Re:Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
by pinpeliponni on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @10:49AM
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I love *tex. You want to install software, it pulls in half of the galaxy as dependencies. The equivalent of black holes in software.
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Re:Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
by laichzeit0 on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @12:30PM
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So, exactly like npm packages then?
Re:Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
by taeric on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @01:01PM
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Having just cursed whatever bloody build system we now have for a simple 3 page web app that seems to cache off half of the bloody internet, I am curious on the complaint leveled against TeX. Especially since the vanilla TeX has very little dependencies and you have to explicitly install every style that has ever been created. :)