On Mar 16, 2008, at 7:58 AM, Ted Pavlic wrote:

> Again, as Christiaan has discussed, having TeX is not going to help
> unless you have the .texi source.

No kidding.

> There is no info2pdf available, so the best you can do is look at the
> raw info files.

I just wanted to point people towards a small TeX distribution.  Yes,  
I should have started snipping the quote at "A followup question...",  
and then maybe you wouldn't have needed to post this.  Sue me.

adam

>
>
> Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
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