From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tlaronde@polynum.com Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:25:03 +0200 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20100418132503.GA22758@polynum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: [9fans] kerTeX and LaTeX: yes... Topicbox-Message-UUID: 07218d70-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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... -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C