texlive-latex-base

TeX Live: LaTeX fundamental packages

These packages are either mandated by the core LaTeX team, or very widely used and strongly recommended in practice.

texlive-lang-cjk

TeX Live: Chinese/Japanese/Korean (base)

Packages supporting a combination of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, including macros, fonts, documentation. Also Thai in the c90 encoding, since there is some overlap in those fonts; standard Thai support is in collection-langother. Additional packages for CJK are in their individual language collections.

psf-unifont

PSF (console) version of GNU Unifont with APL support

This contains a PSF font (Unifont-APL8x16.psf) as a console frame buffer font with a subset of Unifont for use with GNU APL and other APL implementations. The font is installed in "/usr/share/consolefonts/". This PSF font is only suitable for running in console mode, not under the X Window System.

extractpdfmark

Extract page mode and named destinations as PDFmark from PDF

When you create a PDF document using a TeX system, you may include many small PDF files in the main PDF file. It is common for each of those files to use the same fonts.

texlive-xetex

TeX Live: XeTeX and packages

Packages for XeTeX, the Unicode/OpenType-enabled TeX by Jonathan Kew. See https://tug.org/xetex.

texlive-games

TeX Live: Games typesetting

Setups for typesetting various games, including chess.