[tex-live] scheme modern

[Arno Trautmann]

Hi all,

starting a new thread as the other one grew rather large …
Sorry for not answering as fast as most of you, I did not expect that
many answers – thank you all very much for the comments and interesting
explanations!
As far as I can see, there are three important points to clarify:

• What is the purpose of a "modern" (however we call it) scheme?
• What should be in this scheme?
• Can we save space at all?

• First point is easy as it is my personal reason: I give introductory
curses at the university (as a regular course, i.e. 3 months with sheets
and ECTS-credit points) that goes quite beyond "type this and you get
that". This summer, it will be based on luaLaTeX and therefore I thought
it would be nice for the beginners not to have to install the full
scheme but a somewhat (as much as possible) smaller installation without
loosing any functionality – of course without the possibility to compile
old documents. For that, they can upgrade to full.
The intention is to keep the necessary number of files as small as possible.

• Now, what would they need? This is the cruxial question. I try to give
a list here that should cover most things for what a beginner needs in
my oppinion …
 – formatas for XeLaTeX and luaLaTeX
 – font loading (otf/ttf, tfm) and some fonts (TeX Gyre), microtype
 – LaTeX3 (as fontspec depends on expl3 and xparse is very usefull)
 – graphics: external graphics as well as PStricks and TiKZ, xcolor
 – KOMA script bundle
 – presentation classes (beamer, powerdot, lecturer)
 – packages for tabular typesetting
 – advanced maths (amsmath, also unicode-math and many other packages)
 – bibliography: biblatex+biber (no BibTeX needed then, I think)
 – manymany things I forgot now …

• I have much too little about TeXlive and all dependencies to tell
wether disk space could be saved or a large number of files could be
dropped. That is the question for the experts here and I would be very
happy for some answers and further comments.

I hope I have made my points a bit clearer so the discussion can go into
a straight direction.

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