktex.org > Now, I happen to really have a strong dislike for Adobe's monstrously > huge pdf-reader. > I use FoxIt pdf-reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/), so > why this weird requirement of commercial Adobe software I don't need? > Could someone tell me how to skip this nonsense and install without > being force-fed a ridiculous Adobe Acrobat monster? Start FoxIt and open install\protext-install-en.pdf - i've got some notes that it may work. Alternatively enter MiKTeX\setup and start MiKTeX's setup-routine manually. > It's bad enough that its footprint is the size of an entire CD (why, > by the way? OpenOffice.org's full install is only 110 MB..) Perhaps because TeX isn't OpenOffice? > but I > really refuse to install Adobe software in order to be able to start > installation for LaTeX. > And then to even have to join a mailinglist for just this 1 question. Nobody claims that you've to join a mailinglist. You could post your question in comp.text.tex as well. > Geez. Sorry to have to say this, but some software developers clearly > have their heads up their asses. Well, you've got a complete software-distribution free of charge and furthermore you demand support for it. Do you think its the right way abusing the developers? _______________________________________________ protext mailing list http://tug.org/protext/
