How To Install texlive-unitipa on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-unitipa in Fedora 36. texlive-unitipa is TIPA typefaces with Unicode characters as input

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-unitipa on Fedora 36.

What is `texlive-unitipa`

This package converts Unicode characters into TIPA commands, which gives us tipa typefaces without learning the actual commands. This package needs LuaLaTeX as the compiler for correctly typesetting the IPA diacritics. If used with the global option nodiacritics, it can be compiled with other TeX engines, too, but no IPA diacritics will be printed. TIPA was designed to match with the Computer Modern design, no other IPA font matches with traditional LaTeX fonts. This package is helpful for obtaining the beautiful tipa shapes with Unicode characters as input. It is assumed that the user knows how to type IPA Unicode.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-unitipa on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-unitipa.

Install texlive-unitipa on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-unitipa using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-unitipa

Install texlive-unitipa on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-unitipa using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-unitipa

How To Uninstall texlive-unitipa on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the texlive-unitipa package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-unitipa

texlive-unitipa Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-unitipa
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-unitipa/lppl1.3c.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/lualatex/unitipa
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/lualatex/unitipa/README.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/lualatex/unitipa/unitipa.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/lualatex/unitipa
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/lualatex/unitipa/unitipa.sty

References

texlive-unitipa website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-unitipa on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).