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		einhverfr on Nov 22, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPa... LaTeX can't be 4GB. I think it is being confused with TexLive? You don't need all of TexLive to make LaTeX documents....

kenjackson on Nov 22, 2011 | [–]

There certainly must exist some reasonable snapshot that is less than 4GB as I ran Tex on a computer with less than a 1GB HD in the distant past -- and it didn't consume most of the HD at the time.

Gigablah on Nov 22, 2011 | [–]

Yeah, my installation of Office:mac is actually smaller than that.

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