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The very bare minimum of latex to compile documents

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I'm creating a relatively small console program which will be used by some other people as well. As part of its output it will be creating a tex file which will contain some two tables, a few rows of text and one plot. Not, my program is pretty small - under a Mb. The problem is I can't count on my…

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You could try one of the obsolete MSDOS distributions. Some of them are pretty small, like the base emtex (plus its fonts). From 1998. Installation is documented in Norm Walsh's Making TeX Work, which is even more obsolete, from 1994, but it should …

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