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Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes!

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jfine2358@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, August 2, 2002 at 3:02:50 PM UTC+1, Charles Blair wrote:
>> A recent question about emTeX makes me wonder what became of
>> emTeX.  Since Thomas Esser made available TeX/LaTeX implementations
>> for linux, I have not used Mr Mattes' software for a long time.
>> However, it was very important freeware for many years.  
> 
> I used emTeX for several years on a PC. I liked it.
> It worked well and was reliable. And it fitted on a 40MB
> hard disk (what I had then). This was in the early 1990s.
> I'm also grateful to Eberhard Mattes.

Ditto. I started with (La)TeX in the late 1980's using the
commercial Personal TeX (apparently still being sold at pctex.com),
and switched to emTeX in the early 1990's when I discovered it
distributed with Slackware linux (they've since switched to teTeX).

Question: Is there some tl-lite distribution, or some install-tl
script that >>automatically<< lightens it up? Slackware has stuck
with teTeX because tl is too "heavy". While it's easy enough to
run install-tl and manually choose components, it would be nice to
have a maintained install-tl-lite script so that the Slackware team
could easily package tl with their linux distribution. I'd guess
they'd want something in the ~250MB size (that's about what their
teTeX uses).
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )

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Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes! jfine2358@gmail.com - 2016-04-07 02:36 -0700
  Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes! JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-07 22:26 +0000
    Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes! Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> - 2016-04-07 23:46 +0100
      TeXLive on Slackware (was: Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes!) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-08 23:12 +0000
        Re: TeXLive on Slackware (was: Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes!) Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-11 05:03 +0000
          Re: TeXLive on Slackware John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2016-04-11 07:11 +0000
            Re: TeXLive on Slackware Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 08:59 +0000
              Re: TeXLive on Slackware jfbu <jfREMOVEbu@free.fr> - 2016-04-11 11:41 +0200
                Re: TeXLive on Slackware JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-13 02:20 +0000
            Re: TeXLive on Slackware Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-11 21:07 +0000
          Re: TeXLive on Slackware (was: Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes!) Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 08:54 +0000
            Re: TeXLive on Slackware (was: Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes!) Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-11 21:12 +0000
              Re: TeXLive on Slackware Qun-Ying <zhu.qunying@gmail.com> - 2016-04-13 11:13 -0700
                Re: TeXLive on Slackware Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-13 18:39 +0000
      Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes! Dan Luecking <LookInSig@uark.edu> - 2016-04-13 12:52 -0500

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