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Subject: Re: [9fans] TeX: hurrah!
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On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 07:46:08PM +0200, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote:
> One question. Anyone tried get LaTeX on this TeX port?
> What are the missing pieces to make it run on it?

I will release/publish the things on Monday I think.

In theory, if LaTeX is still a set of macros, it should work with it,
following this process (it will be put in the README) :

1)
# Dump latex.tex (whether cd to the directory where latex.tex is, or
# put latex.tex in TEXINPUTS search paths):
#
cat <<EOT | initex
\input latex
\dump
EOT

2)
# Put the dump (latex.fmt) in the directory where TeX looks for
# dumps (in kerTeX : /$objtype/lib/tex/dump/).
#
mv latex.fmt /$objtype/lib/tex/dump/

3)
# Call an instance of virtex : latex, so that looking to argv[0], it
# loads the corresponding dump:
#
cd /$objtype/bin
cp virtex latex

and you will be done... as long as what LaTeX calls is found: other
macros (set env TEXINPUTS with the ':' separated directories) and TFM
(TEXFONTS).

By default, a BIG TeX is generated, that is a binary with extended size
tables and so on. If when dumping a package---say LaTeX---it moans
"capacity exceeded", I need to adjust/increase the values in the change
file.
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