#xetex posts — Ben Crowder https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/xetex/ Feed for blog posts tagged with #xetex. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:19:59 GMT en-US https://bencrowder.net/ Tectonic is an intriguing modern TeX engine written in Rust and powered by XeTeX. What exactly that... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2019/729/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2019/729/ Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:00:00 GMT Tectonic is an intriguing modern TeX engine written in Rust and powered by XeTeX.

What exactly that last bit means, I’m not entirely sure. But what I do know is that Tectonic is a much smaller install than MacTeX, and my initial tests came out with no problems whatsoever. Also, by default it doesn’t write out those intermediate .aux/.log files. I’m planning to use it instead of MacTeX going forward.

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