tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
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A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.
25 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 0 stories, 25 comments · first 2019-06-15 · latest 2026-06-09
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…done done Ran Download portable Tectonic LaTeX engine Bash cd /tmp && curl -sL -o tectonic.zip "https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/releases/download/tectonic%400.15.0/tectonic-0.15.0-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip" && unzip -o…
comment by maxloh · 2026-06-09 · in Claude Fable 5 -
…a good bit of Rust. Just thought I'd mention since it's related and I really like the project. [1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
comment by nixpulvis · 2026-05-07 · in RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust -
…[2] https://github.com/latex3/latex3 [3] http://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/ [4] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/
comment by xvilka · 2026-03-06 · in TeX Live 2026 is available for download now -
…the github issues and it seems like the Tectonic devs happened to fork Xelatex and not Lualatex. https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/158#... Anyway, what they made works perfectly for me, I luckily don't use any of the…
comment by fryktelig · 2025-05-05 · in Modern LaTeX -
…in some cases. As an alternative, tectonic is a bit faster then the standard LaTex distributions: https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/discussions... https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/
comment by fsiefken · 2025-05-05 · in Modern LaTeX -
…chaotic LaTeX landscape. Bit of a shame that they opted for XeTeX rather than LuaTeX though. [0]: https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
comment by watusername · 2025-05-05 · in Modern LaTeX -
…use TeX and friends (i.e. LaTeX, XeTeX, XeLaTeX, etc.); see https://www.latex-project.org/get/ [1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/graphs/cont...
comment by troymc · 2025-03-03 · in Tectonic: a modernised, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine -
You may want to try https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic , which downloads files from TeXLive on-demand.
comment by l2dy · 2023-11-06 · in I rewrote my CV in Typst and I'll never look back -
Personally I use https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
comment by earthling8118 · 2023-07-26 · in Job applicants are battling AI résumé filters with ‘white fonting’ -
…a wrapper around C and C++ code. By far, it was the most promising thing in this distribution. [1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459
comment by xvilka · 2022-08-21 · in Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk -
…Tectonic is written in C and Rust [1]. [0] https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/ [1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
comment by lr1970 · 2022-08-20 · in Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk -
…can be done, in particular syncronization with the Tectonic mainline and XeTeX code update[4] [1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/766 [2] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459 [3]…
comment by xvilka · 2021-05-27 · in Finl is not LaTeX -
…tps://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/ [2] https://github.com/crlf0710/tectonic/tree/oxidize [3] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459
comment by xvilka · 2021-03-18 · in Learnlatex.org: A place to learn LaTeX online -
It seems you're linking to wrappers to the underlying https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/tree/master...
comment by kgwgk · 2020-12-07 · in Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust -
O'rly? https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/blob/master...
comment by scoopertrooper · 2020-12-07 · in Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust -
If seems to me that upstream is C. https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/
comment by infogulch · 2020-12-07 · in Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust -
…reason is that the main project is written in C whereas this fork uses Rust instead as explained in https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459
comment by Thomashuet · 2020-12-07 · in Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust -
Why link to a fork instead of the main project? https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
comment by danyim · 2020-12-07 · in Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust -
…I can't use it though as it doesn't support biber which would be needed for Unicode author names: https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/35
comment by est31 · 2020-12-07 · in Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust -
The port was done with the help of c2rust and the following refactoring. See more information at https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459
comment by xvilka · 2020-12-07 · in Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust -
…[1] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust [2] https://c2rust.com/manual/c2rust-refactor/index.html [3] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459 [4] https://github.com/crlf0710/tectonic/tree/oxidize [5]…
comment by xvilka · 2019-10-23 · in How to not rewrite it in Rust -
A big problem for Europeans is that Tectonic currently defaults to US letter paper size: https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/126
comment by ngirard · 2019-10-06 · in Tectonic – TeX/LaTeX Engine in Rust -
…refer to the last release, but the GitHub commit history seems active, if not quite high velocity: https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/graphs/comm...
comment by dochtman · 2019-10-06 · in Tectonic – TeX/LaTeX Engine in Rust -
…is a bunch of issues[3] if you want to help the project. [1] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust [2] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459 [3] https://github.com/crlf0710/tectonic/issues
comment by xvilka · 2019-09-13 · in Rewriting TeX/LaTeX Engine in Rust -
While still an early project, I am keeping my eye on the Tectonic( https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic ) project. A re-write of the core Xetex engine in Rust with a focus on many quality of life improvements - useful error…
comment by silly_giraffe · 2019-06-15 · in Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour of LaTeX