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* Installation documentationPeter Flynn
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 `* Re: Installation documentationDavid N. Williams
  `- Re: Installation documentationPeter Flynn

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 by: Peter Flynn - Wed, 1 Feb 2023 11:26 UTC

I am reviewing the installation instructions at
http://latex.silmaril.ie/formattinginformation/instsw.html

• Is it still really necessary nowadays to give a screen-by-screen,
click-by-click description of what to do?

• Can it be assumed that even the beginner is able to install TL
without prompts?

I do make it a condition of the rest of the document that you know how
to use your computer
(http://latex.silmaril.ie/formattinginformation/introduction.html#skills)
but should this apply to installation as well?

If there are still people out there who need this level of hand-holding,
I'm very happy to go through it and re-shoot the screens, except that I
don't have access to any Windows systems, let alone modern ones. I do
have a spare desktop PC with a 1024×768 screen but I'd need to obtain
Windows first because currently its running Linux.

All suggestions welcome

Peter

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 by: jfh - Wed, 1 Feb 2023 19:30 UTC

On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 12:27:04 AM UTC+13, peter wrote:
> I am reviewing the installation instructions at
> http://latex.silmaril.ie/formattinginformation/instsw.html
>
> • Is it still really necessary nowadays to give a screen-by-screen,
> click-by-click description of what to do?
>
> • Can it be assumed that even the beginner is able to install TL
> without prompts?
>
> I do make it a condition of the rest of the document that you know how
> to use your computer
> (http://latex.silmaril.ie/formattinginformation/introduction.html#skills)
> but should this apply to installation as well?
>
> If there are still people out there who need this level of hand-holding,
> I'm very happy to go through it and re-shoot the screens, except that I
> don't have access to any Windows systems, let alone modern ones. I do
> have a spare desktop PC with a 1024×768 screen but I'd need to obtain
> Windows first because currently its running Linux.
>
> All suggestions welcome
>
> Peter
I am one of the people who value such instructions even though I'm not a beginner: I wrote my first program nearly 60 years ago.

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 by: David N. Williams - Wed, 1 Feb 2023 19:44 UTC

On 2/1/23 2:30 PM, jfh wrote:
> On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 12:27:04 AM UTC+13, peter wrote:
>> I am reviewing the installation instructions at
>> http://latex.silmaril.ie/formattinginformation/instsw.html
>>
>> • Is it still really necessary nowadays to give a screen-by-screen,
>> click-by-click description of what to do?
>>
>> • Can it be assumed that even the beginner is able to install TL
>> without prompts?
>>
>> I do make it a condition of the rest of the document that you know how
>> to use your computer
>> (http://latex.silmaril.ie/formattinginformation/introduction.html#skills)
>> but should this apply to installation as well?
>>
>> If there are still people out there who need this level of hand-holding,
>> I'm very happy to go through it and re-shoot the screens, except that I
>> don't have access to any Windows systems, let alone modern ones. I do
>> have a spare desktop PC with a 1024×768 screen but I'd need to obtain
>> Windows first because currently its running Linux.
>>
>> All suggestions welcome
>>
>> Peter
> I am one of the people who value such instructions even though I'm not a beginner: I wrote my first program nearly 60 years ago.

Me, too, on both counts. I value such instructions, and I'm not a
beginner, having written my first program more than 65 years ago.

-- David W.

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From: peter@silmaril.ie (Peter Flynn)
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 by: Peter Flynn - Thu, 2 Feb 2023 00:21 UTC

On 01/02/2023 19:44, David N. Williams wrote:
> On 2/1/23 2:30 PM, jfh wrote:
>> On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 12:27:04 AM UTC+13, peter wrote:
>>> I am reviewing the installation instructions at
>>> http://latex.silmaril.ie/formattinginformation/instsw.html
>>>
>>> • Is it still really necessary nowadays to give a screen-by-screen,
>>> click-by-click description of what to do?
>>>
>>> • Can it be assumed that even the beginner is able to install TL
>>> without prompts?
>>>
>>> I do make it a condition of the rest of the document that you know how
>>> to use your computer
>>> (http://latex.silmaril.ie/formattinginformation/introduction.html#skills)
>>> but should this apply to installation as well?
>>>
>>> If there are still people out there who need this level of hand-holding,
>>> I'm very happy to go through it and re-shoot the screens, except that I
>>> don't have access to any Windows systems, let alone modern ones. I do
>>> have a spare desktop PC with a 1024×768 screen but I'd need to obtain
>>> Windows first because currently its running Linux.
>>>
>>> All suggestions welcome
>>>
>>> Peter
>> I am one of the people who value such instructions even though I'm not
>> a beginner: I wrote my first program nearly 60 years ago.
>
> Me, too, on both counts.  I value such instructions, and I'm not a
> beginner, having written my first program more than 65 years ago.

Thank you both. I shall try to reproduce them, although I wrote my first
program a mere 50 years ago.

Peter

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