Tinylatex is a tiny portable (containerized) latex build environment. This is simply accomplished by using the following existing tools:
- TeX Live Docker image minidocks/texlive
- TinyTex (small LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live)
- Docker
Simply clone this repository and add /path/to/repo/bin to your PATH.
Example:
tinylatex.sh /path/to/repo/example --main main.tex --latexmk-opt=-pdfluaUse tinylatex.sh --help to list all options.
The build environment can be configured by adding a config.json. Current features:
- Additional latex packages to install
- Fonts to download and install
See example for details.