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authorNicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>2023-06-27 15:11:18 +0200
committerNicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>2023-07-18 18:16:40 +0200
commit350562e9f4da628312239c291ba399a2172bdadb (patch)
tree0a03cd88d7fe59b4c009e46e1bfc9f9893773dcc /doc
parent81ccfeb928f796e8036859a003dac2a4b5eec566 (diff)
doc: Update TeX Live related documentation.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix import): "texlive.tlpdb" is located in TEXLIVE-SCRIPTS package. (Using TeX and LaTeX): Mention collections and schemes as a starting point. Illustrate it with an updated example. Update tiny TODO list. Fix call to "tlmgr".
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 2c460cbc08..1d8ebcd72f 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -14088,9 +14088,10 @@ TeX packages that are part of the @uref{https://www.tug.org/texlive/,
TeX Live distribution}.
Information about the package is obtained from the TeX Live package
-database, a plain text file that is included in the @code{texlive-bin}
-package. The source code is downloaded from possibly multiple locations
-in the SVN repository of the Tex Live project.
+database, a plain text file that is included in the
+@code{texlive-scripts} package. The source code is downloaded from
+possibly multiple locations in the SVN repository of the Tex Live
+project.
The command command below imports metadata for the @code{fontspec}
TeX package:
@@ -45406,14 +45407,19 @@ single @TeX{} Live package} (more than 7,000 of them), but it is huge
(more than 4@tie{}GiB for a single package!).
@item
-The ``modular'' @code{texlive-} packages: you install
-@code{texlive-base}, which provides core functionality and the main
+The ``modular'' @samp{texlive-} packages: you start off with
+a combination of @TeX{} Live @dfn{collections} and
+@dfn{schemes}---``meta-packages'' such as
+@code{texlive-collection-fontsrecommended}, or
+@code{texlive-collection-context}, that provide the set of packages
+needed in this particular domain, schemes being the name for collections
+of such collections. This grants you core functionality and the main
commands---@command{pdflatex}, @command{dvips}, @command{luatex},
-@command{mf}, etc.---together with individual packages that provide just
-the features you need---@code{texlive-listings} for the
-@code{listings} package, @code{texlive-hyperref} for @code{hyperref},
-@code{texlive-beamer} for Beamer, @code{texlive-pgf} for PGF/TikZ,
-and so on.
+@command{mf}, etc. You can then complete your selection with additional
+collections or individual packages that provide just the features you
+need---@code{texlive-listings} for the @code{listings} package,
+@code{texlive-beamer} for Beamer, @code{texlive-pgf} for PGF/TikZ, and
+so on.
@end itemize
We recommend using the modular package set because it is much less
@@ -45421,29 +45427,29 @@ resource-hungry. To build your documents, you would use commands such
as:
@example
-guix shell texlive-base texlive-wrapfig \
- texlive-hyperref texlive-cm-super -- pdflatex doc.tex
+guix shell texlive-scheme-basic texlive-cm-super -- pdflatex doc.tex
@end example
You can quickly end up with unreasonably long command lines though. The
-solution is to instead write a manifest, for example like this one:
+solution is to instead write a manifest, for example like this one,
+which would probably be a reasonable starting point for a French
+@LaTeX{} user:
@lisp
(specifications->manifest
'("rubber"
- "texlive-base"
- "texlive-wrapfig"
+ "texlive-scheme-basic"
+ "texlive-collection-latexrecommended"
+ "texlive-collection-fontsrecommended"
- "texlive-microtype"
- "texlive-listings" "texlive-hyperref"
+ "texlive-babel-french"
;; PGF/TikZ
"texlive-pgf"
- ;; Additional fonts.
- "texlive-cm-super" "texlive-amsfonts"
- "texlive-times" "texlive-helvetic" "texlive-courier"))
+ ;; Additional font.
+ "texlive-kpfonts"))
@end lisp
You can then pass it to any command with the @option{-m} option:
@@ -45452,12 +45458,9 @@ You can then pass it to any command with the @option{-m} option:
guix shell -m manifest.scm -- pdflatex doc.tex
@end example
-@xref{Writing Manifests}, for more on
-manifests. In the future, we plan to provide packages for @TeX{} Live
-@dfn{collections}---``meta-packages'' such as @code{fontsrecommended},
-@code{humanities}, or @code{langarabic} that provide the set of packages
-needed in this particular domain. That will allow you to list fewer
-packages.
+@xref{Writing Manifests}, for more on manifests. In the future, we plan
+to provide more collections and schemes. That will allow you to list
+fewer packages.
The main difficulty here is that using the modular package set forces
you to select precisely the packages that you need. You can use
@@ -45493,7 +45496,7 @@ you can search the @TeX{} Live package database using the @command{tlmgr}
command:
@example
-$ guix shell texlive-base -- tlmgr info phvr7t
+$ guix shell texlive-bin -- tlmgr info phvr7t
tlmgr: cannot find package phvr7t, searching for other matches:
Packages containing `phvr7t' in their title/description: