no, it's not TeX. if you write papers and you need to use given templates, then you're stuck with LaTeX, of course. for me, moving away from LaTeX was liberating (from hacking around and being an expert i didn't want to be).
i found some time ago a "tinytex" TAR that was pretty much standalone; unfortunately only for X86 Linux. > On 5. Nov 2026, at 10:50 AM, Roderick <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am Do., 5. Nov. 2026 um 05:56 Uhr schrieb nufspmii <[email protected]>: > >> If you search for a minimal TeX, then I suggest that you look into Typst. > > (1) Typst ist not TeX. > (2) TeX is minimal, very minimal, but not the "distributions". > (3) My problem is not TeX, my problem is the dependency on bloated > distributions. > > I while ago, I was able to have a working desktop without texlive and > cups packages, > today it seems impossible. They appear as dependency where they clearly are > not > necessary. > > --- > > Carson Chittom <carson () chittom ! family> wrote: > >> both Firefox and Emacs are perfectly serviceable PDF readers. > > Thanks for reminding me. I also must install both, although bloated, > and also chrome(ium), the now "standard browser" in the world. > > Firefox renders very good PDF, but I have the experience that it does not > render > some documents. There is now way that having viewers with different rendering > engines. I installed mupdf. I have poppler because I need pdf separate > and pdfunite, > but no viewer with it, and I do not know if it is 100% equivalent to > xpdf. What wonders > me is how bloated is the xpdf package. > > About emacs, I did not know that it renders pdf, I must see what > engine it has, and > if it does it in the way how I build it for avoiding bloat: > > configure --prefix=/dir --without-all --with-x-toolkit=no > > --- > > <sr () strahinja ! org> wrote: > >> Likely a bug in pkg_info > > I had also troubles finding sqlite3 and its library for tcl ... >
