From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-announce <cygwin-announce@cygwin.com>
Subject: TeX Live 2024
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:51:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec75ded5-d966-43c0-b797-975098489cfb@cornell.edu> (raw)
Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream
release, TeX Live 2024.
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/
See
http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#news
for a list of changes since TeX Live 2023, and see
https://tug.org/texlive/bugs.html
for a list of known issues in TeX Live 2024.
The TeX Live executables and supporting libraries are contained in the
following Cygwin packages:
* texlive-20240312-1
* libkpathsea6-20240312-1
* libkpathsea-devel-20240312-1
libkpathsea is a TeX file and path search library.
* libptexenc1-20240312-1
* libptexenc-devel-20240312-1
libptexenc is a TeX Unicode encoding library.
* libsync2-20240312-1
* libsync-devel-20240312-1
libsync is a TeX source/output synchronization library.
* libtexlua53_5-20240312-1
* libtexlua53-devel-20240312-1
libtexlua53 is a TeX lua scripting library.
* libtexluajit2-20240312-1
* libtexluajit-devel-20240312-1
libtexluajit is a TeX Just-In-Time lua compiler library.
* asymptote-2.88-1
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
many of the collections.
* texlive-collection-basic-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-basic-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-bibtexextra-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-bibtexextra-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-binextra-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-binextra-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-context-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-context-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-fontsextra-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-fontsextra-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-fontutils-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-fontutils-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-formatsextra-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-games-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-humanities-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-humanities-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langarabic-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langchinese-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langcjk-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langcyrillic-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langczechslovak-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langenglish-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langeuropean-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langfrench-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langgerman-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langgreek-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langitalian-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langjapanese-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langkorean-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langother-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langpolish-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langportuguese-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-langspanish-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-latex-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-latex-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-latexextra-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-latexextra-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-latexrecommended-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-latexrecommended-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-luatex-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-luatex-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-mathscience-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-mathscience-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-metapost-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-metapost-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-music-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-music-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-pictures-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-pictures-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-plaingeneric-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-plaingeneric-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-pstricks-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-pstricks-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-publishers-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-publishers-doc-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-xetex-20240312-1
* texlive-collection-xetex-doc-20240312-1
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-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
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