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tectonic

brew install tectonic v0.16.9 MIT

Modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine written in Rust with automatic dependency management.

Why you might care

Tectonic replaces the complexity of traditional TeX distributions (texlive, miktex) with a single binary that fetches only needed packages on-demand. It handles fonts, graphics, and Unicode natively, making it ideal for CI/CD pipelines and reproducible document builds without the gigabyte footprint of full TeX installations.

Categories

compiler document-processor

Alternatives

texlive miktex xetex luatex

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Runtime dependencies

freetype graphite2 harfbuzz icu4c@78 libpng openssl@3

Build dependencies

pkgconf rust

Links

https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/
Brew formula source: Formula/t/tectonic.rb

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