Command-line tool

texlive

brew/texlive

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Free software distribution for the TeX typesetting system

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install texlive

Linux

brew install texlive

Compile a DVI document

tex source.tex

Compile a DVI document, specifying an output directory

tex -output-directory=path/to/directory source.tex

Compile a DVI document, exiting on each error

tex -halt-on-error source.tex

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