How to install pdflatex as an additional TeX Live Root?
If you like to use pdflatex of MiKTeX, install a minimal MiKTeX. To avoid doubling of all packages you can install the TEXMF tree of TeX Live (usually texlive/ /texmf-dist) as an additional TEXMF root with MiKTeX settings.
Is there a way to convert Tex to PDF?
A main original “converter” of TeX to PDF was firstly made during a Phd. in CZ (EU). miktex is a workaround, but well. Btw, do you like automake, cmake,… bison to compile C? There isn’t a sort of code that does that? Unfortunatelly the FreeBSD ports for Tex are a crap.
How to avoid doubling all packages in TeX Live?
To avoid doubling of all packages you can install the TEXMF tree of TeX Live (usually texlive/ /texmf-dist) as an additional TEXMF root with MiKTeX settings. As an alternative you could fake the -include-directory option using a batch, that extends TEXINPUTS variable before calling TeX Live’s pdflatex.
Is there a minimal installer for TeX Live?
No, the installer is a bloat of 3.3mb, the whole TeX and Metafont, including the TeX- and MF-Book, is 4.6mb, and textlive is a big bloatbomb of more than a Gigabyte. It is really a tragedy what TeX live did from TeX. tetex was a bloat, but texlive is by far much worse.
What are the main features of TeX Live?
This document describes the main features of the TeX Live software distribution — TeX and related programs for GNU/Linux and other Unix flavors, Mac OS X, and Windows systems. You may have acquired TeX Live by downloading, or on the TeX Collection DVD, which TeX user groups distribute among their members, or in other ways.
Which is the best way to install TeX Live?
You can install TeX Live either from DVD or over the Internet ( https://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html ). The net installer itself is small, and downloads everything requested from the Internet. The DVD installer lets you install to a local disk.