TeX Live, Tiny TeX, AWS Lambda and reworking TeX for modern times

[Manfred Lotz]

On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 10:57:08 +0100
Manfred Lotz <manfred at dante.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 00:35:55 +0100
> Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > what is needed is not just TinyTeX but removal of TeX from
> > dependences in R. What I need is to process automatically R code on
> > a tiny computer with a very small disk space and never use TeX on
> > it. Unfortunatelly R installation fails because it tries to install
> > a huge TeX distro. Thus unless the R maintainers do not change
> > their minds, TinyTeX will not help here.
> >   
> 
> There is tectonic which is quite interesting and worked ok for me when
> testing it with some of my (admittedly not very complicated)
> documents. It installs needed packages from texlive automatically
> during compile and it doesn't need a texlive locally. On my system,
> Fedora 33, tectonic places downloaded stuff in ~/.cache/Tectonic .
> 
> 
> Tectonic is a modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine,
> powered by XeTeX and TeXLive. 
> 
> https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/e

As Phil discovered, there was a typo.

 https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/


> https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
> 
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