You can typeset from a one page letter to books that are hundreds of pages long with TeX in Termux on your Android smartphone!

The LaTeX/PDF version of ‘Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality’ and this textbook are two examples of wonderful books you can compile on a smartphone today. If you are a beginner, or advanced user of LaTeX ‘Material for UK-TUG’s LaTeX for Beginners Course’ is available here.

Install TexLive with packages install texlive or apt install texlive.

After running 🏃 tlmgr install scheme-full which installs ~2500MB of typsetting goodies! You will find you can typeset from a one page letter to books hundreds of pages long with TeX in Termux on a smartphone in various languages and formats.

There are missing programs from Texlive #966 in Termux. Can you help with enabling these programs on your tablet or smartphone? Then please contribute.

When you press the volumeDown+power buttons simultaneously on a smartphone, it takes a screenshot like this one of the source code for this page in vim running in Termux on Android.

Screenshot

This animation was created with imagemagick in Termux on an Android smartphone.

Screenshot Animation

If you’re confused by this page try this link, or you might want to try this one. Post your what you have found at the wiki for this website and donate to let sdrausty.github.io grow.

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