[texhax] MacTeX Extras

[Philip Taylor]

Richard Koch wrote:
> Philip Taylor, who has a sharp tongue, looked just at the MacTeXtras page on the site and discovered a missing word. The first sentence is supposed to read
>
> "The complete MacTeX Distribution is part of the TeX Collection produced by the TeX User Groups,
> WHICH also contains additional Front Ends, Spell Checkers, Documentation, and Showcase items."

Philip Taylor, who, compared to some well-known contributors to TeXhax, 
tends to be extremely moderate and tolerant  in his wording, followed 
the link kindly provided by Herbert Voss :

> See
> http://tug.org/mactex/mactextras.html

and read :

> The complete *MacTeX Distribution* 
> <http://tug.org/mactex/mactextras/GettingMacTeX2017Information.rtf> is 
> part of the *TeX Collection* <http://www.tug.org/texcollection/> 
> produced by the TeX User Groups, also contains additional /Front 
> Ends/, /Spell Checkers/, /Documentation/, and /Showcase/ items. This 
> extra material can be obtained by downloading *MacTextras.zip* from 
> the following multiplexer site: 

Not having Richard's prescience, he was blissfully unaware that the word 
WHICH had been omitted, and therefore read it as :

> The complete *MacTeX Distribution* 
> <http://tug.org/mactex/mactextras/GettingMacTeX2017Information.rtf> 
> [...] also contains additional /Front Ends/, /Spell Checkers/, 
> /Documentation/, and /Showcase/ items. This extra material can be 
> obtained by downloading *MacTextras.zip* from the following 
> multiplexer site: 

He was therefore completely confused as to why one might need to 
download *MacTextras.zip* if one has already installed the complete 
*MacTeX Distribution.* 
<http://tug.org/mactex/mactextras/GettingMacTeX2017Information.rtf>

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