Tectonic is an installer and runner for the Tectonic typesetter. Refer to the about page for more details.

Tectonic configuration

For profile configuration, see the Get Started guide.

There are several global configuration options for the tectonic application:

• :version - the expected tectonic version

• :version_check - whether to perform the version check or not. Disable when you manage the tectonic executable with an external tool (e.g. OS package manager). Defaults to true.

• :ensure_installed - whether to automatically install or not. Useful when the package is required by your application runtime. Defaults to true. Note: Requires version_check to be true.

• :cacerts_path - the directory to find certificates for https connections

• :path - the path to find the tectonic executable at. By default, it is automatically downloaded and placed inside the _build directory of your current app

Overriding the :path is not recommended, as we will automatically download and manage tectonic for you. But in case you can't download it (for example, GitHub behind a proxy), you may want to set the :path to a configurable system location.

Once you find the location of the executable, you can store it in a MIX_TECTONIC_PATH environment variable, which you can then read in your configuration file:

config :tectonic, path: System.get_env("MIX_TECTONIC_PATH")copy