On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 06:05:04PM +0000, Phillip Helbig wrote: > The casual user suffers if a colleague uses some non-core stuff which is > not at his installation. The only solution is a canonical installation > which includes almost everything. I must say I would prefer the exact opposite -- a system where one could automatically retrieve anything needed -- fonts or packages -- over the net. I mean a TeX system which regarded the CTANs as part of the system, so kpathsea (or whatever) looked first on the local system, and then further afield if necessary. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: [log in to unmask] tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland