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title: "TeX Live"
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category: "Office, notes and writing"
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tagline: "The standard LaTeX distribution, for typesetting papers, books and math."
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source: "pacman"
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package: "texlive"
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command: "pdflatex"
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website: "https://tug.org/texlive/"
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code: "https://tug.org/texlive/svn/"
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---
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## What it is
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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.
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```
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pdflatex paper.tex
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```
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## Why it's here
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- **Typesetting that looks right.** Equations, references and page layout come out to publication standard.
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- **Pandoc's PDF engine.** Pandoc uses LaTeX to turn Markdown and other formats into PDFs.
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## On CoreDesktop
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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.
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