Re: Tips on LaTeX addons

On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:37:21 +0100 Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > Steve, > > so you upgraded TeX and lost some packages? No, I just sat down to work one day and my books didn't compile. I hadn't upgraded TeX. The day before I'd suffered a big data loss on a different partition,

Re: Tips on LaTeX addons

On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:37:21 +0100 Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > > Before I ever upgrade I do something like > > tlmgr list --only-installed \ > | awk '{gsub(/:/, ""); print $2}' > tl.installed Nice! > > and after upgrade > > tlmgr install $(cat

Re: Tips on LaTeX addons

Steve, so you upgraded TeX and lost some packages? I use the (much smaller) BasicTeX version of TeXLive on the Mac which installs into /usr/local/texlive/2017basic and does some fancy juggling with the PATH :-)-O Before I ever upgrade I do something like tlmgr list --only-installed \