On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 16:41 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Bandwidth and disk space are cheap. > > They're not. Cost of me downloading a 24Mb open office clipart package = = £20/month (takes 7 minutes to download) = 0.3 pence Cost of diskspace = £120 / 80Gb = 3.5 pence Cost of me spending 5 minutes setting up clipart for my mum: = £20 / hour = £1.67 > >> Think your latex man is interested in installing megs of fonts for > >> languages he does not type? (how do you decide beforehand which > >> language a latex user will want to type) > > > > You don't, you patch the latex program to install it's own font when > > it's first used in a document (trivial). > > Only works if either your user is working on someone else's document > that specifies this font, or if he knows the font beforehand. Normal > users need to have fonts installed before they think to use them. latex files are compiled from .tex to .pdf, and the compiler knows exactly what filename it needs. Richard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
