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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.
Sharelatex merged with (was bought by?) Overleaf a while ago. Now we're just down to using Overleaf v2.
https://github.com/ProdriveTechnologies/bazel-latex
These are rules for building LaTeX documents using the Bazel build system. What's pretty nifty is that these download (parts of) TeXLive automatically, meaning that you don't even need to install TeXLive in your home directory. Instead, it's part of your project, meaning that everyone working on it will use exactly the same version of TeXLive.
> COPYRIGHT HOLDER: Yihui Xie and RStudio, Inc.
what license is this? Is this software proprietary?
I have some projects where the continuous-integration-testing with Travis requires a tex installation. More than 50% of the entire test run is spent installing texlive-full (since Travis doesn't seem interested in including latex in their standard environment). Maybe TinyTeX will be able to speed this up?
It takes ~5 minutes on travis when I only install what I need.
https://github.com/MaxNoe/texlive-batch-installation/blob/ma...
The other day I saw a resume written in LaTeX. Sorry, that's the height of pretension.
Why? LaTeX is good at what it does, and there are predefined templates for high quality resumes in various layouts (for example see [1] and [2]). I've written more using LaTeX than Word, so it's easier for me (and others I presume) to produce good results for out of the ordinary documents, like a resume, in LaTeX. [1] https://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/ [2] https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/cv
TeX 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.
The biggest problem that most of the publishers still do not accept LaTeX submissions. Especially if you want to publish a book.
> YEAR: 2017-2018 > COPYRIGHT HOLDER: Yihui Xie and RStudio, Inc. what license is this? Is this software proprietary?
One can install it very simple via
$ brew cask install basictex
And it doesn't take ages to download and install like other TeX-Distributions.
see also https://bilalakil.me/getting-started-and-productive-with-lat...