On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

>
> On 14 Mar 2008, at 11:34 PM, Bill Mohler wrote:
>
>> Yes, that sure does work!  Thanks.
>>
>> I had just arrived upon:
>>      texi2pdf /usr/share/info/tar | open -f -a Skim
>>
>> But then realized that I don't have a TeX binary installed, so that
>> won't work.
>>
>> A followup question, then.  Is the huge (752 MB) MacTex-2007 package
>> the only appropriate thing for me to use to install TeX on my
>> machine?  Or is there a TeX-Lite type of package that could be
>> installed?
>>
>> Bill
>>
>
> Any TeX distribution is large. I have the one from Gerben Wierda,
> about 525MB. It can be reduced a bit by leaving out some components,
> but not significantly, I think.

FWIW, you can get the BasicTeX install (40 MB) from Dick Koch:

http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/

but I've no idea if it includes enough to make texi2pdf work properly,  
since I use gwTeX.

-- 
adam


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