Re: [9fans] Porting XeTeX

["Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>]

> 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.

don't waste your time unless there is something
about the current tex installation that doesn't

the only thing i can think of that current tex's can
do that the plan 9 tex can't is generate pdf with
hyperlinks.  unless you care a lot about this feature
(or some other), you're wasting your time.
the tex world doesn't exactly move quickly,
and the tex port (done in 1999, i think) incorporates
the last major revisions to latex.

next we're going to hear that since sam hasn't been
updated in about 10 years, it doesn't work too well
anymore, so it's time to port a "modern" editor like vim.

russ