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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:28:45 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Porting XeTeX
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> I'm asking mainly because of Plan 9, a UNIX-like OS with a C compiler
> (but no C++) to which the freetype library has been ported.  There's
> an old port of TeX that doesn't work too well anymore, so there's been
> some talk about porting a modern TeX.  (LuaTeX requires C++ for the
> PDF library it uses, so that's out for now.)

what do you mean "doesn't work too well anymore"?  i haven't noticed anything
going broken.

- erik