Gerben Wierda wrote:
On Jan 10, 2006, at 21:22, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
By and by I've found that I am only using ConTeXt for my typesetting needs. I am curious as to whether someone can advise me how best to install a suitable yet minimal TeX installation: without LaTeX, etc. I am currently using Gerben's very helpful i-Installer.
If someone can tell me which part of my redistro should stay, I can easily rearrange matters such that such a minimal install is possible.
since the minimals have many fonts, they are not that small; they use the [10pt] subsets of cbgreek and cmsuper [karl bery and i hav ebeen playing with subsets and if i'm right tex live now also ships with subsets] which saves many megs; the minimals also don't have latex and other macro packages (only plain tex as this is used in mptopdf); this may safe quite some megs (as well as speeds up file searching) because latex ships with sourcetrees as well also, nothing metafont is included plus a subset of binaries, think of: afm2pl afm2tfm aleph dvips dvitodvi dvitomp dvipdfmx kpseaccess kpsestat kpsewhich mktexlsr mpost mpto pdfetex pltotf texmfstart tftopl ttf2afm ttf2tfm vftovp vptovf (+ xetex) (+ some tool stubs) it's still on taco/mine's agenda to set up a gforce minimal repos at fabrice's server for packagers Hans