TeX Live 2021

TeX Live 2021

[Ken Brown]

Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream release, TeX 
Live 2021.

TeX Live provides a comprehensive, cross-platform TeX system.  It includes all 
the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free 
software, including support for many languages around the world.  For more 
information, see

   http://www.tug.org/texlive/

And see

   http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#news

for a list of changes since TeX Live 2020.

The TeX Live executables and supporting libraries are contained in the following 
Cygwin packages:

* texlive-20210325-1

* libkpathsea6-20210325-1
* libkpathsea-devel-20210325-1

libkpathsea is a TeX file and path search library.

* libptexenc1-20210325-1
* libptexenc-devel-20210325-1

libptexenc is a TeX Unicode encoding library.

* libsync2-20210325-1
* libsync-devel-20210325-1

libsync is a TeX source/output synchronization library.

* libtexlua53_5-20210325-1
* libtexlua53-devel-20210325-1

libtexlua53 is a TeX lua scripting library.

* libtexluajit2-20210325-1
* libtexluajit-devel-20210325-1

libtexluajit is a TeX Just-In-Time lua compiler library.

* asymptote-2.70-1

Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical 
drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax.  Asymptote 
provides for figures the same high-quality typesetting that LaTeX does for 
scientific text.

In addition, upstream TeX Live provides thousands of "packages", grouped into 
"collections".  There is a Cygwin package for each upstream collection; there 
are also Cygwin packages containing documentation for some of the collections.

* texlive-collection-basic-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-basic-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-bibtexextra-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-bibtexextra-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-binextra-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-binextra-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-context-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-context-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-fontsextra-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-fontsextra-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-fontutils-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-fontutils-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-formatsextra-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-games-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-humanities-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-humanities-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langarabic-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langchinese-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langcjk-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langcyrillic-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langczechslovak-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langenglish-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langeuropean-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langfrench-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langgerman-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langgreek-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langitalian-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langjapanese-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langkorean-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langother-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langpolish-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langportuguese-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langspanish-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-latex-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-latex-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-latexextra-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-latexextra-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-latexrecommended-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-latexrecommended-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-luatex-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-luatex-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-mathscience-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-mathscience-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-metapost-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-metapost-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-music-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-music-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-pictures-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-pictures-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-plaingeneric-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-plaingeneric-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-pstricks-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-pstricks-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-publishers-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-publishers-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-xetex-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-xetex-doc-20210325-1

Recommendations
===============
Most people do not need the full TeX Live installation, which is huge and can 
take a long time to install.  If you're not sure what you need, here are some 
possible ways to start:

Minimal: Install texlive and its dependencies.  This provides plain TeX but not 
LaTeX.

Basic: Install texlive-collection-latex and its dependencies.  This is a minimal 
installation with LaTeX.

Small: Install texlive-collection-latexrecommended and its dependencies.  This 
provides the most commonly used non-graphics LaTeX packages.  Install 
texlive-collection-pictures if you want the standard graphics packages too.

Medium: Install texlive-collection-binextra, texlive-collection-context, 
texlive-collection-fontsrecommended, texlive-collection-fontutils, 
texlive-collection-latexrecommended, texlive-collection-luatex, 
texlive-collection-mathscience, texlive-collection-metapost, 
texlive-collection-plaingeneric, and texlive-collection-xetex.

Fontconfig
==========
There is a script /usr/bin/texlive-enable-fontconfig that you can run if you 
want the fonts distributed with TeX Live to be available to applications that 
rely on fontconfig.  See /usr/share/doc/texlive/README.Cygwin for more details. 
(The script can take a few minutes to run, so be patient.)

tlmgr
=====
texlive-collection-basic includes a restricted version of the tlmgr (TeX Live 
Manager) utility.  See /usr/share/doc/texlive-collection-basic/README.Cygwin for 
more details.

Ken Brown
Cygwin's TeX Live maintainer