From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <90873724bc8f4da51b58f24fbca6ef58@quintile.net> References: <90873724bc8f4da51b58f24fbca6ef58@quintile.net> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:30:49 -0800 Message-ID: <13426df10912081430u2e707edfje4c253fc8c4c0028@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] tex Topicbox-Message-UUID: acce6be0-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > somone was working on a modern port of TeX to plan9. > did this work out? I would like to update my installation > as I think I may be using LaTeX before long. I gave it a go but it wore me out. The pdflatex guys just destroyed latex portability, and tex overall is far less portable than it was years ago. It's a sad story. ron