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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2013


Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream release, TeX Live 2013.

TeX Live provides a comprehensive, cross-platform TeX system. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software, including support for many languages around the world. For more information, see

  http://www.tug.org/texlive/

The TeX Live executables and supporting libraries are contained in the following Cygwin packages:

*** texlive-20130529-1

*** libkpathsea6-20130529-1
*** libkpathsea-devel-20130529-1

libkpathsea is a TeX file and path search library.

*** libptexenc1-20130529-1
*** libptexenc-devel-20130529-1

libptexenc is a TeX Unicode encoding library.

*** asymptote-2.23-1

Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text.

In addition, upstream TeX Live provides thousands of "packages", grouped into "collections". There is a Cygwin package for each upstream collection; there are also Cygwin packages containing documentation for some of the collections.

*** texlive-collection-basic-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-basic-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-bibtexextra-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-bibtexextra-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-binextra-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-binextra-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-context-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-context-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-fontsextra-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-fontsextra-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-fontutils-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-fontutils-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-formatsextra-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-games-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-genericextra-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-genericextra-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-genericrecommended-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-genericrecommended-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-htmlxml-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-humanities-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-humanities-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langafrican-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langarabic-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langcjk-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langcyrillic-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langczechslovak-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langenglish-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langeuropean-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langfrench-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langgerman-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langgreek-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langindic-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langitalian-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langother-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langpolish-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langportuguese-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-langspanish-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-latex-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-latex-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-latexextra-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-latexextra-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-latexrecommended-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-latexrecommended-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-luatex-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-luatex-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-mathextra-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-mathextra-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-metapost-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-metapost-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-music-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-music-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-omega-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-pictures-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-pictures-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-plainextra-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-pstricks-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-pstricks-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-publishers-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-publishers-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-science-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-science-doc-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-xetex-20130529-1
*** texlive-collection-xetex-doc-20130529-1

Due to upstream reorganization of the collections, the following Cygwin packages are now obsolete:

*** texlive-collection-documentation-arabic
*** texlive-collection-documentation-base
*** texlive-collection-documentation-bulgarian
*** texlive-collection-documentation-chinese
*** texlive-collection-documentation-czechslovak
*** texlive-collection-documentation-dutch
*** texlive-collection-documentation-english
*** texlive-collection-documentation-finnish
*** texlive-collection-documentation-french
*** texlive-collection-documentation-german
*** texlive-collection-documentation-italian
*** texlive-collection-documentation-japanese
*** texlive-collection-documentation-korean
*** texlive-collection-documentation-mongolian
*** texlive-collection-documentation-polish
*** texlive-collection-documentation-portuguese
*** texlive-collection-documentation-russian
*** texlive-collection-documentation-serbian
*** texlive-collection-documentation-slovenian
*** texlive-collection-documentation-spanish
*** texlive-collection-documentation-thai
*** texlive-collection-documentation-turkish
*** texlive-collection-documentation-ukrainian
*** texlive-collection-documentation-vietnamese
*** texlive-collection-langcroatian
*** texlive-collection-langfinnish
*** texlive-collection-langhebrew
*** texlive-collection-langhungarian
*** texlive-collection-langlithuanian
*** texlive-collection-langmongolian
*** texlive-collection-langswedish
*** texlive-collection-langtibetan
*** texlive-collection-langturkmen
*** texlive-collection-langvietnamese
*** texlive-collection-texinfo

With one exception, setup.exe should automatically offer to install replacements for any of these obsolete packages that you have installed. The exception is the tiny package texlive-collection-texinfo, whose contents have now been absorbed by the much larger texlive-collection-plainextra. Most people do not need what was in texlive-collection-texinfo, but they have installed it because it was mistakenly required by various other packages. So if you really want it, you'll have to explicitly choose to install texlive-collection-plainextra.

Postinstall scripts
===================
Many of the texlive-collection-* packages have time-consuming postinstall scripts, especially if they have to install fonts or formats. Please be patient, and don't assume that the scripts or setup.exe have hung.

Recommendations
===============
Most people do not need the full TeX Live installation, which is huge and can take hours to install. If you're not sure what you need, here are some possible ways to start:

Minimal: Install texlive and its dependencies. This provides plain TeX but not LaTeX.

Small: Install texlive-collection-latex and its dependencies. This is a minimal installation with LaTeX.

Standard: Install texlive-collection-latexrecommended and its dependencies. This provides the most commonly used non-graphics LaTeX packages. Install texlive-collection-pictures if you want the standard graphics packages too.

If you find you need more, consider installing the following packages:

* texlive-collection-bibtexextra
* texlive-collection-binextra
* texlive-collection-fontsextra
* texlive-collection-formatsextra
* texlive-collection-genericextra
* texlive-collection-latexextra
* texlive-collection-mathextra

Ken Brown
Cygwin's TeX Live maintainer

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