TeX Live

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TeX Live
Original author(s) TeX Users Group
Developer(s) Karl Berry
Initial release1996
Stable release
2023 / 19 March 2023;4 months ago (2023-03-19)
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 [1] counterpart teTeX. [2] It is now the default TeX distribution for several Linux distributions such as openSUSE, [3] Fedora, [4] Debian, [5] [6] Slackware, [7] Ubuntu, [8] Termux [9] and Gentoo. [10] Other Unix operating systems like OpenBSD, [11] FreeBSD [12] and NetBSD [13] 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, Akira Kakuto, Luigi Scarso and many other people. [14]

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. [15]

For macOS there is MacTeX, [16] 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. [17] TeX Live can also be compiled and installed through MacPorts or Homebrew.

Release history

Legend:Old version, not maintainedOlder version, still maintainedCurrent stable versionLatest preview versionFuture release
VersionRelease dateSignificant changes
Current stable version:202319 March 2023Windows version starts and only provides 64-bit binaries. [18]
Old version, no longer maintained: 20224 April 2022
Old version, no longer maintained: 20211 April 2021
Old version, no longer maintained: 202010 April 2020
Old version, no longer maintained: 201919 April 2019New interface for TeX Live Manager.
Old version, no longer maintained: 201828 April 2018Case-insensitive file name matching on Unix by default. LaTeX default input encoding now UTF-8.
Old version, no longer maintained: 20174 June 2017LuaTeX 1.04. [19]
Old version, no longer maintained: 20165 June 2016LuaTeX 0.90. [19]
Old version, no longer maintained: 2015 LaTeX2e now include fixes previously found in fixltx2e. [20] LuaTeX 0.80. [19]
Old version, no longer maintained: 2014
Old version, no longer maintained: 2013XeTeX now uses HarfBuzz for font layout. [20] LuaTeX 0.77. [19]
Old version, no longer maintained: 2012 MorphOS port [21]
Old version, no longer maintained: 2011 biber added. [20] LuaTeX 0.70. [19]
Old version, no longer maintained: 2010Automatic EPS conversion for pdfTeX. PDF 1.5 output by default. XeTeX have margin kerning. [22] LuaTeX 0.60. [19] Can no longer be run live from a DVD. [20]
Old version, no longer maintained: 2009 TeXworks included in Windows and OSX ports. Asymptote included. [20] LuaTeX 0.40. [19]
Old version, no longer maintained: 2008Incremental updates over the internet. First release with LuaTeX. [20]
Old version, no longer maintained: 2007First release with XeTeX. [20]
Old version, no longer maintained: 2005
Old version, no longer maintained: 2004New folder structure. [20]
Old version, no longer maintained: 2003 e-TeX as default. Latin Modern included. [23]
Old version, no longer maintained: 72002Mac OS X support [23]
Old version, no longer maintained: 6July 2001 [23] Finegrained collections. [23]
Old version, no longer maintained: 5March 2000 [23] Removed all non-free software. [23]
Old version, no longer maintained: 41999 [23] Windows support. Web2C 7.3. [23]
Old version, no longer maintained: 31998 [23] Web2C 7.2. [23]
Old version, no longer maintained: 21997 [23]
Old version, no longer maintained: 1May 1996 [23]

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  19. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "LuaTeX Roadmap" . Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  20. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "The TEX Live Guide—2016" . Retrieved 29 May 2017.
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