# leoliu0/ratex

> A self-contained pure-Rust TeX engine and typesetting toolchain: compiles LaTeX documents without a TeX Live install, with millisecond incremental builds and embedded BibTeX.

- Magnitude: 0.7 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 174 total · +2 stars on 2026-10-02 (UTC)
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Rust · Created: 2026-09-16 · Last push: 2026-10-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/leoliu0/ratex · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/leoliu0/ratex

## Useful for

- Compile a LaTeX document to PDF without installing TeX Live
- Set up instant paper rebuilds in VS Code or TeXstudio
- Diff two paper revisions with the built-in latexdiff

## Why it’s here

- 2 stars today.
- The repository is 16 days old and already has 174 stars.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @mbrukman (392 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 3
- Issues and pull requests: 18
- Watchers: 2
- Average over the last week: 1 per day
- Usual pace: 10 per day
- Latest release: v0.4.7 (2026-10-02)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-05 … 2026-11-03: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-19 4.1, 09-20 4.5, 09-21 3.4, 09-22 2.0, 09-23 1.4, 09-24 1.2, 09-25 1.0, 09-26 0.9, 09-27 0.8, 09-28 0.9, 09-29 0.6, 09-30 0.3, 10-01 0.5, 10-02 0.8

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-02 23:49 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.