From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 11:35:38 +0200 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20180616093538.GA575@polynum.com> References: <9bbf9f381f7a0d8fe3b294fb6747e010@quintile.net> <20180614174547.GA12692@x240.dreamland> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for? Topicbox-Message-UUID: d7e1e34e-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 04:58:35PM -0700, Iruat=E3 Souza wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Mark van Atten wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Mart Zirnask = wrote: > > > >> I'm a part-time writer and radio producer with no CS background, so = I > >> even use this machine for producing 1-hour radio shows for Estonian > >> Public Broadcasting. (Thank you, Non Daw!: http://non.tuxfamily.org)= . > >> > >> I just love the "zen" of sam (and, occasionally, Acme) as a writing > >> tool. Also, the idea of "everything is a file" kind of grows on you, > >> intellectually. > > > > I'm a philosopher and use sam and acme every day to write papers > > in LaTeX. > > > > With his KerTeX project, Thierry Laronde has done, and is doing, grea= t > > work for TeX on Plan 9. > > It would be great to have LuaTeX as well. > > >=20 > Did you (or Thierry) tried running LuaTeX? I have "ported" lua ages > ago to Plan 9 and it was pretty easy, but I know nothing about LuaTex > internals or the relation between both. I personnaly have not tried. The main problem are the dependencies. If it= depends only on C and WEB, it should be easy. If secondary dependencies (like generating PDF instead of DVI) draw C++ libraries in the way... FWIW, at the moment I think that, if I put aside the conversion to utf-8 as input (with dir of 256 glyphes fonts), the main lack is the inability to display the result without depending on gs(1). So I'd like to have, for the different OSes, a rendering of the DVI. Then extend DVI so that it supports the primitives needed by MetaPOST (leading to a MetaDVI). And= then a front end for a dvi2x driver. This does not mean that I exclude LuaTeX per se. I have to see and I have to find slots of time (and to try to fit a task in the actual slots so that "something" is finished---I have already several things kerTeX related started but none finished...). Best, --=20 Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ http://www.sbfa.fr/ Key fingerprint =3D 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C