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+---
+title: "TeX Live"
+category: "Office, notes and writing"
+tagline: "The standard LaTeX distribution, for typesetting papers, books and math."
+source: "pacman"
+package: "texlive"
+command: "pdflatex"
+website: "https://tug.org/texlive/"
+code: "https://tug.org/texlive/svn/"
+---
+
+## What it is
+
+TeX Live is a complete distribution of TeX and LaTeX, the typesetting system used for academic papers, theses, books and anything heavy on mathematics. You write a plain-text `.tex` file with markup for structure and formulas, and LaTeX lays it out as a typeset PDF. TeX Live bundles the engines (pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX), common packages and fonts.
+
+```
+pdflatex paper.tex
+```
+
+## Why it's here
+
+- **Typesetting that looks right.** Equations, references and page layout come out to publication standard.
+- **Pandoc's PDF engine.** Pandoc uses LaTeX to turn Markdown and other formats into PDFs.
+
+## On CoreDesktop
+
+CoreDesktop installs the `texlive` package group from pacman, which brings in the main TeX Live packages. Run `pdflatex`, `xelatex` or `lualatex` in a terminal. `update` keeps it current with the rest of the pacman packages.