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Sounds like he was looking at downloading a complete TeX Live distribution; XeTeX itself isn't anything like that size (by a couple orders of magnitude, at leas

by jfk13 4y ago

Sounds like he was looking at downloading a complete TeX Live distribution; XeTeX itself isn't anything like that size (by a couple orders of magnitude, at least).

ducktective 4y ago
I think distros package it like TeX-full, TeX-minimal etc...The one having documentation files is a couple of GiB on Ubuntu... I wonder what distro or editor he is using...
- naves 4y ago
  Two years ago, he used macOS on a 13" MacBook Air and an iMac, as per his conversation with Lex Fridman: https://youtu.be/O9upVbGSBFo?t=2523 https://youtu.be/O9upVbGSBFo?t=2523
zimpenfish 4y ago
MacTeX is 4.7GB which matches the 5GB he's talking about and... "MacTeX installs TeX Live, which contains TeX, LaTeX, AMS-TeX, and virtually every TeX-related style file and font. [...] MacTeX also installs the GUI programs TeXShop, LaTeXiT, TeX Live Utility, and BibDesk. MacTeX installs Ghostscript, an open source version of Postscript." Which is, as you say, considerably more than just "XeTeX". (Also those are universal binaries containing both Intel and ARM versions which probably adds some heft.)
- JadeNB 4y ago
  > (Also those are universal binaries containing both Intel and ARM versions which probably adds some heft.) Heh, I remember when "universal binaries" meant "PowerPC and Intel". Different universes ….
  - jhbadger 4y ago
    In the early/mid 1990s there were even "fat binaries" that had 68000 (the original Mac platform) and PowerPC binaries back when PowerPC was the new thing.