
The report at is a good example to show how users can be confused. Without installing the full version, you may be confused when compiling a document and a needed packages is not installed.

It takes much longer to update packages if you choose to update all via tlmgr update -all (and you will be installing newer versions of packages that you do not need, too). In other words, I'm just wasting my disk space with more than 98% of the packages. I do not know if I'm a representative user, but for the more than 5600 packages on CTAN, I routinely use less than 100 of them. It contains a lot of LaTeX packages that an average user does not need. However, if you use a cloud service for continuous integration or testing (e.g., Travis CI) of your software package that depends on LaTeX, this can be worse, because each time you update your software (e.g., though a GIT commit), the virtual machine or cloud container downloads 5GB again. It can take a long time to download, although we usually do this only once a year. Why should this 5GB bother us at all? The problems are: Yes, I do hear the argument that the hard disk storage is fairly cheap today.

The size of its full version is 4 to 5GB. If you do not want to be bothered by LaTeX errors that tell you certain class or style files are missing, one way to go is to install the full version of the LaTeX distribution, which typically contains the vast majority of packages on CTAN. ”, then you need to add theĮntry lmodern into your configuration in the section fonts.fonts and rebuild.# It seems there is no way to force Pandoc to generate \cite', x, fixed = TRUE) If you get an error message saying “Invalid fontname ‘Latin Modern Roman/ICU’. Invalid fontname ‘Latin Modern Roman/ICU’ If LaTex (perhaps through Pandoc) complains about missing lmodern.sty, make sure you have at least -medium installed (-full should work as well while -small worked for some, but not for all). Inherit (texlive) scheme-medium xifthen ifmtarg framed paralist titlesec You can install a set with extra packages by using something like The following Tex Live schemes are available:Ĭontains everything in the small scheme + more packages and languagesĬontains everything in the basic scheme + xetex, metapost, a few languages.Ĭontains everything in the plain scheme but includes latex.Ĭontains more than the medium scheme, but nowhere near the full scheme. Organization of TeX Live into 'schemes' and 'collections' Since TeX Live consist of thousands of packages, to make managing it easier, NixOS replicates the
