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Marc Mengel <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 2 Jun 2004 10:03:39 -0500
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>>It may be that there are instances when one would want tex installed and
>>not latex, but I would expect this to be the exception rather than the
>>rule.

I seem to recall some bizarre hidden dependency where various packages wanted
the AFM files (Adobe Font Metrics) from tex-land; so it may just be there to
provide font metrics...

Marc

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