In my experience, TeX needs some packaging/distribution love. Also in my experience, overleaf/sharelatex (web based) blows all of the local installation approaches out of the water. Especially with respect to collaboration with coauthors of your documents.
TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
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Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#12I grew irritated with texlive and instead just opted to use https://overleaf.com for my LaTeX documents
Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#13I grew irritated with texlive and instead just opted to use https://overleaf.com for my LaTeX documents
Overleaf makes you pay for the history feature, and for more than one collaborator. Not good for long term collaborative papers.
Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#14Yihui Xie has been an incredible boon for the R & Pandoc ecosystems. Turning your R code into pdf or html is so easy I'm surprised language authors aren't scrambling to copy the feature.
Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#15TeX people are unsung heroes to me and about as close to magic as software can get.
It's like an ancient secret order that is keeping the world safe from word-processors.
I have no idea of what they do, or how they do it, but I can't argue with the world-class results.
Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#16Some time ago I was trying to include more than one bibliography in a document. After a day or so trying to make it work with the MacTex installation, I checked if it would work with ShareLatex. Worked at the first try, changing nothing in my files. From then, I never looked back.
I only back up the ShareLatex projects in my Dropbox if for whatever reason I need offline access later. Has worked well so far.
Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I can add the help of latexmk to thingsi should read more. :)
Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I think there is almost a rite of passage for people getting into latex to create their own build tools. :)
Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#19On 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.
Have you tried LuaTeX?
If you use plain TeX (without requiring extra LaTeX files), you should only need the binary.
LuaTeX is the successor of pdfTeX. Much improved. And it can use your local .ttf/.otf/... font files out of the box.
The install is very minimalistic and should not require more than downloading a binary and maybe a config file.
http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/bin/luatex/linux-6...
Re: TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
#20I think various flavors of Markdown have largely superseded TeX, at least for stylistic minimalists. I'm not saying that TeX is obsolete, but for the majority of use cases, Markdown is faster and less troublesome. Modernity always triumphs.