Why TinyTeX?

1 · Yihui Xie · Dec. 15, 2017, midnight
Some developers may doubt if I’m just reinventing wheels. I certainly don’t want to reinvent wheels for no reason. 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 also dislike the fact that it often requires sudo (on *nix) to manage LaTeX packages. For personal computers, I don’t ...