From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:46:54 +0200 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20140813134654.GB434@polynum.com> References: <1179414908.1374571.1407927433550.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail06.arcor-online.net> <670664978.1376161.1407932171630.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail06.arcor-online.net> 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] Many bugs in eqn(1) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0f81d12a-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 03:13:38PM +0200, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > > Just to be sure. I don't mean readability of documents to be typeset. > I mean the source code of the whole system. I.e., in the case of LaTeX, > the readability/understanding/hackability of the macros' definitions. > And this links to another thread: the base plainTeX system, with fonts, is 8Mo; with the AMS this may reach 16Mo. With LaTeX and al. (I don't use, but others do and I need to test somewhat), the whole thing reach 250Mo. PlainTeX is not a litteracy exercice, sure, but is documented and small. And riding piggyback on plainTeX, I'm mainly covering my needs. And I decided to use plainTeX whan I saw that there were less pages, written by the author: D.E. Knuth to explain fully how to use and program TeX, than pages trying partly to explain how to use LaTeX without attempting to explain how TeX was working underneath. And if one doesn't understand TeX, one is unlikely to even have a clue about why the LaTeX macros do not do what one supposed them to do... -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ http://www.renaissance-francaise.fr/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C