texlive-formats-extra

TeX Live: Additional formats

Collected TeX `formats', i.e., large-scale macro packages designed to be dumped into .fmt files -- excluding the most common ones, such as latex and context, which have their own package(s). It also includes the Aleph engine and related Omega formats and packages, and the HiTeX engine and related.

texlive-metapost

TeX Live: MetaPost and Metafont packages

This package includes the following CTAN packages:

texlive-lang-cyrillic

TeX Live: Cyrillic

Support for Cyrillic scripts (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian), even if Latin alphabets may also be used.

texlive-lang-european

TeX Live: Other European languages

Support for a number of European languages; others (Greek, German, French, ...) have their own collections, depending simply on the size of the support.

texlive-lang-korean

TeX Live: Korean

Support for Korean; additional packages in collection-langcjk.

texlive-lang-other

TeX Live: Other languages

Support for languages not otherwise listed, including Indic, Thai, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Indonesian, African languages, and plenty more. The split is made simply on the basis of the size of the support, to keep both collection sizes and the number of collections reasonable.