(Ruby or BSD) and Public Domain and MIT and CC0 and zlib and UCD
(GPL-1.0-or-later or Artistic-1.0-perl) and (GPL-2.0-or-later or Artistic-1.0-perl) and MIT and UCD and Public Domain and BSD
(GPL-1.0-or-later or Artistic-1.0-perl) and MIT and UCD
ASL 2.0 and LGPL-2.1-only and Zlib and OFL-1.1 and Public Domain and LGPL-2.0-only and GPLv2+ and MPL-1.1 and Libpng and LGPL-3.0-only and BSL-1.0 and GPLv2 and GPLv3 and CPL-1.0 and IJG and MIT and LPPL-1.3c and ICU and psutils
Public Domain and LPPL-1.3c and GPL-1.0-or-later and MIT and BSD-2-Clause
LuaTeX is an extended version of pdfTeX using Lua as an embedded scripting language. The LuaTeX project's main objective is to provide an open and configurable variant of TeX while at the same time offering downward compatibility. LuaTeX uses Unicode (as UTF-8) as its default input encoding, and is able to use modern (OpenType) fonts (for both text and mathematics). It should be noted that LuaTeX is still under development; its specification has been declared stable, but absolute stability may not in practice be assumed.
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XeTeX is an extension of TeX that integrates TeX's typesetting capabilities with (a) the Unicode text encoding standard (supporting most of the world’s scripts) and (b) modern font technologies (TrueType and OpenType) and text layout services (AAT, OpenType layout, SIL Graphite) provided by the host operating system and available libraries. With XeTeX, the advanced typographic features provided by OpenType fonts become available for all TeX users, as well as support for complex non-roman scripts. XeTeX also eliminates the complex task of managing a TeX font installation. XeTeX is now part of the standard TeX distribution TeXLive and works well with TeX macro packages like LaTeX and ConTeXt.
A development of Metafont for creating graphics
MetaPost uses a language based on that of Metafont to produce precise technical illustrations. Its output is scalable PostScript or SVG, rather than the bitmaps Metafont creates.
Object-oriented scripting language interpreter
Ruby is a fast and easy interpreted scripting language for object-oriented programming. It has many functions for processing text Files and perform system management tasks (such as Perl).
A highly capable, feature-rich programming language
Perl 5 is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 30 years of development. Perl 5 runs on over 100 platforms from portables to mainframes and is suitable for both rapid prototyping and large scale development projects.
Path searching library for TeX-related files
Kpathsea is a library and utility programs which provide path searching facilities for TeX file types, including the self- locating feature required for movable installations, layered on top of a general search mechanism.
mpost to PDF, native MetaPost graphics inclusion
The mptopdf script does standalone conversion from mpost to PDF, using the supp-* and syst-* files. They also allow native MetaPost graphics inclusion in LaTeX (via pdftex.def) and ConTeXt. They can be used independently of the rest of ConTeXt, yet are maintained as part of it. So in TeX Live we pull them out to this separate package for the benefit of LaTeX users who do not install the rest of ConTeXt. This can be found on CTAN in macros/pdftex/graphics.
This package is the shared library for perl.
A TeX extension for direct creation of PDF
An extension of TeX which can be configured to directly generate PDF documents instead of DVI. All current free TeX distributions including TeX live, MacTeX and MiKTeX include pdfTeX (Plain TeX) and pdfLaTeX (LaTeX). ConTeXt was designed around use of pdfTeX (though it is now migrating towards LuaTeX).
A full featured, parameter driven macro package, which fully supports advanced interactive documents. See the ConTeXt garden for a wealth of support information.
A set of basic GNU tools commonly used in shell scripts
These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
The TeX Live software distribution offers a complete TeX system for a variety of Unix, Macintosh, Windows and other platforms. It encompasses programs for editing, typesetting, previewing and printing of TeX documents in many different languages, and a large collection of TeX macros and font libraries. The distribution includes extensive general documentation about TeX, as well as the documentation for the included software packages.