2 Structure and contents of the CD-ROM

The important CD-ROM top-level directories are listed below.

bin

The TeX family programs, arranged in separate platform directories.

doc

Documentation for TeX Live.

cstug

Material for the Czech/Slovak TeX Users Group.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions, in English, French and German.

info

Documentation in GNU `info' format for the TeX system.

man

Documentation in the form of Unix man pages for the TeX system.

source

The source of all programs, including the main Web2c TeX and Metafont distributions.

support

Various bits of TeX-related software which are not installed by default, such as MusixTeX, support programs, and a complete distribution of Ghostscript.

systems

Packaged TeX systems which are separate from the main TeX Live. Subdirectories in here are:

amiga

Extra support programs for the Amiga.

macintosh

The OzTeX and CMacTeX packages ready to install, plus some other utilities.

msdos

DOS TeX packages---djgppTeX, emTeX, and three TeX shells.

win32

TeX packages for Windows 95 and NT users ---MikTeX, and the editor/shell WinEdt.

wingut

The GUTenberg TeX distribution for Windows

texmf

The main support tree of macros, fonts and documentation;

TUG

Material about the TeX Users Group.

winedt

A ready to run installation of WinEdt for Windows 95/NT.

There are also two installation scripts for Unix systems, install-cd.sh and install-pkg.sh; we discuss them on in section refsec:install on p. 9.

2.1 The TDS tree

The TeX Live texmf tree consists of various `collections', each of which has a set of `packages', of which there are over 400 on the CD-ROM. Normal installation allows the user to copy all of a collection to a local hard disk from the CD-ROM, but it is also possible to install just one package of a collection. The collections are:

ams

The American Mathematical Society macro packages and fonts.

bibtex

BIBTeX styles and databases.

doc

General guides and documentation in various formats, including HTML and PDF.

dvips

Support for Rokicki's DVI-to-PostScript driver.

etex

Support for e-TeX.

fonts

Font sources, metrics, PostScript and bitmap forms.

formats

Eplain, RevTeX, physxx, texsis, alatex, text1, lollipop, etc.

generic

Extra macros for use with any format.

graphics

Macro packages for graphics.

lang

Support for non-English languages.

latex

LaTeX, including official tools and all LaTeX2e contributed packages.

metapost

Support for MetaPost.

omega

Support for Omega.

plain

Macros for plain TeX.

systems

Binaries for Unix, Amiga and Win32 platforms.

texlive

Basic material for the distribution.

Each of the collections is divided into basic (1), recommended (2) and other (3). The appendix starting on page 63 lists all the packages in alphabetical order with the collection they are found in, and a brief description. Thus all packages in collection latex1 are what one must have to get started with LaTeX, packages in latex2 are recommended for most users, and latex3 contains optional packages. The directory texmf/lists contains lists of all files in each package (used by the installation programs).