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# Tectonic

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According to the Tectonic Website,

  Tectonic is a modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.

Some of the most important features of the Tectonic engine are that Tectonic

- automatically downloads the necessary latex packages;
- doesn't write intermediate files;
- has full suport for Unicode and OpenType fonts;
- is self-contained, so it is not necessary to install TeX Live or other packages.

## Installation

The tectonic engine can easily be installed with the tectonic package.

## Usage

Basic tectonic usage is made with

    $ tectonic main.tex

which will compile it into a fully-processed pdf, with only one run of the command.

While compiling, tectonic will automatically download the necessary LaTeX packages, with no need for configuration.

### V2 interface

The newer interface, accessible with the `-X` flag, has more features compared to the default command-line interface. More information about it can be read in the official Tectonic Book.

## See also

- Tectonic Website
- Tectonic Book

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