The tectonic crate delivers a modernized, complete, self-contained
TeX/LaTeX
engine, powered by XeTeX and
TeXLive. It provides a CLI and ties together the
functionality of a large collection of sub-crates.
The Tectonic crates collectively depend on a relatively large number of third-party libraries. See the Book’s build instructions for a listing and guidance on setting up the build.
The crate build can be customized with the following [Cargo features]:
external-harfbuzz: build against an external version of the [Harfbuzz] text
shaping library, rather than a vendored version (the default)geturl-curl: use the [curl] crate to implement HTTP requests. In order for
this to take effect, you must use --no-default-features because
geturl-reqwest is a default feature and it takes precedencegeturl-reqwest: use the [reqwest] crate to implement HTTP requests (enabled
by default)native-tls-vendored: if using [reqwest], activate the vendored option in
the [native-tls] crate, causing OpenSSL to be vendoredThe Book describes some less-used features and provides a bit more detail.
The main tectonic crate ties together the functionality of a number of
sub-crates:
tectonic_bridge_coretectonic_bridge_flatetectonic_bridge_freetype2tectonic_bridge_graphite2tectonic_bridge_harfbuzztectonic_bridge_icutectonic_bundlestectonic_cfg_supporttectonic_dep_supporttectonic_docmodeltectonic_engine_bibtextectonic_engine_xdvipdfmxtectonic_engine_xetextectonic_errorstectonic_geturltectonic_io_basetectonic_pdf_iotectonic_status_basetectonic_xdvtectonic_xetex_layout