tectonic, anyone?

[Pavel Sanda]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 04:12:19PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> Anyone played with tectonic?  Think this might be helpful to use with LyX?
> 
> https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/index.html

Never used that, and their web is very vague. On first sight it seems that
1) their preffered engine seems to be XeTeX, not maintained anymore
2) they claim not to clutter working directory, you already have that
   if you use lyx - in the sense that all temps are saved separately from
   .lyx files.
3) they claim to download latex packages on demand instead of full
   texlive install. You can get that with MikTeX automatically or
   (untested) you might get that with texlive via texliveonfly.

As such I do not see much of addon value for lyx.
Pavel