From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <4BCAC69C020000CC00026E4F@wlgw07.wlu.ca> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:45:16 -0400 From: "Karljurgen Feuerherm" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> References: <20100416115756.GA1107@polynum.com> <4BC855DF020000CC00026A46@wlgw07.wlu.ca> <004001cadd84$7254c4a0$56fe4de0$@gmail.com> <000301cadd8e$0dd7c720$29875560$@gmail.com> <4BC870C8020000CC00026AD9@wlgw07.wlu.ca> <4BC87A44020000CC00026B30@wlgw07.wlu.ca> <4BC8A814020000CC00026BC9@wlgw07.wlu.ca> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] TeX: hurrah! Topicbox-Message-UUID: 070e71ea-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi I=27m aware of XeTeX (I had mentioned XeLaTeX in an earlier thread), and yes, I understand one wouldn=27t be looking for identity with what other platforms support. I agree that one shouldn=27t be looking to ape, but rather to provide the same or more functionality in a better way. Perhaps I=27ll be able to help with that in due course. K >>> =22Joel C. Salomon=22 18/04/2010 12:24 am = >>> There are a few projects (in the TeX world) for that, primarily XeTeX and Omega. Omega is not much in use anymore, but its ideas live on in LuaTeX. The lack of C++ is going to hinder efforts to port these projects to Plan 9 as-is; and these are significant efforts, not likely to be duplicated by 9fans. (Perhaps the C++ library for PDF handling can be rewritten in C, and then XeTeX & LuaTeX can be ported. But don=27t expect the projects to use the rewrite in favor of the original libraries.) =E2=80=94Joel Salomon