tinytex

A lightweight, cross-platform, portable, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live (by rstudio)

Tinytex Alternatives

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a better tinytex alternative or higher similarity.

tinytex reviews and mentions

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  • Running Quarto Markdown in Docker
    4 projects | dev.to | 23 Dec 2023
    # Based on https://github.com/analythium/quarto-docker-examples/blob/main/Dockerfile.base # Version number of Quarto to download and use ARG QUARTO_VERSION="1.4.529" ARG OS_USERNAME=quarto ARG UID=1000 ARG GID=1000 FROM eddelbuettel/r2u:20.04 # librsvg2-bin is to allow SVG conversion when rendering a PDF file # (will install the rsvg-view binary) RUN set -e -x && \ apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ pandoc \ pandoc-citeproc \ curl \ gdebi-core \ librsvg2-bin \ python3.8 python3-pip \ && apt-get clean \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* RUN set -e -x && \ install.r shiny jsonlite ggplot2 htmltools remotes renv knitr rmarkdown quarto # Download and install Quarto ARG QUARTO_VERSION RUN set -e -x && \ curl -o quarto-linux-amd64.deb -L https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/download/v${QUARTO_VERSION}/quarto-${QUARTO_VERSION}-linux-amd64.deb \ && gdebi --non-interactive quarto-linux-amd64.deb \ && rm -f quarto-linux-amd64.deb # Should be done for the user; won't work if done for root # (quarto will say that "tinytex is not installed") ARG OS_USERNAME ARG UID ARG GID RUN set -e -x && \ groupadd -g $GID -o "${OS_USERNAME}" && \ useradd -m -u $UID -g $GID -o -s /bin/bash "${OS_USERNAME}" USER "${OS_USERNAME}" # Install tools like tinytex to allow conversion to PDF RUN set -e -x && \ quarto install tool tinytex --update-path RUN set -e -x && \ printf "\e[0;105m%s\e[0;0m\n" "Run tlmgr update" \ && ~/.TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr update --self --all && \ ~/.TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-linux/fmtutil-sys --all # See https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex/issues/426 for explanation RUN set -e -x && \ printf "\e[0;105m%s\e[0;0m\n" "Run tlmgr install for a few tinyText packages (needed for PDF conversion)" \ && ~/.TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr install fvextra footnotebackref pagecolor sourcesanspro sourcecodepro titling USER root RUN set -e -x && \ mkdir -p /input USER "${OS_USERNAME}" WORKDIR /
  • TinyTeX – lightweight, cross-platform, portable, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Aug 2022
  • Any LaTeX software on osx that won't need installing and works with XeLaTeX?
    1 project | /r/LaTeX | 22 Jul 2022
    Some of the others have mentioned other installs, but they can pull down a lot of packages which might not be ideal if it's not your PC (even the TexLive install is quite chonky.) I'd personally recommend: TinyTex.
  • Knitting an Rmd file to PDF using TinyTex in RStudio Not Working
    2 projects | /r/RStudio | 5 Jul 2022
    See https://yihui.org/tinytex
  • Error in knitting RMD file as PDF, Can anyone help me fix this as I want to knit rmd file to pdf
    1 project | /r/RStudio | 24 Feb 2022
    that will install a lightweight latex distribution ready to render your rmarkdown documents. just restart rstudio and give a try after this process (for more stuff, see https://yihui.org/tinytex/ )
  • Issue installing LaTex on Mac
    1 project | /r/Rlanguage | 2 Feb 2022
    Have you tried the things mentioned at the link? https://github.com/yihui/tinytex/issues/24
  • Installed MacTeX - but why is it almost 5GB in size?
    2 projects | /r/LaTeX | 24 Jul 2021
    There is the tinyTeX distribution which was designed for use with R, but can be used on its own as well. It's a subsetted version of TeX live and available from https://yihui.org/tinytex/
  • Install only makeglossaries in Ubuntu
    1 project | /r/LaTeX | 28 May 2021
    If you'd like to install only a small subset of packages, there are projects like TinyTeX.
  • Install latex with Tinytex
    1 project | dev.to | 9 May 2021
    Tinytex is a relative new Latex distribution by Yihui Xie from the R community. The distribution is tiny, less than 100mb, which is a great alternative to TexLive and MikTex for basic users.
  • Can not wrap "luajithbtex"
    1 project | /r/NixOS | 26 Dec 2020
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rstudio/tinytex is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of tinytex is R.


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