The TeX Live Guide, 5th edition

Sebastian Rahtz
sebastian.rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk
Michel Goossens
m.goossens@cern.ch

April 2000

Contents
List of Tables
1 Introduction
 1.1 Extensions to TeX
2 Structure and contents of the CD-ROM
 2.1 The TDS tree
3 Installation and use under Unix
 3.1 Running TeX Live from the CD-ROM
 3.2 Installing TeX Live to a hard disk
 3.3 Installing individual packages from TeX Live to a hard disk
 3.4 The texconfig program
4 Installation and use under Windows
 4.1 Running TeX Live from the CD-ROM
 4.2 Installing to your hard disk
5 Building on a new Unix platform
 5.1 Prerequisites
 5.2 Configuration
 5.3 Running make
 5.4 Final configuration steps
6 A user’s guide to the Web2c system
 6.1 Kpathseapath searching
 6.2 Filename databases
 6.3 Runtime options
7 History and acknowledgements
8 Future versions
9 The texmf.cnf file