TeX Live

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TeX Live
Original author TeX Users Group
Developer Karl Berry
Initial release1996
Stable release
2025 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 8 March 2025;7 months ago (8 March 2025)
Repository
Operating system FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, Solaris, Windows
Predecessor teTeX
Available inEnglish, Czech/Slovak, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese
Type TeX distribution
License LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), GPL (Version 2)
Website www.tug.org/texlive/

TeX Live is a cross-platform, free software distribution for the TeX typesetting system that includes major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts. It is the replacement of its no-longer supported [2] counterpart teTeX. [3] It is now the default TeX distribution for several Linux distributions such as openSUSE, [4] Fedora, [5] Debian, [6] [7] Slackware, [8] Ubuntu, [9] Termux [10] and Gentoo. [11] Other Unix operating systems like OpenBSD, [12] FreeBSD [13] and NetBSD [14] have also converted from teTeX to TeX Live.

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The project was originally started by Sebastian Rahtz in 1996 in collaboration with the TeX user groups worldwide, including the TeX Users Group. Today, it is maintained by Karl Berry, Norbert Preining, Akira Kakuto, Luigi Scarso and many other people. [15]

Up to version 2009, TeX Live could be run directly, or "live", from a CD-ROM, from a DVD-ROM, or from any other mobile device, hence its name. As of TeX Live 2010, it was no longer possible to run the distribution from the TeX Collection DVD due to restrictions in storage space. TeX Live follows the TeX Directory Structure.

Since the 2009 release, the editor TeXworks is included for Microsoft Windows, as well as the vector graphics language Asymptote. [16]

For macOS there is MacTeX, [17] which comprises the full TeX Live distribution as well as some additional tools for using TeX on the Mac, most notably the editor TeXShop and the bibliography manager BibDesk. Similar to Basic MikTeX in MikTeX, a substantially smaller download, BasicTeX, can also be used for Mac as well. [18] TeX Live can also be compiled and installed through MacPorts or Homebrew.

Release history

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VersionRelease dateSignificant changes
Future version: 20267 March 2025
Latest version:20258 March 2025Generate PDF-1.7 in all formats, both plain and LaTeX; before, it was 1.5. [19]
Unsupported: 202412 March 2024
Unsupported: 202319 March 2023Windows version starts and only provides 64-bit binaries. [20]
Unsupported: 20224 April 2022
Unsupported: 20211 April 2021
Unsupported: 202010 April 2020
Unsupported: 201919 April 2019New interface for TeX Live Manager.
Unsupported: 201828 April 2018Case-insensitive file name matching on Unix by default. LaTeX default input encoding now UTF-8.
Unsupported: 20174 June 2017LuaTeX 1.04. [21]
Unsupported: 20165 June 2016LuaTeX 0.90. [21]
Unsupported: 2015 LaTeX2e now include fixes previously found in fixltx2e. [22] LuaTeX 0.80. [21]
Unsupported: 2014
Unsupported: 2013XeTeX now uses HarfBuzz for font layout. [22] LuaTeX 0.77. [21]
Unsupported: 2012 MorphOS port [23]
Unsupported: 2011 biber added. [22] LuaTeX 0.70. [21]
Unsupported: 2010Automatic EPS conversion for pdfTeX. PDF 1.5 output by default. XeTeX have margin kerning. [24] LuaTeX 0.60. [21] Can no longer be run live from a DVD. [22]
Unsupported: 2009 TeXworks included in Windows and OSX ports. Asymptote included. [22] LuaTeX 0.40. [21]
Unsupported: 2008Incremental updates over the internet. First release with LuaTeX. [22]
Unsupported: 2007First release with XeTeX. [22]
Unsupported: 2005
Unsupported: 2004New folder structure. [22]
Unsupported: 2003 e-TeX as default. Latin Modern included. [25]
Unsupported: 72002Mac OS X support [25]
Unsupported: 6July 2001 [25] Finegrained collections. [25]
Unsupported: 5March 2000 [25] Removed all non-free software. [25]
Unsupported: 41999 [25] Windows support. Web2C 7.3. [25]
Unsupported: 31998 [25] Web2C 7.2. [25]
Unsupported: 21997 [25]
Unsupported: 1May 1996 [25]


See also

References

  1. ↑ "tl25 released". 8 March 2025. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
  2. ↑ Thomas Esser. "teTeX: no next release". Archived from the original on 21 December 2009. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
  3. ↑ "TeX Live" . Retrieved 19 November 2009.
  4. ↑ "openSUSE Software Search - TeX Live Packages" . Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "Fedora Wiki - TeX Live Migration" . Retrieved 19 November 2009.
  6. ↑ "Debian -- Details of package texlive in jessie" . Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  7. ↑ "TeX Live and Debian" . Retrieved 19 November 2009.
  8. ↑ "Index of /slackware/slackware-15.0/slackware/t". mirrors.slackware.com. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  9. ↑ "Ubuntu – Details of package texlive in wily" . Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  10. ↑ "TeX Live Package Management". The Termux Wiki.
  11. ↑ "Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 30 September 2008". Archived from the original on 12 January 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  12. ↑ Edward Barrett (June 2008). Barbara Beeton (ed.). "Porting TeX Live to OpenBSD" (PDF). TUGboat . 29 (2). Portland, Oregon, United States: TeX Users Group: 303–304. ISSN   0896-3207 . Retrieved 19 November 2009.
  13. ↑ "FreeBSD ports for TeX Live" . Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  14. ↑ "The NetBSD Packages Collection: print/texlive-tetex". Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
  15. ↑ "TeX Live - TeX Users Group". tug.org. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  16. ↑ "Release notes for TeX Live 2009" . Retrieved 20 November 2009.
  17. ↑ "MacTeX" . Retrieved 20 November 2009.
  18. ↑ "New Features - MacTeX - TeX Users Group". tug.org. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  19. ↑ "The TeX Live Guide—2025". tug.org. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  20. ↑ TeX Users Group. "TeX Live on Windows" . Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  21. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "LuaTeX Roadmap" . Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  22. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "The TEX Live Guide—2016" . Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  23. ↑ "'MorphOS: TeX Live 2012'".
  24. ↑ Karl Berry. "TEX Live 2010 news" (PDF). TUGboat . 31 (2). Portland, Oregon, United States: TeX Users Group: 173. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  25. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Rahtz, Sebastian. "TeX-Collection 2003" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
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