From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 19:21:54 +0100 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20111202182154.GA5252@polynum.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: [9fans] troff book Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4c500466-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 01:13:37PM -0500, ?????? ??? wrote: > IMHO, for anything on the scale of a doctoral dissertation, a better solution would be to develop a native Plan 9 C port of TeX, METAFONT, and LaTeX for Plan 9 from Bell Labs. Troff is ill-suited for typesetting mathematics, as anyone who has tried to use troff to typeset formulas and equations of any complexity will readily attest. Hum? "a native Plan 9 C port of TeX, METAFONT etc." ---LaTeX is a set of macros, that's all, so is is usable with TeX...---is already done: http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C