A comprehensive TeX system that you can install on your hard disk. It includes support for most Unix system architectures, including GNU/Linux and MacOS, and for Windows. The MacTeX distribution is an unchanged TeX Live plus some Mac-specific software, but is distributed in a separate archive.
The TeX, PDF(e)TeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, and other engines are provided in the distribution, with several different running formats each; a wide range of support programs and macro packages is also included.
Beware: the download from CTAN is large (several GB); it comes in the form of an ISO image, and is available from CTAN mirrors through the `Sources' link below.
include network installation, tarballs, and mirroring. description: description: >- ⚠️ This appears to have been renamed `text`. The longer description of the package, which may include HTML markup. An inner tag `` is used to reference a package with attribute `refid`. type: string deprecated: true examples: texlive: value: >-A comprehensive TeX system that you can install on your hard disk. It includes support for most Unix system architectures, including GNU/Linux and MacOS, and for Windows. The MacTeX distribution is an unchanged TeX Live plus some Mac-specific software, but is distributed in a separate archive.
The TeX, PDF(e)TeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, and other engines are provided in the distribution, with several different running formats each; a wide range of support programs and macro packages is also included.
Beware: the download from CTAN is large (several GB); it comes in the form of an ISO image, and is available from CTAN mirrors through the `Sources' link below.
include network installation, tarballs, and mirroring. language: description: >- UNDOCUMENTED. The ISO code for the language of the description. Alternately it may be `null` to indicate the default language, i.e. English. type: - string - 'null' lang: description: >- ⚠️ This appears to have been renamed `lang`. The ISO code for the language of the description. Alternately it may be `null` to indicate the default language, i.e. English. type: - string - 'null' $comment: ⚠️ The value of `null` is UNDOCUMENTED. deprecated: true required: [] title: PackageDescription documentation: description: List of references to documentation. type: array items: type: object properties: language: description: |- UNDOCUMENTED. The ISO code for the language of the description. type: - string - 'null' lang: description: |- ⚠️ This appears to have been renamed `language`. The ISO code for the language of the description. type: - string - 'null' $comment: ⚠️ The value of `null` is UNDOCUMENTED. deprecated: true details: description: The (English) text describing this documentation item. type: string href: description: A reference to the documentation. The prefix `ctan:` indicates a reference to a directory on CTAN. If the parameter `keep-url` is `true` then this attribute contains always a valid URL without the `ctan:` prefix. type: string format: uri required: [] title: PackageDocumentation ctan: description: The location of the package in the CTAN tree. type: object properties: path: description: The relative path of the package in the CTAN tree. type: string format: uri-reference file: description: The indicator that this package consists of a single file only. type: boolean default: false required: - path install: oneOf: - type: string format: uri-reference description: >- UNDOCUMENTED. The location of the package on CTAN relative to the CTAN directory `/install` in form of an installable TDS-compliant zip archive. - type: object properties: path: description: The path relative to the CTAN directory `/install`. type: string format: uri-reference required: - path description: >- ⚠️ This does not seem to be a correct type definition. The location of the package on CTAN relative to the CTAN directory `/install` in form of an installable TDS-compliant zip archive. deprecated: true miktex: oneOf: - type: string description: |- UNDOCUMENTED. The name of the package in MiKTeX. - type: object properties: location: description: >- ⚠️ This does not seem to be a correct type definition. The name of the package in MiKTeX. type: string required: - location deprecated: true texlive: oneOf: - type: string description: |- UNDOCUMENTED. The name of the package in TeX Live. - type: object properties: location: description: >- ⚠️ This does not seem to be a correct type definition. The name of the package in TeX Live. type: string deprecated: true index: description: A list of extra terms to be indexed for the search. type: array items: type: string topics: description: A list of topics keys for this entry. type: array items: type: string home: description: The URL of the home page of the package. type: string format: uri support: description: The URL of the support for the package. type: string format: uri announce: description: The URL of the announcements for the package. type: string format: uri bugs: description: The URL of the bug tracker for the package. type: string format: uri repository: description: The URL of the source code repository for the package. type: string format: uri development: description: The URL of the developer community for the package. type: string format: uri also: description: UNDOCUMENTED. type: array items: type: string examples: tex: value: id: tex name: TeX aliases: [] caption: A sophisticated typesetting engine authors: - id: knuth active: true copyright: - owner: D. E. Knuth year: null license: knuth version: number: '3.141592653' date: 2021-02-05 descriptions: - language: null text: >-TeX is a typesetting system that incorporates a macro processor. A TeX source document specifies or incorporates a number of macro definitions that instruct the TeX engine how to typeset the document. The TeX engine also uses font metrics generated by Metafont, or by any of several other mechanisms that incorporate fonts from other sources into an environment suitable for TeX.
TeX has been, and continues, a basis and an inspiration for several other programs, including e-TeX and PDFTeX.
The distribution includes the source of Knuth’s TeX book; this source is there to read, as an example of writing TeX — it should not be processed without Knuth’s direct permission.
support: https://lists.tug.org/tex-k bugs: https://lists.tug.org/tex-k repository: https://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/web2c/ ctan: path: /systems/knuth/dist/tex file: true miktex: miktex-tex-bin-2.9 texlive: tex topics: - engine texlive: value: id: texlive name: texlive aliases: [] caption: A comprehensive distribution of TeX and friends authors: - id: texlive active: true copyright: [] license: other-free version: number: '2025' date: '' descriptions: - language: null text: >-A comprehensive TeX system that you can install on your hard disk. It includes support for most Unix system architectures, including GNU/Linux and MacOS, and for Windows. The MacTeX distribution is an unchanged TeX Live plus some Mac-specific software, but is distributed in a separate archive.
The TeX, PDF(e)TeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, and other engines are provided in the distribution, with several different running formats each; a wide range of support programs and macro packages is also included.
Beware: the download from CTAN is large (several GB); it comes in the form of an ISO image, and is available from CTAN mirrors through the `Sources' link below.
Other ways to acquire TeX Live include network installation, tarballs, and mirroring.
documentation: - language: null details: Readme href: ctan:/systems/texlive/Images/README.md home: https://tug.org/texlive/ support: https://tug.org/texlive/lists.html bugs: https://lists.tug.org/tex-live repository: https://tug.org/texlive/svn/ ctan: path: /systems/texlive/Images file: true topics: - distribution also: - texlive-source required: - id - name - caption - authors - descriptions - documentation title: Package '404': description: Not Found content: application/json: schema: description: Not Found type: object properties: errors: type: array items: type: string const: Not found required: - errors title: NotFound $comment: UNDOCUMENTED. externalDocs: url: https://ctan.org/help/json/1.2/pkg /licenses: get: summary: List of Licenses description: The list of licenses can be obtained. The licenses contained in this list are ordered ascending on the key of the license. parameters: - name: key in: query schema: type: string description: If set, only items with keys starting with the given string will be returned. responses: '200': description: OK content: application/json: schema: description: List of licenses. type: array items: description: Information about a license. type: object properties: key: description: The key of the license. allOf: - description: Identifier of a license. type: string enum: - apache2 - artistic - artistic2 - bsd - bsd2 - bsd3 - bsd4 - cc-by-1 - cc-by-2 - cc-by-3 - cc-by-4 - cc-by-nc-1 - cc-by-nc-2 - cc-by-nc-3 - cc-by-nc-4 - cc-by-nc-nd-1 - cc-by-nc-nd-2 - cc-by-nc-nd-2.5 - cc-by-nc-nd-3 - cc-by-nc-nd-4 - cc-by-nc-sa4 - cc-by-nd-1 - cc-by-nd-2 - cc-by-nd-3 - cc-by-nd-4 - cc-by-sa-1 - cc-by-sa-2 - cc-by-sa-3 - cc-by-sa-4 - cc0 - eupl - fdl - gfl - gfsl - gpl - gpl1 - gpl1+ - gpl2 - gpl2+ - gpl3 - gpl3+ - isc - knuth - lgpl - lgpl2.1 - lgpl3 - lppl - lppl1 - lppl1.2 - lppl1.3 - lppl1.3a - lppl1.3b - lppl1.3c - mit - nocommercial - nosell - nosource - ofl - opl - other-free - other-nonfree - pd - shareware - x11 - noinfo title: LicenseIdentifier name: description: The printable name of the license. type: string free: description: The indication whether the license is considered free. type: boolean required: - key - name - free title: License title: Licenses externalDocs: url: https://ctan.org/help/json/1.2/licenses /version: get: summary: Version description: The information about the version of the interface can be obtained. responses: '200': description: OK content: application/json: schema: description: The information about the version of the interface. type: object properties: version: description: The version number as string. type: string const: '1.2' additionalProperties: false required: - version title: ApiVersion externalDocs: url: https://ctan.org/help/json/1.2/version components: parameters: author-name: name: author-name in: query schema: type: boolean default: false description: >- ⚠️ This does not seem to be working. If the parameter `author-name` can be set to `true` to include the first name and family name of the author as well. deprecated: true drop: name: drop in: query schema: type: array items: type: string $comment: >- ⚠️ `authors`, `descriptions`, and `topics` are UNDOCUMENTED. ⚠️ `author`, `description`, and `topic` do not seem to be valid field names. enum: - announce - author - authors - bugs - caption - copyright - ctan - description - descriptions - development - documentation - home - index - install - miktex - name - repository - support - texlive - topic - topics - version title: PackageAttribute default: [] style: form explode: false description: A comma separated list of fields to drop. keep-url: name: keep-url in: query schema: type: boolean default: false description: Always keeps valid URLs as attributes, instead of `ctan:`-prefixed ones. key: name: key in: query schema: type: string description: If set, only items with keys starting with the given string will be returned. schemas: Author: description: Information about an author. type: object properties: key: description: The key of the author. type: string givenname: description: The given name. type: string default: '' familyname: description: The family name. type: string default: '' female: description: The boolean indicator that the author is female. type: boolean default: false died: description: The indicator that the author is deceased. type: boolean pkgs: description: >- ⚠️ This appears to have been renamed `packages`. List of ids of packages mentioning the author. This attribute is included if the query parameter `ref` is set to `true`. type: array items: type: string deprecated: true packages: description: >- UNDOCUMENTED. List of ids of packages mentioning the author. This attribute is included if the query parameter `ref` is set to `true`. type: array items: type: string examples: knuth: value: key: knuth givenname: Donald E. von: '' familyname: Knuth junior: '' female: false died: false knuth?ref=true: value: key: knuth givenname: Donald E. von: '' familyname: Knuth junior: '' female: false died: false pkgs: - latex-fonts - cweb - cm-mf - cm - cm-tfm - cm-pk - concrete - dvitype - gkpmac - gray - graphbase - gen - halftone - jablantile - knuth-errata - knuth-lib - knuth-letter - knuth-dist - knuth-local - knuth-base - list - llist - metafont - mfware - manual - mfbook - picmac - punk - punknova - ransom - selectpage - texware - testfont - tex - tangle - tex--xet - texbook - twocolumns - vfware - vf-knuth - web - weave - base - cmtest - mflogo-font - plain required: - key - died title: Author NotFound: description: Not Found type: object properties: errors: type: array items: type: string const: Not found required: - errors title: NotFound Topic: description: Information about a topic. type: object properties: key: description: The key of the topic. type: string details: description: A short descriptive text about the meaning of the topic. type: string packages: description: >- UNDOCUMENTED. The list of ids of packages referring to the topic. This attribute is included if the parameter `ref` is set to `true`. type: array items: type: string uniqueItems: true references: description: >- ⚠️ This appears to have been renamed `packages`. The list of ids of packages referring to the topic. This attribute is included if the parameter `ref` is set to `true`. type: array items: type: string deprecated: true uniqueItems: true examples: cv: value: key: cv details: curriculum vitae/Resumé required: - key - details title: Topic PackageSummary: description: Summary of a package. type: object properties: key: description: The key of the package. type: string name: description: The name of the package. type: string caption: description: |- UNDOCUMENTED. A short descriptive text about the content of the package. type: string detailed: description: |- ⚠️ This appears to have been renamed `caption`. A short descriptive text about the content of the package. type: string deprecated: true required: - key - name - caption title: PackageSummary PackageAttribute: type: string $comment: >- ⚠️ `authors`, `descriptions`, and `topics` are UNDOCUMENTED. ⚠️ `author`, `description`, and `topic` do not seem to be valid field names. enum: - announce - author - authors - bugs - caption - copyright - ctan - description - descriptions - development - documentation - home - index - install - miktex - name - repository - support - texlive - topic - topics - version title: PackageAttribute PackageAuthor: description: Information about a package author. type: object properties: id: description: The key of the author. type: string active: description: UNDOCUMENTED. type: boolean required: - id - active title: PackageAuthor Copyright: type: object properties: owner: description: The name of the copyright holder. type: string year: description: The year or years of the copyright. type: - string - 'null' $comment: ⚠️ The value of `null` is UNDOCUMENTED. required: - owner - year title: Copyright LicenseIdentifier: description: Identifier of a license. type: string enum: - apache2 - artistic - artistic2 - bsd - bsd2 - bsd3 - bsd4 - cc-by-1 - cc-by-2 - cc-by-3 - cc-by-4 - cc-by-nc-1 - cc-by-nc-2 - cc-by-nc-3 - cc-by-nc-4 - cc-by-nc-nd-1 - cc-by-nc-nd-2 - cc-by-nc-nd-2.5 - cc-by-nc-nd-3 - cc-by-nc-nd-4 - cc-by-nc-sa4 - cc-by-nd-1 - cc-by-nd-2 - cc-by-nd-3 - cc-by-nd-4 - cc-by-sa-1 - cc-by-sa-2 - cc-by-sa-3 - cc-by-sa-4 - cc0 - eupl - fdl - gfl - gfsl - gpl - gpl1 - gpl1+ - gpl2 - gpl2+ - gpl3 - gpl3+ - isc - knuth - lgpl - lgpl2.1 - lgpl3 - lppl - lppl1 - lppl1.2 - lppl1.3 - lppl1.3a - lppl1.3b - lppl1.3c - mit - nocommercial - nosell - nosource - ofl - opl - other-free - other-nonfree - pd - shareware - x11 - noinfo title: LicenseIdentifier PackageVersion: description: Information about the version of a package. type: object properties: number: description: The version number. type: string date: description: The version date. type: string minProperties: 1 title: PackageVersion PackageDescription: description: A long description of a package. type: object properties: text: description: >- UNDOCUMENTED. The longer description of the package, which may include HTML markup. An inner tag `` is used to reference a package with attribute `refid`. type: string examples: texlive: value: >-A comprehensive TeX system that you can install on your hard disk. It includes support for most Unix system architectures, including GNU/Linux and MacOS, and for Windows. The MacTeX distribution is an unchanged TeX Live plus some Mac-specific software, but is distributed in a separate archive.
The TeX, PDF(e)TeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, and other engines are provided in the distribution, with several different running formats each; a wide range of support programs and macro packages is also included.
Beware: the download from CTAN is large (several GB); it comes in the form of an ISO image, and is available from CTAN mirrors through the `Sources' link below.
include network installation, tarballs, and mirroring. description: description: >- ⚠️ This appears to have been renamed `text`. The longer description of the package, which may include HTML markup. An inner tag `` is used to reference a package with attribute `refid`. type: string deprecated: true examples: texlive: value: >-A comprehensive TeX system that you can install on your hard disk. It includes support for most Unix system architectures, including GNU/Linux and MacOS, and for Windows. The MacTeX distribution is an unchanged TeX Live plus some Mac-specific software, but is distributed in a separate archive.
The TeX, PDF(e)TeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, and other engines are provided in the distribution, with several different running formats each; a wide range of support programs and macro packages is also included.
Beware: the download from CTAN is large (several GB); it comes in the form of an ISO image, and is available from CTAN mirrors through the `Sources' link below.
include network installation, tarballs, and mirroring. language: description: >- UNDOCUMENTED. The ISO code for the language of the description. Alternately it may be `null` to indicate the default language, i.e. English. type: - string - 'null' lang: description: >- ⚠️ This appears to have been renamed `lang`. The ISO code for the language of the description. Alternately it may be `null` to indicate the default language, i.e. English. type: - string - 'null' $comment: ⚠️ The value of `null` is UNDOCUMENTED. deprecated: true required: [] title: PackageDescription PackageDocumentation: type: object properties: language: description: |- UNDOCUMENTED. The ISO code for the language of the description. type: - string - 'null' lang: description: |- ⚠️ This appears to have been renamed `language`. The ISO code for the language of the description. type: - string - 'null' $comment: ⚠️ The value of `null` is UNDOCUMENTED. deprecated: true details: description: The (English) text describing this documentation item. type: string href: description: A reference to the documentation. The prefix `ctan:` indicates a reference to a directory on CTAN. If the parameter `keep-url` is `true` then this attribute contains always a valid URL without the `ctan:` prefix. type: string format: uri required: [] title: PackageDocumentation Package: description: Information about a package. type: object properties: id: description: The unique id of the package. type: string name: description: The print representation of the package name. type: string caption: description: A short description of the package. type: string authors: description: The list of authors. type: array items: description: Information about a package author. type: object properties: id: description: The key of the author. type: string active: description: UNDOCUMENTED. type: boolean required: - id - active title: PackageAuthor copyright: description: The information about the copyright. type: array items: type: object properties: owner: description: The name of the copyright holder. type: string year: description: The year or years of the copyright. type: - string - 'null' $comment: ⚠️ The value of `null` is UNDOCUMENTED. required: - owner - year title: Copyright license: description: The keys of licenses. oneOf: - description: Identifier of a license. type: string enum: - apache2 - artistic - artistic2 - bsd - bsd2 - bsd3 - bsd4 - cc-by-1 - cc-by-2 - cc-by-3 - cc-by-4 - cc-by-nc-1 - cc-by-nc-2 - cc-by-nc-3 - cc-by-nc-4 - cc-by-nc-nd-1 - cc-by-nc-nd-2 - cc-by-nc-nd-2.5 - cc-by-nc-nd-3 - cc-by-nc-nd-4 - cc-by-nc-sa4 - cc-by-nd-1 - cc-by-nd-2 - cc-by-nd-3 - cc-by-nd-4 - cc-by-sa-1 - cc-by-sa-2 - cc-by-sa-3 - cc-by-sa-4 - cc0 - eupl - fdl - gfl - gfsl - gpl - gpl1 - gpl1+ - gpl2 - gpl2+ - gpl3 - gpl3+ - isc - knuth - lgpl - lgpl2.1 - lgpl3 - lppl - lppl1 - lppl1.2 - lppl1.3 - lppl1.3a - lppl1.3b - lppl1.3c - mit - nocommercial - nosell - nosource - ofl - opl - other-free - other-nonfree - pd - shareware - x11 - noinfo title: LicenseIdentifier - title: LicenseIdentifiers type: array items: description: Identifier of a license. type: string enum: - apache2 - artistic - artistic2 - bsd - bsd2 - bsd3 - bsd4 - cc-by-1 - cc-by-2 - cc-by-3 - cc-by-4 - cc-by-nc-1 - cc-by-nc-2 - cc-by-nc-3 - cc-by-nc-4 - cc-by-nc-nd-1 - cc-by-nc-nd-2 - cc-by-nc-nd-2.5 - cc-by-nc-nd-3 - cc-by-nc-nd-4 - cc-by-nc-sa4 - cc-by-nd-1 - cc-by-nd-2 - cc-by-nd-3 - cc-by-nd-4 - cc-by-sa-1 - cc-by-sa-2 - cc-by-sa-3 - cc-by-sa-4 - cc0 - eupl - fdl - gfl - gfsl - gpl - gpl1 - gpl1+ - gpl2 - gpl2+ - gpl3 - gpl3+ - isc - knuth - lgpl - lgpl2.1 - lgpl3 - lppl - lppl1 - lppl1.2 - lppl1.3 - lppl1.3a - lppl1.3b - lppl1.3c - mit - nocommercial - nosell - nosource - ofl - opl - other-free - other-nonfree - pd - shareware - x11 - noinfo title: LicenseIdentifier version: description: Information about the version of a package. type: object properties: number: description: The version number. type: string date: description: The version date. type: string minProperties: 1 title: PackageVersion descriptions: description: Long descriptions of the package. type: array items: description: A long description of a package. type: object properties: text: description: >- UNDOCUMENTED. The longer description of the package, which may include HTML markup. An inner tag `` is used to reference a package with attribute `refid`. type: string examples: texlive: value: >-A comprehensive TeX system that you can install on your hard disk. It includes support for most Unix system architectures, including GNU/Linux and MacOS, and for Windows. The MacTeX distribution is an unchanged TeX Live plus some Mac-specific software, but is distributed in a separate archive.
The TeX, PDF(e)TeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, and other engines are provided in the distribution, with several different running formats each; a wide range of support programs and macro packages is also included.
Beware: the download from CTAN is large (several GB); it comes in the form of an ISO image, and is available from CTAN mirrors through the `Sources' link below.
include network installation, tarballs, and mirroring. description: description: >- ⚠️ This appears to have been renamed `text`. The longer description of the package, which may include HTML markup. An inner tag `` is used to reference a package with attribute `refid`. type: string deprecated: true examples: texlive: value: >-A comprehensive TeX system that you can install on your hard disk. It includes support for most Unix system architectures, including GNU/Linux and MacOS, and for Windows. The MacTeX distribution is an unchanged TeX Live plus some Mac-specific software, but is distributed in a separate archive.
The TeX, PDF(e)TeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, and other engines are provided in the distribution, with several different running formats each; a wide range of support programs and macro packages is also included.
Beware: the download from CTAN is large (several GB); it comes in the form of an ISO image, and is available from CTAN mirrors through the `Sources' link below.
include network installation, tarballs, and mirroring. language: description: >- UNDOCUMENTED. The ISO code for the language of the description. Alternately it may be `null` to indicate the default language, i.e. English. type: - string - 'null' lang: description: >- ⚠️ This appears to have been renamed `lang`. The ISO code for the language of the description. Alternately it may be `null` to indicate the default language, i.e. English. type: - string - 'null' $comment: ⚠️ The value of `null` is UNDOCUMENTED. deprecated: true required: [] title: PackageDescription documentation: description: List of references to documentation. type: array items: type: object properties: language: description: |- UNDOCUMENTED. The ISO code for the language of the description. type: - string - 'null' lang: description: |- ⚠️ This appears to have been renamed `language`. The ISO code for the language of the description. type: - string - 'null' $comment: ⚠️ The value of `null` is UNDOCUMENTED. deprecated: true details: description: The (English) text describing this documentation item. type: string href: description: A reference to the documentation. The prefix `ctan:` indicates a reference to a directory on CTAN. If the parameter `keep-url` is `true` then this attribute contains always a valid URL without the `ctan:` prefix. type: string format: uri required: [] title: PackageDocumentation ctan: description: The location of the package in the CTAN tree. type: object properties: path: description: The relative path of the package in the CTAN tree. type: string format: uri-reference file: description: The indicator that this package consists of a single file only. type: boolean default: false required: - path install: oneOf: - type: string format: uri-reference description: >- UNDOCUMENTED. The location of the package on CTAN relative to the CTAN directory `/install` in form of an installable TDS-compliant zip archive. - type: object properties: path: description: The path relative to the CTAN directory `/install`. type: string format: uri-reference required: - path description: >- ⚠️ This does not seem to be a correct type definition. The location of the package on CTAN relative to the CTAN directory `/install` in form of an installable TDS-compliant zip archive. deprecated: true miktex: oneOf: - type: string description: |- UNDOCUMENTED. The name of the package in MiKTeX. - type: object properties: location: description: |- ⚠️ This does not seem to be a correct type definition. The name of the package in MiKTeX. type: string required: - location deprecated: true texlive: oneOf: - type: string description: |- UNDOCUMENTED. The name of the package in TeX Live. - type: object properties: location: description: |- ⚠️ This does not seem to be a correct type definition. The name of the package in TeX Live. type: string deprecated: true index: description: A list of extra terms to be indexed for the search. type: array items: type: string topics: description: A list of topics keys for this entry. type: array items: type: string home: description: The URL of the home page of the package. type: string format: uri support: description: The URL of the support for the package. type: string format: uri announce: description: The URL of the announcements for the package. type: string format: uri bugs: description: The URL of the bug tracker for the package. type: string format: uri repository: description: The URL of the source code repository for the package. type: string format: uri development: description: The URL of the developer community for the package. type: string format: uri also: description: UNDOCUMENTED. type: array items: type: string examples: tex: value: id: tex name: TeX aliases: [] caption: A sophisticated typesetting engine authors: - id: knuth active: true copyright: - owner: D. E. Knuth year: null license: knuth version: number: '3.141592653' date: 2021-02-05 descriptions: - language: null text: >-TeX is a typesetting system that incorporates a macro processor. A TeX source document specifies or incorporates a number of macro definitions that instruct the TeX engine how to typeset the document. The TeX engine also uses font metrics generated by Metafont, or by any of several other mechanisms that incorporate fonts from other sources into an environment suitable for TeX.
TeX has been, and continues, a basis and an inspiration for several other programs, including e-TeX and PDFTeX.
The distribution includes the source of Knuth’s TeX book; this source is there to read, as an example of writing TeX — it should not be processed without Knuth’s direct permission.
support: https://lists.tug.org/tex-k bugs: https://lists.tug.org/tex-k repository: https://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/web2c/ ctan: path: /systems/knuth/dist/tex file: true miktex: miktex-tex-bin-2.9 texlive: tex topics: - engine texlive: value: id: texlive name: texlive aliases: [] caption: A comprehensive distribution of TeX and friends authors: - id: texlive active: true copyright: [] license: other-free version: number: '2025' date: '' descriptions: - language: null text: >-A comprehensive TeX system that you can install on your hard disk. It includes support for most Unix system architectures, including GNU/Linux and MacOS, and for Windows. The MacTeX distribution is an unchanged TeX Live plus some Mac-specific software, but is distributed in a separate archive.
The TeX, PDF(e)TeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, and other engines are provided in the distribution, with several different running formats each; a wide range of support programs and macro packages is also included.
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