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TeXLive Gentoo

29 Aug 2015 • Leave Comments
  1. ABCs
  2. Installation
    1. 2015 to 2016
    2. TeXLive packages
  3. Fontconfig
    1. Enable TeXLive fonts
  4. Chinese

ABCs

  1. Before anything else, read 2 Overview of TEX Live
  2. Read LaTeX on TeX engine and format.

Installation

root@tux / # echo "app-text/texlive xetex cjk l10n_zh science publishers" > /etc/portage/package.use/texlive
root@tux / # emerge -avt app-text/texlive
root@tux / # emerge -avt font-adobe-100dpi font-adobe-75dpi

  1. xetex is compatible with Fontconfig.

    XeTeX includes xeCJK macro package which invokes XeTeX engin to compile Chinese TeX files.

  2. (opt) cjk draws in CJK (dev-texlive/texlive-langcjk and dev-tex/cjk-latex)

    The old CJK macro script requires more user involvement.

  3. l10n_zh (dev-texlive/texlive-langchinese)

    CTeX extends and depends on CJK, thus making Chinese TeX compiling much easier.

  4. USE flags like extra depend on a world of packages many of which are unnecessary. If you are sure, just install what we need on the fly.

    Specially, publishers and science USE is useful when you write conference papers like IEEE, ACM etc.

  5. Many TeXLive packages depends on 100dpi and 75dpi bitmap fonts.
  6. TeXLive layout /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf and /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05searchpaths.cnf.

2015 to 2016

root@tux / # emerge -avtC --deselect=n $(qlist -IC texlive)
root@tux / # emerge -av1 app-text/texlive

If you are upgrading TeXLive, follow Tex Live Migration Guide and Upgrading TeXLive first.

TeXLive packages

app-text/texlive defines installtion configuration while app-text/texlive-core, dev-texlive/texlive-basic, dev-libs/kpathsea and web2c thereof consists of real sources. Separate TeXLive packages (i.e. dev-tex/biblatex, dev-tex/cjk-latex etc.) will go to TEXMFSITE (/usr/share/texmf-site) which is Gentoo-specific directory. This allows for more unitary upgrades or security fixes.

Use app-portage/pfl to search online repository locating specific package files.

We can also manually put TeXLive packages into TEXMFHOME or TEXMFLOCAL without portage management. By convention, we put personal macro files or packages into TEXMFHOME.

For example, for biblatex (superior to natbib) support:

root@tux / # emerge -av1 dev-tex/biblatex-3.7-r1
root@tux / # emerge -avt dev-tex/biber-2.7

Versions <dev-tex/biblatex-3.7-r1 would block dev-texlive/texlive-plaingeneric-2017. Make sure sub versions (*.5, *.7, *.10 etc.) of biblatex and biber should match.

Since verion over 2.0, biblatex package use biber (superior to bibtex) as te default backend:

root@tux / # emerge -avt dev-tex/biber

We could change it to TeXLive default bibtex in TeX source file. Read bibtex-vs-biber-and-biblatex-vs-natbib on bibliography.

Fontconfig

Though CTeX makes use of Fontconfig fonts directly, we need to make sure the fonts name are correctly resolved between Fontconfig and TeX. Check what you have:

$ fc-list :lang=zh-cn | sort

Edit /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ctex/fontset/ctex-xecjk-winfonts.def:

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% ctex-xecjk-winfonts.def: Windows 的 xeCJK 字体设置，默认为六种中易字体
% vim:ft=tex

\setCJKmainfont[BoldFont={NotoSansHans-Bold},ItalicFont={AdobeKaitiStd-Regular}]
  {AdobeFangsongStd-Regular}
\setCJKsansfont{NotoSansHans-DemiLight}
\setCJKmonofont{AdobeSongStd-Light}

\setCJKfamilyfont{zhsong}{AdobeSongStd-Light}
\setCJKfamilyfont{zhhei}{NotoSansHans-Bold}
\setCJKfamilyfont{zhkai}{AdobeKaitiStd-Regular}
\setCJKfamilyfont{zhfs}{AdobeFangsongStd-Regular}
% \setCJKfamilyfont{zhli}{LiSu}
% \setCJKfamilyfont{zhyou}{YouYuan}

\newcommand*{\songti}{\CJKfamily{zhsong}} % 宋体
\newcommand*{\heiti}{\CJKfamily{zhhei}}   % 黑体
\newcommand*{\kaishu}{\CJKfamily{zhkai}}  % 楷书
\newcommand*{\fangsong}{\CJKfamily{zhfs}} % 仿宋
% \newcommand*{\lishu}{\CJKfamily{zhli}}    % 隶书
% \newcommand*{\youyuan}{\CJKfamily{zhyou}} % 幼圆

\endinput

Remove extra square braces. For setCJKmonofont, just use a normal 宋体 since all Chinese characters are monospace (single and same width).

XeTeX can resolve Fontconfig fonts by font file name apart from font (family) name. We should set OSFONTDIR varaible then. Details refer to TeXLive Ubuntu.

Enable TeXLive fonts

There are many free fonts shipped with TeXLive. For XeTeX, they must be enabled in Fontconfig first:

# eselect fontconfig list
# eselect fontconfig enable 09-texlive.conf

Chinese

  1. CTeX by default requires XeTeX (xelatex binary) egnine.
  2. Current stable TeXLive-2014 still requires ctex-xecjk-winfonts.def. Update font names there as above.
  3. Due to a bug of xdvipdfmx, "Noto Sans S Chinese" (思源黑体) is garbled. Update to TeXLive-2015 or apply the patch.

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