[Ii2-announce] TeX Live Extra's i-Package released (includes GTAMacFonts)

[Gerben Wierda]

I have released a special i-Package for TeX Live, "TeX Live Support:  
GW Extras". This i-Package contains GTAMacFonts and TeXDist:

- GTAMacFonts requires the fondu program to work (i-Package  
available). It will unpack several Apple System fonts and make them  
usable for TeX. After installation, run "texdoc gtamacfonts" on the  
command line to get the documentation. These fonts need to be unpacked  
on your system for legal reasons, hence they cannot be fully part of a  
free TeX distribution. The i-Package installs the (free license)  
support files (e.g. style files) and then generates the ttf files from  
Apple's fonts and puts them in your texmf-local.

- TeXDist is a way to represent TeX distributions and work with them.  
A texdist program is added to work with different distributions from  
the command line (texdist --help will give you documentation). It also  
installs the Preference Pane from Jérôme Laurens so you can switch TeX  
distributions easily.

G

PS. I am moving to TeX Live 2008 as my default system. This means that  
in the future I will probably completely drop any personal TeX  
distributions for my own use. I have not decided what to do with the  
existing stuff.