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Re:TeX Live 2014 by raspas42 on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @05:36PM (#7913007)
Does anyone know why TeX Live is so huge compared to other typesetting programs & office suites?

It is even bigger than all of the Web browsers, which can perform all the tasks as Tex and many other once.

Re:TeX Live 2014 by taejo on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @05:53PM (#7913122)
Thousands of bibliography styles, document styles, fonts in multiple formats, as well as basically every macro package ever written. And it's actually several typesetting programs: TeX, LaTeX, PdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX...
Re:TeX Live 2014 by Argorak on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @07:06PM (#7913473)
I wrote down a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264582

Web browsers cannot perform all tasks of TeX, starting with page breaks.

Re:TeX Live 2014 by sjtrny on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @06:11PM (#7913225)
I'm not sure you grasp what Tex Live is.