Peter Williams

Very interesting discussion and great work on this topic! I'm afraid that I just don't have the hours in the day to help solve this problem, but if you have...

My guess is that the best fix will be to upgrade to the soon-to-be-released next version of Tectonic that will bump us up to TeXLive 2021.3! I will try to...

OK, well, the upgrade to TeXLive 2022.0 should happen much faster since the diffs are comparatively small and lots of good infrastructure is now in place, and maybe that will...

@MTRNord Do you mean that there is an even newer version of biber that requires a newer version of the biblatex package? I don't anticipate upgrading Tectonic's built-in biblatex until...

Thanks for confirming @mnrvwl . I'm not familiar with biber/biblatex (as is probably quite clear by now). Does anyone know what the maintainers of those tools generally recommend that people...

Thanks for the detailed rundown! I guess my initial feeling is that we should at least make sure that people have a straightforward recipe to set themselves up with an...

Some broader commentary: the issue here is a subset of the quip that "all software evolves to eventually include a package manager". While I would like Tectonic to avoid external...

Thanks for reporting. And, yes, ideally we would fix this by updating to TL2021. Depending on how much of an effort that is (see tectonic-typesetting/tectonic-staging#17) and how urgent the bugs...

Yeah, the short answer is that it would be a big ol' adventure to switch from XeTeX and I personally am really not eager to undertake it at this time....

Yes, I find `pdfcrop` to be a very useful tool, and I've often wished I could install it in a more standalone fashion. That being said, Tectonic's PDF manipulation code...