TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
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Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#2My favorite part about this article is the extra wide space that follows their apostrophe character. It really gives an air of legitimacy to their LaTeX distribution...
Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#3On a tangential note, I wish there were a single-executable "distribution" of Plain TeX that would simply "do one thing well" - convert a TeX source to more or less nicely typeset PDF.
Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#4My favorite part about this article is the extra wide space that follows their apostrophe character. It really gives an air of legitimacy to their LaTeX distribution...
Apostrophe?
Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
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Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#6On a tangential note, I wish there were a single-executable "distribution" of Plain TeX that would simply "do one thing well" - convert a TeX source to more or less nicely typeset PDF.
I've found more than several tools that all basically complete this task. latexmk -pdf Foo.tex, being the most common one that I can remember.
It is somewhat annoying that it will create so many temp files. I guess. I've gotten over it pretty heavily. (I actually regret not looking at the log file more often. I feel I should know how to read most of that.)
Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#7> If you create a tarball of TinyTeX on macOS or Ubuntu, it will be only 50MB
This is excellent and has accelerated my long-term dream: an up-to-date TeX distribution that can live in my home directory in an lz4 (hc) squashfs archive (72M) and be mounted on an as-needed basis.
UPDATE: As I had hoped, TinyTeX works in an lz4 squashfs. On my system it's actually a tiny bit faster under squashfs than from my ext4 home partition.
Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#8On a tangential note, I wish there were a single-executable "distribution" of Plain TeX that would simply "do one thing well" - convert a TeX source to more or less nicely typeset PDF.
I've found more than several tools that all basically complete this task. latexmk -pdf Foo.tex, being the most common one that I can remember. It is somewhat annoying that it will create so many temp files. I guess. I've gotten over it pretty heavily. (I actually regret not looking at the log file more often. I feel I should know how to read most of that.)
LaTeXTools in Sublime et al. will erase the temp files with a shortcut, plus you can add more extensions to clean in case you use packages that add more temp files.
Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#9On a tangential note, I wish there were a single-executable "distribution" of Plain TeX that would simply "do one thing well" - convert a TeX source to more or less nicely typeset PDF.
I've found more than several tools that all basically complete this task. latexmk -pdf Foo.tex, being the most common one that I can remember. It is somewhat annoying that it will create so many temp files. I guess. I've gotten over it pretty heavily. (I actually regret not looking at the log file more often. I feel I should know how to read most of that.)
Try `latexmk -c` to remove all the temp files.
Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#10To be honest, when I am using LaTeX, I just want to write without any interruption. That's why I install texlive-full. Since I am (almost) guaranteed that whatever I encountered, I would be able to do it.
Dealing with complexity of LaTeX and CPAN is not something I really want to do, especially when I am meeting (paper submission) deadline.