texlive-standalone 2025.2

Compile TeX pictures stand-alone or as part of a document

This package provides a class and package is provided which allows TeX pictures or other TeX code to be compiled standalone or as part of a main document. Special support for pictures with beamer overlays is also provided. The package is used in the main document and skips extra preambles in sub-files. The class may be used to simplify the preamble in sub-files. By default the preview package is used to display the typeset code without margins.

Outputs: doc, out
Website: https://ctan.org/pkg/standalone
Licenses: LPPL 1.3+
Package source: gnu/packages/tex.scm
Builds: See build status
Issues: See known issues

Installation

Install texlive-standalone 2025.2 as follows:

guix install texlive-standalone@2025.2

Or install the latest version:

guix install texlive-standalone

The texlive-standalone package provides more outputs besides the default (out). You can install them by appending :output-name to the package specification. For example:

guix install texlive-standalone:doc

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.