![]() ![]() In fact, I appreciate one nice feature of MiKTeX on Windows (which seems to be cross-platform now): automatically installing missing LaTeX packages. My daily OS is macOS, and the officially recommended TeX Live distribution is MacTeX, which contains several additional packages that I don’t need, such as the TeX Live Utility (I know how to use the tlmgr command), TeXShop (I use R Markdown primarily and hope not to edit or even read raw LaTeX if possible), LaTeXiT, and so on. Perhaps I didn’t use it correctly (anything I try will lead to errors), but you are only allowed to use the user mode of tlmgr, which is very restrictive to me. I checked it again this year, and it still seems to be broken. ![]() I waited for a couple of years before tlmgr was finally available on Debian/Ubuntu, and I was extremely excited about it, but soon disappointed, because it seemed to be broken and not usable at all (couldn’t do anything with it). For personal computers, I don’t see any point of requiring sudo, considering the fact that TeX Live can be a self-contained folder that can be placed anywhere on your computer. I also dislike the fact that it often requires sudo (on *nix) to manage LaTeX packages. As I said on the homepage, my own pain with existing LaTeX distributions is that they are often too big, and the documentation, while being comprehensive and useful, usually does not highlight the most useful part to me (how to find and install a missing package). I certainly don’t want to reinvent wheels for no reason. In the last 12 years, I have tried TeXLive (on Windows / Mac / Ubuntu / Arch), MacTeX and MiKTeX and more than a dozen editors, and settled with TeXLive + TeXStudio on all platforms because there were no flaws present in other variants.Some developers may doubt if I’m just reinventing wheels. Two weeks ago, I had to remove MiKTeX from my colleague’s computer because it was not installing a package that was not present in the local distribution (and biber could not be run or reinstalled at all) because she had to turn her thesis in the next day in TeXLive, everything was working as smoothly as it gets. MiKTeX is unofficial, and sometimes breaks on Windows-quite rarely, but seriously enough to bring your work to a halt. Besides that-and I cannot emphasise it enough-in 4 years, I have encountered many cryptic errors that were MiKTeX-specific on various colleagues’ computers that could not be replicated in TeXLive or Overleaf (that is using TeXLive). TeXMaker is becoming a thing of the past-compared to it, TeXStudio provides more features (in small things like dark theme support, or document parsing for better structure view, or better paragraph rewrapping etc.) and is being more actively developed. I would actually suggest two equivalent alternatives. Beamer Tutorial on Overleaf ( tutorial)ĭedicated users of this sub may write to the mods for a custom flair :) Related subs.Using Inkscape to draw figures ( workflow example).Alternatives: MetaPost, PSTricks, Asymptote ![]()
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