> He says he wanted to try "XeTeX" (which supports Unicode) but "...I was going to download it as an experiment and they wanted 5 gigabytes and 5 gigabytes at t

> He says he wanted to try "XeTeX" (which supports Unicode) but "...I was going to download it as an experiment and they wanted 5 gigabytes and 5 gigabytes at the particular boonies place I'm living would...mmm..not be finished yet!" He can try "Tectonic" [0] - a modern XeTeX based TeX/LaTeX distribution that installs a minimum system and then downloads and installs dependencies on-demand. Tectonic is written in C and Rust [1]. [0] https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/ https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/ [1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic