Global USE flags

Flag Description Packages
doc 11
luajittex Add support for LuaJitTeX: LuaTeX based on LuaJIT which is usually faster. 2
source 6
test 4

Category USE flags

app-text

Flag Description Packages
X 2
cjk 2
extra Install unsupported wrapper scripts, for example pdf90, pdfnup, pdfjoin 2
tk 2
xetex Add support for XeTeX macros (<pkg>dev-texlive/texlive-xetex</pkg>) 2

dev-tex

Flag Description Packages
examples 2

Local USE flags

app-text

texlive

Flag Description
context Add support for the ConTeXt format (<pkg>dev-texlive/texlive-context</pkg>)
games Add typesetting support for games (chess, etc.) (<pkg>dev-texlive/texlive-games</pkg>)
graphics Add support for several graphics packages (pgf, tikz,...)
humanities Add LaTeX support for the humanities (<pkg>dev-texlive/texlive-humanities</pkg>)
l10n_
luatex Install TeX Live packages that require luatex
metapost Add support for metapost: A tool for creating graphics in scalable PostScript
music Add support for music typesetting (<pkg>dev-texlive/texlive-music</pkg>)
pdfannotextractor Add <pkg>dev-tex/pdfannotextractor</pkg> support, for extracting annotations from PDF files
png
pstricks Add pstricks packages (<pkg>dev-texlive/texlive-pstricks</pkg>)
publishers Add support for publishers (<pkg>dev-texlive/texlive-publishers</pkg>)
science Add typesetting support for natural and computer sciences (<pkg>dev-texlive/texlive-mathscience</pkg>)
tex4ht Add support for <pkg>dev-tex/tex4ht</pkg> (for converting (La)TeX to (X)HTML, XML and OO.org)
texi2html Add support for <pkg>app-text/texi2html</pkg> which converts texi files to HTML
truetype
xml

texlive-core

Flag Description
xindy Add support for Xindy: A general-purpose index processor.

dev-libs

kpathsea

Flag Description
static-libs

ptexenc

Flag Description
iconv

dev-tex

biblatex

Flag Description
biber Install the unicode compatible backend processor

tex4ht

Flag Description
java