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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 perf
by raspas42 12y ago
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.
- taejo 12y agoThousands 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...
- taejo 12y agoThousands 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...
- sjtrny 12y agoI'm not sure you grasp what Tex Live is.
- Argorak 12y agoI wrote down a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264582 Web browsers cannot perform all tasks of TeX, starting with page breaks.