andih/latex-w-fonts-light repository overview

⁠LaTeX with Fonts [LIGHT]

This is the lighter companion to latex-w-fonts, using 2 GB less space.

Size reduction is achieved by not installing the full TeX Live distribution (texlive-full) but only the base version (texlive-base) with individual additions. (See notes on lightness!)

As in latex-w-fonts, free fonts from to places are installed:

• Fonts from the Google Fonts repository⁠
• Fonts from Adobe's Github repositories⁠, hosting all Source fonts (Source Code Pro, Source Serif Pro, Source Sans Pro). Those are actually part of Google's font repository, but apparently a few are missing.

⁠Compiling LaTeX with Container

Your usual local LaTeX call needs to be prefixed to target the docker image. To handle user permissions correctly, I use

docker run --rm -i --user="$(id -u):$(id -g)" --net=none -v $PWD:/data andih/latex-w-fonts-light:latest latexmk -xelatex -shell-escape FILE.TEX

(The command is from blang/latex-docker⁠, who wrapped it into a handy shell script, dockercmd.sh⁠.)

⁠Notes on Lightness

The reduction in size with respect to to latex-w-fonts comes with a price: Some packages might not be installed. For example are basically all language packages missing.

If you find something missing, the reasonable solution is to use latx-w-fonts-light as a base (FROM) and expand it for your own needs. Let me know if you do this; I'm very much curious what you find is missing.