[XeTeX] doc/samples available via i-Installer
Bruno Voisin
bvoisin at mac.com
Wed Mar 9 22:30:21 CET 2005
Le 9 mars 05, à 21:00, Jonathan Kew a écrit :
> I suppose, on thinking about it, I'd suggest that I change the default
> location to ~/Documents. I know Apple says that developers shouldn't
> install things there, it's for users to control. But in this case,
> it's not an application installer that is dumping stuff there (without
> the user's knowledge or control); rather, it's a separate package that
> specifically provides some *Documents*, and this seems a logical
> default place to offer to put them. The fact that this package of
> documents is delivered via an "installer" technology is secondary to
> the fact that it's a bunch of documents.
>
> As always, thanks for the helpful comments. Would ~/Documents be a
> better default, you think? (The knowledgeable user who likes to keep
> things in /Library/Documentation or Application Support or whatever
> can still specify this during installation, of course.)
Thanks for the thanks (!), I was afraid my comments could be
misinterpreted and viewed negatively.
As for ~/Documents, I must say I'm not in favour of it. As some others
have said in the OS TeX thread about i-Packages location, ~/Documents
should, IMHO, only contain user-created files; in my case that means
papers, calculations, reports, notes, presentations, family stuff, etc.
For all the rest (apart from multimedia content in Sequences etc.) it
should go, I think, inside ~/Library or /Library. On my setup I moved,
for example, ~/Documents/i-Packages to ~/Library/i-Packages (though I
would have thought /Library/i-Packages more logical, given the TeX
install is by default a system-wide one), and similarly, at the time I
had it installed, ~/darwinports to ~/Library/darwinports. Similarly I
was rather happy to see that the latest Adobe software no longer
installs stuff inside ~/Documents.
My personal choices would be /Library/Documentation/XeTeX/ for
XeTeX-doc, and /Library/Application Support/XeTeX/ for XeTeX-samples,
but still there would be the problem of how to draw the user's
attention to these folders, in the absence of a GUI. What about
creating a GUI for XeTeX (like a XeTeX mode inside TeXShop, Xcode,
Alpha or Emacs, creating or modifying menus as required) ;)
Enough from me on this, hopefully others will have more relevant
suggestions,
Bruno
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