On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 7:08 PM jdh wrote: > > texi2pdf and texi2dvi which are in the texinfo debian package require a > 'tex' binary program to run. > > I'd prefer to not have to install all of texlive just to get it. > > Is there any tex binary in the standalone lmtx system? > > If not are there any recommendations to install it? > Regrettably, you need a bunch of the things that will be in texlive in order to use it. Tex, but no macro collections? Oops, no good. Tex, but no font definitions? Oops, no good. I expect the list of "Tex, but no ? Oops, no good" items continues from there. Macro collections and fonts leap to mind immediately, but I'm sure that's not all :-( There may be something smaller than texlive; it looks like MiKTeX might be a possibility. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"