tectonic
A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive. (by tectonic-typesetting)
tectonic
Experimental Oxidization of Tectonic the TeX/LaTeX engine. (by crlf0710)
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| tectonic | tectonic | |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 3 | |
| 3,750 | 282 | |
| 2.6% | - | |
| 9.2 | 0.0 | |
| 10 days ago | about 3 years ago | |
| C | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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Posts with mentions or reviews of tectonic.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-29.
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I rewrote my CV in Typst and I'll never look back
You may want to try https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic, which downloads files from TeXLive on-demand.
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bard 2.0
v2 has improved TeX engine lookup, improved PDF template look&feel, proper support for MS Windows (where it comes integrated with the Tectonic engine) and a few more new features.
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[Media] Version 0.3 of Inlyne - An interactive markdown renderer written entirely in Rust
There's https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic but I think the issue with that idea is that sure, you can re-implement TeX (it's sufficiently simple) in Rust and then run LaTeX packages on top of it, but then you're back to LaTeX and all its weirdness so you haven't really gained anything compared to LaTeX itself.
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Arch for science
In terms of TeX, I would recommend taking a look at tectonic, a self-contained TeX distribution that auto-installs packages you need when you need them, and “just works” when you call the binary to compile… Because screw messing around with package managers, CTAN and XeTeX. I’ve been using it for around a year and it’s so much easier than any other TeX distribution.
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Porting Python reportlab code to Rust
For example, you can have your main application in something like Deno/Node/python that acts as a server, and then delegate the actual pdf generation to tectonic (https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic) or Typst https://typst.app/blog/2023/beta-oss-launch/
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Another rewrite in rust: Pydantic
tectonic: https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
- \begin{mess}
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UnTeX - Parsing and formatting TeX documents with Rust - Looking for help
How does it compare with Tectonic?
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Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk (May, 2022)
It's sad that Tectonic conversion to Rust[1] was never finished. For now it's just a wrapper around C and C++ code. By far, it was the most promising thing in this distribution.
[1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459
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LaTex alternative/replacement written in Rust?
The only thing I've seen is https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic but that's an actual re-implementation of TeX Rust.
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Posts with mentions or reviews of tectonic.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-27.
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Finl Is Not LaTeX
They have a forum but now discussion switch to GitHub Discussions[1]. The issue about oxidizing everything is here[2]. If you want to help the project there is a number of issues[3] that can be done, in particular syncronization with the Tectonic mainline and XeTeX code update[4]
[1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/766
[2] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459
[3] https://github.com/crlf0710/tectonic/issues
[4] https://github.com/crlf0710/tectonic/issues/299
- Learnlatex.org: A place to learn LaTeX online
What are some alternatives?
When comparing tectonic and tectonic you can also consider the following projects:
miktex - the MiKTeX source code
pandoc - Universal markup converter
texlab - An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX
SATySFi - A statically-typed, functional typesetting system
tex-rs - A port of TeX82 to Rust. (WIP)
Oberon - Oberon parser, code model & browser, compiler and IDE with debugger
patoline - Patoline typesetting system
arara
ktikz - KtikZ provides a nice user interface for making pictures using TikZ.
rpm-ostree - ⚛📦 Hybrid image/package system with atomic upgrades and package layering
devel - Documentations and Issues for Developers