texlive-batch-installation
tectonic
| texlive-batch-installation | tectonic | |
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| 1 | 22 | |
| 5 | 3,776 | |
| - | 1.7% | |
| 5.9 | 9.1 | |
| 19 days ago | 16 days ago | |
| Python | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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texlive-batch-installation
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Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk (May, 2022)
The Problem is that TeXLive still defaults to doing a full install.
A full install means installing ~4000 packages, including their source files (tens of thousands of tex files) and built documentation (thousands of PDF files) and hundreds of free fonts (otfs, ttfs, texs own format).
This is huge (>7GB, not just the 5 GB claimed here).
However, you don't need 99 % of this for any given document.
Not installing the source files and documentation PDFs will alone reduce the size by roughly half.
Only installing the packages you really need from a minimal installation gives you a few hundred megabytes at most for even complex documents.
It's a bit annoying to get the list of packages needed though, since there is not really any working dependency management.
I wrote a python wrapper around the tex live installer [1] to make this easy for CI jobs, see e.g. [2].
On a side note: I'd recommend luatex over xetex.
- [1] https://github.com/maxnoe/texlive-batch-installation/
- [2] https://github.com/pep-dortmund/toolbox-workshop/blob/8b00f0...
tectonic
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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
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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.
What are some alternatives?
toolbox-workshop - Materialien zum PeP et al. Toolbox-Workshop
miktex - the MiKTeX source code
goawk - A POSIX-compliant AWK interpreter written in Go, with CSV support
texlab - An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX
regex - An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs.
tex-rs - A port of TeX82 to Rust. (WIP)
awk - One true awk
Oberon - Oberon parser, code model & browser, compiler and IDE with debugger
arara
rpm-ostree - ⚛📦 Hybrid image/package system with atomic upgrades and package layering
github-orgmode-tests - This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files
mdbook-pdf - A backend for mdBook written in Rust for generating PDF based on headless chrome and Chrome DevTools Protocol. (用 Rust 编写的 mdBook 后端，基于headless chrome和Chrome开发工具协议生成PDF)