From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 20:34:46 +0200 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20130503183446.GA884@polynum.com> References: <64e57b5cc889082953a7f022f534b833@quintile.net> <20130503162039.GA557@polynum.com> <510fc921748adc6e0cd271e0c60d56cb@9srv.net> <20130503164804.GA649@polynum.com> <20130503175006.GA484@polynum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] anyone attempted to build ghostscript recently? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 551114d6-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C