jxoesneon-tectonic

Crates.io	jxoesneon-tectonic
lib.rs	jxoesneon-tectonic
version	0.17.3
created_at	2026-01-05 01:02:35.61962+00
updated_at	2026-01-12 09:15:27.068469+00
description	A modernized, complete, embeddable TeX/LaTeX engine.
homepage	https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/
repository	https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/
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documentation

https://docs.rs/tectonic

README

The `tectonic` crate

[!NOTE] This crate is part of the FerroTeX project, a specialized fork of Tectonic. It is published to crates.io as jxoesneon-tectonic.

The tectonic crate delivers a modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive. It provides a CLI and ties together the functionality of a large collection of sub-crates.

Building Tectonic

The Tectonic crates collectively depend on a relatively large number of third-party libraries. See the Book’s build instructions for a listing and guidance on setting up the build.

The crate build can be customized with the following Cargo features:

external-harfbuzz: build against an external version of the Harfbuzz text shaping library, rather than a vendored version (the default)
geturl-curl: use the curl crate to implement HTTP requests. In order for this to take effect, you must use --no-default-features because geturl-reqwest is a default feature and it takes precedence
geturl-reqwest: use the reqwest crate to implement HTTP requests (enabled by default)
native-tls-vendored: if using reqwest, activate the vendored option in the native-tls crate, causing OpenSSL to be vendored

The Book describes some less-used features and provides a bit more detail.

Sub-crates

The main tectonic crate ties together the functionality of a number of sub-crates:

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