Re:Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
by domoritz on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @03:33AM
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So it's like latexmk + lazy downloading? How does it compare against latexmk?
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Re:Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
by pkgwilliams on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @08:07AM
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I can't speak for latexmk, but Tectonic has, if I may say so myself, some quite sophisticated logic for managing reruns and figuring out which intermediate files can't be written to disk.
That being said, I wouldn't say that the `latexmk`-type functionality is the thing that is going to make Tectonic unique. Hopefully that will be the HTML output, but I have to implement that first ...