Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream release, TeX
Live 2021.
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/
And see
http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#news
for a list of changes since TeX Live 2020.
The TeX Live executables and supporting libraries are contained in the following
Cygwin packages:
* texlive-20210325-1
* libkpathsea6-20210325-1
* libkpathsea-devel-20210325-1
libkpathsea is a TeX file and path search library.
* libptexenc1-20210325-1
* libptexenc-devel-20210325-1
libptexenc is a TeX Unicode encoding library.
* libsync2-20210325-1
* libsync-devel-20210325-1
libsync is a TeX source/output synchronization library.
* libtexlua53_5-20210325-1
* libtexlua53-devel-20210325-1
libtexlua53 is a TeX lua scripting library.
* libtexluajit2-20210325-1
* libtexluajit-devel-20210325-1
libtexluajit is a TeX Just-In-Time lua compiler library.
* asymptote-2.70-1
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 some of the collections.
* texlive-collection-basic-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-basic-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-bibtexextra-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-bibtexextra-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-binextra-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-binextra-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-context-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-context-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-fontsextra-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-fontsextra-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-fontutils-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-fontutils-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-formatsextra-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-games-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-humanities-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-humanities-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langarabic-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langchinese-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langcjk-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langcyrillic-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langczechslovak-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langenglish-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langeuropean-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langfrench-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langgerman-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langgreek-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langitalian-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langjapanese-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langkorean-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langother-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langpolish-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langportuguese-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-langspanish-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-latex-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-latex-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-latexextra-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-latexextra-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-latexrecommended-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-latexrecommended-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-luatex-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-luatex-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-mathscience-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-mathscience-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-metapost-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-metapost-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-music-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-music-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-pictures-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-pictures-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-plaingeneric-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-plaingeneric-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-pstricks-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-pstricks-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-publishers-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-publishers-doc-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-xetex-20210325-1
* texlive-collection-xetex-doc-20210325-1
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-context,
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 Brown
Cygwin's TeX Live maintainer
