LATEX-DEV(1)

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, in fedora 43, ubuntu noble

💖 LATEX-DEV(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the General Commands Manual, and it's all about the latex-dev era of executables. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

latex-dev, pdflatex-dev, xelatex-dev, lualatex-dev, dvilualatex-dev, platex-dev, uplatex-dev — release candidate LaTeX testing, aka the ✨ sneak peek era ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

latex-dev [first-line]

like, that's it. you just call it. [first-line] is the optional lil thing you can hand it 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so the tea is: these -dev executables are here for testing upcoming LaTeX2e kernel changes. they're not some random half-baked dev snapshot you found in a dumpster, no ma'am — these correspond to new formats that the LaTeX team has already put through stability and usability testing. so they're basically release candidates. main character energy, but pre-release. 👑

and the way that wider testing by knowledgeable users is desired?? it's literally the whole point of these executables existing, fr fr. 🙈 and the setup is so easy it's giving effortless: just swap out your regular engine (say, pdflatex) for the -dev engine name (pdflatex-dev) and that's all that should be needed. no cap. ✨

oh and a lil detail for the lua girlies: the lualatex-dev format is based on luahbtex, which is the luatex variant with harfbuzz enabled for glyph shaping. slay 💅

and please, please, PLEASE report bugs in these -dev versions — same as all LaTeX releases, bestie — following the procedure at https://www.latex-project.org/bugs. don't just suffer in silence, we wanna hear it 😭🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • latex(1) — the classic, the original, the icon 🌈

the LaTeX home page is https://latex-project.org — go lurk, it's cute there 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌟 this one's from Web2C 2023, dated 17 November 2019 — so like, vintage but still serving. go test some release candidates and report those bugs, mwah 💖🎀🦋

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