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  <title>Typesetting</title>

  <para>This chapter includes <application>texlive</application> applications that
  create output equivalent to typesetting.</para>

  <para>There are two alternative routes through this chapter:</para>

  <para>Some people may wish to use the binary installer, either because of the
  complexity of installing all of <application>texlive</application> from
  source, or because they only want a part of the package, or perhaps because
  they wish to get updates as soon as those are available (the source is only
  updated annually, but the binaries and associated TeX files are updated for
  approximately 10 months). These people should begin at <xref
  linkend="tex-path"/> and then follow the <xref linkend="tl-installer"/>
  instructions,. After installing, they can run
  <command>tlmgr</command> to update their system.</para>

  <para>Most people reading BLFS will wish to build from source. BLFS used to
  start by installing <application>install-tl-unx</application> and then use that
  to bootstrap the build.  Nowadays, we build almost the whole of
  <application>texlive</application> <emphasis>without</emphasis> a binary install,
  by adding the separately-packaged texmf files into this build.  For this, begin
  at <xref linkend="tex-path"/> then go to <xref linkend="texlive"/> which will
  install most of
  <application>texlive</application>, together with <emphasis>all</emphasis> of the
  supporting files. This almost-complete install can then be used to build the
  remaining parts of <application>texlive</application>: <xref
  linkend="asymptote"/>, <xref linkend="biber"/> and <xref linkend="xindy"/>.
  </para>

  <para>Because the texmf files (including documentation, fonts, scripts and
  supporting files) are all in one tarball, it is not practical to limit what
  gets extracted in a sensible way (e.g. to exclude one or other of the typesetting
  engines) when building from source in this manner.</para>

  <para>In either case, BLFS installs into
  <filename class="directory">/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;</filename> with the sole
  exception of two libraries from the source install which are installed into
  <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> for convenience.</para>

  <para>Also, please note that texlive is released annually, and updating from the
  previous year to the current year is no longer supported. If for some reason
  you wish to keep versions for multiple years, for most things you can mount the
  old or new system at /opt/texlive and fix up your PATH as necessary. However
  doing that will not preserve any changes in <filename
  class="directory">texmf-local</filename> and if you build from source and try to
  run a newer version of <application>biber</application> with an older version of
  <application>biblatex</application> it is unlikely to work.</para>

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  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="asymptote.xml"/>
  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="biber.xml"/>
  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="xindy.xml"/>

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