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Hundreds of megabytes would be a considerable improvement for me. I think my last installation of LaTeX and the few packages I depended on was around two gigaby

Hundreds of megabytes would be a considerable improvement for me. I think my last installation of LaTeX and the few packages I depended on was around two gigabytes.

shuckles 6y ago
I think you are confusing RAM with storage.
- rimunroe 6y ago
  I suppose they could have meant that, but I think it's pretty reasonable to interpret that as having meant size on disk
  - shuckles 6y ago
    You’re right. The original post was not clear.
ajmurmann 6y ago
And it's already slow and needs to run multiple times to generate a table of contents and bibtex Edit: phone autocomplete typo
- godelski 6y ago
  Generally I use a Makefile that looks like this ``` SRC :=$(wildcard .tex .bib) Paper.pdf: $(SRC) pdflatex Paper bibtex Paper.aux pdflatex Paper pdflatex Paper short: $(SRC) pdflatex Paper clean: rm -f .glo .log .dvi .gls .toc .aux .ist .out .glg .pdf .bbl .blg .lof .brf *.sta .PHONY: clean ``` I hate that you have to run things multiple times to get references right. Really it should just be `pdflatex Paper` and you should be done. Every once in awhile I just get references that don't want to stick. Same with images. [ht!] and floatbarriers only go so far. As much as tikz is a pain (and beautiful), I'd definitely invest more time into making image placement and references easier for the average user. EDIT: code has a lot of wildcards before every extension but I'm not sure how to escape those on HN
  - lokedhs 6y ago
    Isn't this what latexmk does for you? I don't use things like bibtext so I don't know how it handles that, but latexmk works perfectly for normal use cases, and ensures that you never have to run it more times than you need to.
    - godelski 6y ago
      I didn't know about this before so I can't answer, but it looks like yes. Thanks!
ploxiln 6y ago
I've enjoyed using TinyTex, which is sort of the Arch Linux of TeX distributions: https://yihui.org/tinytex/ https://yihui.org/tinytex/

Hundreds of megabytes would be a considerable improvement for me. I think my last installation of LaTeX and the few packages I depended on was around two gigabytes.

shuckles 6y ago

I think you are confusing RAM with storage.

rimunroe 6y ago
I suppose they could have meant that, but I think it's pretty reasonable to interpret that as having meant size on disk
- shuckles 6y ago
  You’re right. The original post was not clear.

ajmurmann 6y ago

And it's already slow and needs to run multiple times to generate a table of contents and bibtex Edit: phone autocomplete typo

godelski 6y ago
Generally I use a Makefile that looks like this ``` SRC :=$(wildcard .tex .bib) Paper.pdf: $(SRC) pdflatex Paper bibtex Paper.aux pdflatex Paper pdflatex Paper short: $(SRC) pdflatex Paper clean: rm -f .glo .log .dvi .gls .toc .aux .ist .out .glg .pdf .bbl .blg .lof .brf *.sta .PHONY: clean ``` I hate that you have to run things multiple times to get references right. Really it should just be `pdflatex Paper` and you should be done. Every once in awhile I just get references that don't want to stick. Same with images. [ht!] and floatbarriers only go so far. As much as tikz is a pain (and beautiful), I'd definitely invest more time into making image placement and references easier for the average user. EDIT: code has a lot of wildcards before every extension but I'm not sure how to escape those on HN
- lokedhs 6y ago
  Isn't this what latexmk does for you? I don't use things like bibtext so I don't know how it handles that, but latexmk works perfectly for normal use cases, and ensures that you never have to run it more times than you need to.
  - godelski 6y ago
    I didn't know about this before so I can't answer, but it looks like yes. Thanks!

ploxiln 6y ago

I've enjoyed using TinyTex, which is sort of the Arch Linux of TeX distributions: https://yihui.org/tinytex/ https://yihui.org/tinytex/