[XeTeX] Loading fonts from a common server or http URL

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:36:24 +0200 schrieb Tobias Schoel:


>> In my opinion, this is the way of the future. It is ludicrous
>> that we all have to create our own virtual CTAN mirrors. Far
>> better to evolve a methodology that will, entirely transparently,
>> use a local copy as first choice; fetch (via http) a remote copy
>> and make it local, as second choice; and (3) offer a configuration
>> option to check whether the remote copy is more recent than the
>> local and if so, fetch it (and install it locally) automatically
>> when that file is next required.
> 
> I thought, MikTeX offers that: whenever a package is loaded, that is not 
> already installed, it is downloaded on the fly and then loaded. I'm not 
> sure about the version check, but it's not always advisable to use the 
> latest version of a package.

Miktex installs on-the-fly only missing packages. It doesn't do a
version check during compilation (that would be a nuisance as it
would slow down compilation a lot). But there is - as with TeXLive
an update manager to check if newer version of installed packages
exist. 


-- 
Ulrike Fischer