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If access to your favorite #CTAN repository gives you a “Listing failed” error using the #TeXLive Utility for #macOS, this email on how to install the updated #tlmgr will help you —
https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2026-July/052493.html

Your #LaTeX installation will then run as smooth as ever!

Currently having slight regrests for installing #TexLive on #openSUSE tumbleweed. When it updates, it’s a *massive* update.

Updating software on my laptop and wondering why I still have #Haskell installed, give that I am really not using it. Pretty much the same with #TeXlive

This is probably one of those “I would rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it” cases, especially with #TeXlive

Did you know that #Berlin is part of the command numberline?

#texlive

#LaTeX on macOS with #TexLive strikes again, trying to install a missing package:

tlmgr: Local TeX Live (2025) is older than remote repository (2026).

Is there any LaTeX editor fox Linux that lets us put the preview on another window for multi-monitor use?

#LaTeX #TeXLive

@anthk The check on TeX Live is so badly outdated (16 years!!!!) that I can only laugh. The license situation and status back then was a hugely different topic.

Current #texlive has gone through full reviews from various distributions, so you might update your statements for about 2 decades to get better results.

@shom I used #freesoftware to slice up and merge PDFs from various textbooks to produce reading packets. (#TeXLive's #pdfjam, also recommend @pdfarranger).

Took the trouble to get them approved by the copyright compliance police in University Libraries. Been distributing them with a clear conscience and a light heart for many years.

I hope I have students who will remember me the way you remember that teacher of yours.

https://github.com/pdfjam/pdfjam

You know that you are a nerd, when you spent half an hour to get the page number of the index entry for recursion into the displayed pages of the #recursion entry.

#texlive

Eh, what the f* ?
texlive 9,53 GB
LibreOffice 701MB
Why?
#latex #texlive #libreoffice #windows

At the ConTeXt intro workshop last Wednesday, participants struggled with ConTeXt on the newly released TeX Live 2026.
Not the usual about wrong paths or unwritable cache directories.

ConTeXt was apparently correctly installed, generating the file database and the format was working, but then it couldn’t find the format file if the "context" or "mtxrun" command wasn’t called with its full path.

TeX Live’s processes were changed before this release and something’s broken.

#TeXLive #TeXConTeXt

TeX Live 2026 is released - mirror updates are running! #TeXlive https://www.preining.info/blog/2026/03/tex-live-2026-released/

The #TeXLive 2026 pretest has started. I activated the pretest builds within our #IslandOfTeX #docker images yesterday.

So in case you want to help testing wthout killing/replacing your local installation feel free to use those. e.g. the full image is available via:

registry.gitlab.com/islandoftex/images/texlive:pretest-full

Rebuild will happen daily to keep you up to date.
Thanks for helping!

#TeXLaTeX

More Information on the pretest can be found at https://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html

2/ Sie hat sich auch für #LaTeX entschieden. #texlive

@halfa Might be too late, but next time maybe the DEPendency Printer for #TeXLive might help.

https://gitlab.com/islandoftex/texmf/depp

There's still a few things on the todo list, but for the last projects I didn't have to add anything manually except additional binaries.

#TeXLaTeX

Although I have discontinued support and further development of the #TeXLaTeX package #marginnote, I have moved development from #github to #Codeberg, created another release, and also uploaded it to #CTAN. #TeXLive has already adopted the new release. The change it contains to column detection in native twocolumn mode comes from TeX.SX user cabohah. A new maintainer is still being sought.

https://codeberg.org/komascript/marginnote

Obwohl ich Support und Weiterentwicklung des #TeXLaTeX Pakets #marginnote eingestellt habe, habe ich die Entwicklung von #github nach #Codeberg verlagert, eine weitere Release erstellt und auch auf #CTAN hochgeladen. #TeXLive hat die neue Release bereits übernommen. Die darin enthaltene Änderung der Spaltenermittlung im nativen twocolumn-Modus stammt von TeX.SX-Benutzer cabohah. Es wird weiterhin ein neuer Maintainer gesucht.

https://codeberg.org/komascript/marginnote

Ein Teil meines etwas ungewöhnlichen Jahresendspurts: #RWTH-CI - das offizielle #TeXLaTeX bundle der #RWTH #Aachen ist jetzt endlich Teil von #TeXLive.

Ich hoffe dass ich nicht zu viele Bugs übersehen haben … aber falls ihr noch welche findet … gerne Bescheid geben ;-)

https://ctan.org/pkg/rwth-ci

Danke auch an @lukascbossert für die Beiträge, das Testen und vor allem auch deinen Einsatz für die Veröffentlichung.

I can always count on TeX Live to make every upgrade take at least half an hour. I know I probably don't need all those *-doc packages, but still.

#TeX #LaTeX #TeXLive

I've possibly found a regression in #texlive but it might not be packaging but the #upstream. Reading the build instructions does not make me confident I can bisect this one.

Over here at @arXiv we have released our new submission system as well as update to #TeXLive 2025! Yeah! Read the announcements here:
https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/09/10/attention-authors-submission-1-5-and-other-updates/
https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/09/10/tex-live-2025-on-arxiv/