The TeX Live Guide—2021.docx

The TeXLive Guide—2021

Karl Berry, editor

https://tug.org/texlive/

March 2021

Contents

1Introduction

1.1TeX  Live and the TeX  Collection

1.2Operating system support

2.3Overview of the prede fi ned texmf trees

2.4Extensions to TeX

2.5Other notable programs in TeX Live

3Installation

3.1Starting the installer

3.1.1Unix

3.1.2Mac OS X

3.1.3Windows

3.1.4Cygwin

3.1.5The text installer

3.3Command-line install-tl options

3.3.1The  -repository  option

3.4Post-install actions

3.4.1Environment variables for Unix

3.4.2Environment variables: Global con fi guration

3.4.3Internet updates after DVD installation

3.4.4System font con fi guration for XeTeX  and LuaTeX

3.4.5ConTeXt Mark IV

3.4.6Integrating local and personal macros

3.4.7Integrating third-party fonts

5.1GUI interfaces for  tlmgr

5.2Sample  tlmgr  command-line invocations

6.6Increasing maximum memory on Windows and Cygwin

7A user’s guide to Web2C

7.1Kpathsea path searching

7.1.1Path sources

7.1.2Con fi g fi les

7.1.3Path expansion

7.1.4Default expansion

7.1.5Brace expansion

7.1.6Subdirectory expansion

7.1.7Summary of special characters in  texmf.cnf  fi les

7.4$TEXMFDOTDIR

8Acknowledgements

9.1.52008

9.1.62009

9.1.72010

9.1.82011

9.1.92012

9.1.102013

9.1.112014

9.1.122015

9.1.132016

9.1.142017

1Introduction

1.1TeXLive and the TeXCollection

This document describes the main features of the TeX Live software

distribution — TeX and related programs for GNU/Linux and other Unix

flavors, Mac OS X, and Windows systems.

You may have acquired TeX Live by downloading, or on the

TeXCollection DVD, which TeX user groups distribute among their

members, or in other ways. Section2.1briefly describes the contents of

For a brief summary of the major changes in this edition of TeX Live, see

the end of the document, section9(p.77).

1.2Operating system support

TeX Live contains binaries for many Unix-based platforms, including

GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Cygwin. The included sources can be

compiled on platforms for which we do not provide binaries.

As to Windows: Windows7 and later are supported. Windows Vista may

still mostly work, but TeX Live will no longer even install on Windows XP