[9fans] kerTeX and LaTeX: yes...

[9fans] kerTeX and LaTeX: yes...

[tlaronde]

So I have tested if the big version of tex provided by kerTeX can dump
the format for LaTeX.

The answer is yes. Nothing special here (at least for a 5 years old
version that was provided in the teTeX distributions I used before
kerTeX---I don't use LaTeX.)

I'm cleaning the things and writing the doc. And be prepared for the
chock!

You thought TeX was 1 Gigabytes to download? No, it's 12 megabytes
uncompressed, with 10 megabytes of Donald E. Knuth's sources. (A little
more than 5 megabytes compressed).

You thought you needed Blue Gene to compile ? No : C89 and less than 20
megabytes of free space. And 3 minutes to compile and install.

And you will learn how to ``mettre en oeuvre'' (put the software in a
state that you can begin making a work of art (``oeuvre'')) in only half
a page. The holy secret published and cried in the open...

And perhaps will you start diff'ing kerTeX against the current state.
Welcome to prog'napping! Welcome to mob programming! 25 years of hassle
when it could have been simple.

Bazaar vs cathedral? A test case...
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