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TeX Live 2026 is available for download now

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Re: TeX Live 2026 is available for download now

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Post by alxhslm »

xvilka wrote: post #4

I wonder what's the status of LaTeX 3[1][2]. Also, it would be nice to have an automation in the style of Tectonic[3][4] (which looks like a dead project itself) out of the box. [1] https://www.latex-project.org/latex3/ [2] https://github.com/latex3/latex3 [3] http://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/ [4] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/

Seems like an admirable project but they’re building on creaky foundations. Even the way TexLive is released feels like something from academia than a real piece of software.

Re: TeX Live 2026 is available for download now

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Post by dngray »

deep1283 wrote: post #2

If you’re installing this on a fresh machine, the network installer is usually the smoother option. The full ISO is great if you’re setting up multiple systems or need an offline install, but for most people the net install saves some headaches.

The last time I did this I used the isolandoftex docker image and set it up with DevContainers in vscode https://eccentric.dk/2025/08/25/using-texlive-with-dev-conta...

Re: TeX Live 2026 is available for download now

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Post by anotherpaul »

__mharrison__ wrote: post #3

Cool. I've moved on to typst and hope to never touch latex again in my lifetime...

I've also started using typst for some projects. I am slowly getting used to the syntax. But it's a process for me. I also still have latex projects/docs

So happy to see new texlive as well

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Post by KeplerBoy »

theanonymousone wrote: post #15

A WASM version of (La)TeX plus a decent IDE would be amazing. I'm wondering if such a thing exists.

SwiftLatex, TexLyre and StellarLatex seem to be exactly this. Apparently this is something a lot of people want to see in the world, awesome stuff. I wonder what's the performance like between native XeLaTex and these wasm version and if it will be Overleaf's demise if these solutions can be easily self-hosted by organizations without worrying about the server getting bogged down by compile jobs.

https://www.swiftlatex.com/

https://arxtect.github.io/StellarLatexLanding

https://texlyre.github.io/

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Post by pjmlp »

__mharrison__ wrote: post #3

Cool. I've moved on to typst and hope to never touch latex again in my lifetime...

After delivering my thesis in LaTeX, I never bothered with it again, even at CERN back in 2003 most folks were using a mixture of Word and FrameMaker, with templates to have a TeX like paper output.

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Post by noosphr »

alxhslm wrote: post #11
xvilka wrote: post #4

I wonder what's the status of LaTeX 3[1][2]. Also, it would be nice to have an automation in the style of Tectonic[3][4] (which looks like a dead project itself) out of the box. [1] https://www.latex-project.org/latex3/ [2] https://github.com/latex3/latex3 [3] http://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/ [4] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/

Seems like an admirable project but they’re building on creaky foundations. Even the way TexLive is released feels like something from academia than a real piece of software.

Yes, unlike real software it has backward compatibility to the 80s.

Re: TeX Live 2026 is available for download now

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Post by thangalin »

ConTeXt often goes unmentioned in TeX threads.

https://wiki.contextgarden.net/

It's a monolithic kernel with a relatively sane collection of "setup" macros that, by and large, can accomplish much of what LaTeX and its packages can do.

If you're curious about how to build TeX from scratch, have a look at my TeX.SE answer:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/576314/2148

I'd imagine making a FOSS port in Rust that has non-cryptic error messages wouldn't be a multi-year project using modern GPTs.

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