From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <9bbf9f381f7a0d8fe3b294fb6747e010@quintile.net> <20180614174547.GA12692@x240.dreamland> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Iruat=C3=A3_Souza?= Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:58:35 -0700 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for? Topicbox-Message-UUID: d7dd7cf0-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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, great > work for TeX on Plan 9. > It would be great to have LuaTeX as well. > 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.