Tinylatex

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)

Prerequisite

• Docker

Installation

Simply clone this repository and add /path/to/repo/bin to your PATH.

Usage

Example:

tinylatex.sh /path/to/repo/example --main main.tex --latexmk-opt=-pdflua

Use tinylatex.sh --help to list all options.

Config

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.