TeXRocks – A minimal (La)TeX distribution

TeXRocks is a minimal (La)TeX distribution powered by Luarocks/Lux and LuaTeX. It has the following features:

• virtual environment: all TeX packages are installed to .lux/5.3/XXXXX-package_name@version/, like nodejs's node_modules/ and python's .venv/. After development of PDF, you can delete it safely, and it will not affect your next development of PDF.
• minimal: we only install required packages
• package version control: when you declare latex-base == "2025.06.01-1", it will install exactly latex-base and no other versions! Pin the version like nodejs's package.json and python's requirements.txt
• package installation in parallel: install many packages at the same time
• a server to host compiled TeX packages: TeXRocks
• use lua to develop TeX packages: texmf

We also provide some related TeX tools, like kpsewhich and texdef written in lua. See official website TeXRocks

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