[ANNOUNCEMENT] TeX Live 2016

[Ken Brown]

Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream 
release, TeX Live 2016.

TeX Live provides a comprehensive, cross-platform TeX system.  It 
includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts 
that are free software, including support for many languages around the 
world.  For more information, see

    http://www.tug.org/texlive/

There have been major changes to LuaTeX since TeX Live 2015.  See

    http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#news

for details, as well as for a list of other (minor) changes.

The TeX Live executables and supporting libraries are contained in the 
following Cygwin packages:

* texlive-20160520-1

* libkpathsea6-20160520-1
* libkpathsea-devel-20160520-1

libkpathsea is a TeX file and path search library.

* libptexenc1-20160520-1
* libptexenc-devel-20160520-1

libptexenc is a TeX Unicode encoding library.

* libsync1-20160520-1
* libsync-devel-20160520-1

libsync is a TeX source/output synchronization library.

* libtexlua52_5-20160520-1
* libtexlua52-devel-20160520-1

libtexlua52 is a TeX lua scripting library.

* libtexluajit2-20160520-1 (x86 only)
* libtexluajit-devel-20160520-1 (x86 only)

libtexluajit is a TeX Just-In-Time lua compiler library.

* asymptote-2.38-1

Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for 
technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like 
syntax.  Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality 
typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text.

In addition, upstream TeX Live provides thousands of "packages", grouped 
into "collections".  There is a Cygwin package for each upstream 
collection; there are also Cygwin packages containing documentation for 
some of the collections.

* texlive-collection-basic-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-basic-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-bibtexextra-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-bibtexextra-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-binextra-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-binextra-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-context-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-context-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-fontsextra-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-fontsextra-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-fontsrecommended-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-fontutils-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-fontutils-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-formatsextra-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-games-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-genericextra-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-genericextra-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-genericrecommended-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-genericrecommended-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-htmlxml-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-humanities-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-humanities-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langafrican-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langarabic-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langchinese-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langcjk-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langcyrillic-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langczechslovak-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langenglish-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langeuropean-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langfrench-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langgerman-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langgreek-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langindic-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langitalian-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langjapanese-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langkorean-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langother-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langpolish-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langportuguese-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-langspanish-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-latex-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-latex-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-latexextra-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-latexextra-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-latexrecommended-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-latexrecommended-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-luatex-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-luatex-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-mathextra-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-mathextra-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-metapost-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-metapost-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-music-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-music-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-omega-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-pictures-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-pictures-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-plainextra-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-pstricks-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-pstricks-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-publishers-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-publishers-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-science-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-science-doc-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-xetex-20160520-1
* texlive-collection-xetex-doc-20160520-1

Recommendations
===============
Most people do not need the full TeX Live installation, which is huge 
and can take a long time to install.  If you're not sure what you need, 
here are some possible ways to start:

Minimal: Install texlive and its dependencies.  This provides plain TeX 
but not LaTeX.

Small: Install texlive-collection-latex and its dependencies.  This is a 
minimal installation with LaTeX.

Standard: Install texlive-collection-latexrecommended and its 
dependencies.  This provides the most commonly used non-graphics LaTeX 
packages.  Install texlive-collection-pictures if you want the standard 
graphics packages too.

If you want or need more, consider installing some of the following:

* texlive-collection-binextra
* texlive-collection-context
* texlive-collection-fontsrecommended
* texlive-collection-fontutils
* texlive-collection-genericrecommended
* texlive-collection-luatex
* texlive-collection-mathextra
* texlive-collection-metapost
* texlive-collection-plainextra
* texlive-collection-xetex

Fontconfig
==========
There is a script /usr/bin/texlive-enable-fontconfig that you can run if 
you want the fonts distributed with TeX Live to be available to 
applications that rely on fontconfig.  See 
/usr/share/doc/texlive/README.Cygwin for more details.  (The script can 
take a few minutes to run, so be patient.)

tlmgr
=====
texlive-collection-basic includes a restricted version of the tlmgr (TeX 
Live Manager) utility.  See 
/usr/share/doc/texlive-collection-basic/README.Cygwin for more details.

Ken Brown
Cygwin's TeX Live maintainer

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