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Per project page, Tectonic is derived from Xelatex. It downloads the required files on demand, so the installation size is much smaller than a full Latex system.
For example, a typical Texlive installation on Linux is about 2.5 GB, whereas Tectonic is a single binary of about 20 Mb, and 50 Mb of files need to be downloaded to work with manim.
However, with this configuration I had some problems rendering the fraction lines, which disappear during the animation. So there may be some incompatibilities.
For example
I've seen the issue with the fraction lines in the context of xelatex-rendered files before; there might even be some issues about it. It might justify spending some time to see whether we can get this fixed.
I suppose it would also be sufficient if we implemented some fairly general and flexible customization options for setting the TeX compiler.
The disappearing fraction lines are caused when the resulting SVG file contains strokes instead of filled areas - as for regular rendered text and equations. A general solution would be to not generally set stroke_width=0 on the imported SVG, but to try to parse the SVG file more detailed - which also would solve a lot of Tikz related issues.
Description of proposed feature
Add support for using tectonic tex engine
Per project page, Tectonic is derived from Xelatex. It downloads the required files on demand, so the installation size is much smaller than a full Latex system.
For example, a typical Texlive installation on Linux is about 2.5 GB, whereas Tectonic is a single binary of about 20 Mb, and 50 Mb of files need to be downloaded to work with manim.
How can the new feature be used?
Additional comments
With this modification, I was able to get Manim to use Teconic.
However, with this configuration I had some problems rendering the fraction lines, which disappear during the animation. So there may be some incompatibilities.
For example
CauchyIntegralFormula.mp4
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