Re: Docker containers: separate LaTeX and XeTeX ones?

Subject: Re: Docker containers: separate LaTeX and XeTeX ones?

From: David G <..hidden..>

Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 16:02:53 +0800

Hi Erik,

My opinion is that as long as we can show a good set of LaTeX example templates that use UTF8 we probably only need to offer standard LaTeX.

If an XeTex install is required, I'd suggest we simply provision a "thin" container that builds on top of the standard one.
I don't know if we even need to provide that as a separate build, perhaps just a script that can be run on the host to do the build?

As long as standard LaTeX correctly handles UTF8, I honestly believe we should be encouraging it's use and eventually dropping specific support for XeLaTeX
I'm not suggesting make it impossible to use XeLaTeX, but simply (in the long term) don't support it "config free", rather have a config option that specifies the latex tool to execute. Then It's up to the sysadmin to specifically switch both the templates and processing backend if they REALLY want to.

Regards
David G

On 22/06/17 04:38, Erik Huelsmann wrote:

Hi,

Over the past weeks, I've been reducing the size of our Docker containers considerably (from 1GB+ to the current size of 229MB for the 1.5 container ob Docker hub).

The next step to make the container smaller, would be to create two types of containers: one with latex, the other with xetex. The difference being that xetex (used to) handle(s) UTF-8 better than LaTeX.

Do we want to continue this push for a smaller container, making users choose one or the other upfront, requiring them to switch to the other to evaluate? Or do we keep things simple and allow users to switch between the various options?

Regards,

Erik
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