tectonic, anyone?

[Neal Becker]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 1:17 PM Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> Neal Becker said on Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:12:19 -0400
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> >Anyone played with tectonic?  Think this might be helpful to use with
> >LyX?
> >
> >https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/index.html
> ...
> * automatically downloads support files so you don't need a full LaTeX
>   installation.
>         - I already have a full LaTeX installation. Today's hard disks
>           are big enough that you can just tell CTAN to give you
>           everything. I'm a huge fan of using CTAN rather than your
>           distribution's LaTeX package.
>

I have sometimes installed all packages from Fedora TexLive.  Downside is
there are 1000s of packages, and so it really slows down software updates.
I guess the thing I thought was interesting was automatic download on
demand.

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