From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] anyone attempted to build ghostscript recently?
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 20:34:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130503183446.GA884@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEAzY3_9pRiRFuNv_wONkNcZBBYB1ZgsGPAym-+aFaM3_1URkA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 08:10:26PM +0200, Aram H?v?rneanu wrote:
> > But in this case, there are
> > probably online PDF viewers...
>
> But no Plan 9 browsers.
Yes... But this is also why, concurrently, work has to be done to get
rid of some unnecessities: that documents produced on Plan9 be viewable
on Plan9 with only Plan9 means (external documents are another problem).
And this is why I prefer TeX other *roff: not because of some religious
war; but because TeX is a whole system, including fonts and mean to
make them, and there is a shortest path to full autonomy. (And this is
why kerTeX will still produce DVI, even with extensions, and not
directly PDF.)
What would be fun would be a... PDF to DVI converter (because it will
mean a huge part of "dropping" features---/dev/null is something I can
not do without.)
--
Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-03 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-03 14:18 Steve Simon
2013-05-03 14:22 ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-03 14:34 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-05-03 15:53 ` David du Colombier
2013-05-03 20:08 ` Steve Simon
2013-05-04 7:43 ` tlaronde
2013-05-03 16:20 ` tlaronde
2013-05-03 16:26 ` a
2013-05-03 16:48 ` tlaronde
2013-05-03 17:14 ` Jack Johnson
2013-05-03 17:16 ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-03 17:24 ` pmarin
2013-05-03 17:27 ` Jeff Sickel
2013-05-03 17:50 ` tlaronde
2013-05-03 18:10 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2013-05-03 18:34 ` tlaronde [this message]
2013-05-03 18:38 ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-03 18:53 ` Jack Johnson
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