From: John Floren <john@jfloren.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] troff book
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 10:45:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL4LZyj-0Vq6-FKVDU3zyqCRAQe5SPmt=dQ_WTS-cC_J0JMg0Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111202182924.GB5252@polynum.com>
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:29 AM, <tlaronde@polynum.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:16:26AM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
>>[...]
>> tex/latex, once clean and small, are now a beast,
>
> Uh! There are days when I wonder why I have done kerTeX... (well, I know
> why: because _I_ use it!). Do you know that kerTeX has everything,
> including BibTeX (hell to fix!) and can "do" LaTeX and also AMSTeX and
> "Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des Sciences" (based on LaTeX) and so on.
>
> And it is small since I have sent 99% of the crap to the biggest storage
> till now and forever: /dev/null.
kerTeX is awesome! Anybody doing typesetting on Plan 9 (or even on
Linux/*BSD) should try grab it.
> There was even a bunch of connections last week because somebody was
> looking for TeX on phones... (I don't know why, but the community marvel
> named TeXlive didn't seem to be the first choice in this case...)
>
Ah, I think that was due to me... I read
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264341 and suggested that they
take a look at kerTeX :)
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-02 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-02 13:02 hugo rivera
2011-12-02 13:15 ` simon softnet
2011-12-02 13:23 ` Aharon Robbins
2011-12-02 13:33 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
2011-12-02 13:40 ` Steve Simon
2011-12-02 16:08 ` hugo rivera
2011-12-02 17:54 ` John Floren
2011-12-02 18:00 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-12-02 18:13 ` Австин Ким
2011-12-02 18:21 ` tlaronde
2011-12-02 18:16 ` ron minnich
2011-12-02 18:20 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-12-02 18:29 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-12-02 18:29 ` tlaronde
2011-12-02 18:45 ` John Floren [this message]
2011-12-02 21:02 ` tlaronde
2011-12-02 22:24 ` simon softnet
2011-12-02 22:29 ` simon softnet
2011-12-02 22:42 ` hugo rivera
2011-12-03 1:26 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-12-11 22:57 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
2011-12-12 9:15 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-12-12 9:59 ` simon softnet
2011-12-12 10:28 ` John Stalker
2011-12-12 10:52 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-12-12 12:04 ` John Stalker
2011-12-12 12:37 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 12:18 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-12-12 12:42 ` John Stalker
2011-12-12 14:10 ` Michael Kerpan
2011-12-12 17:46 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 17:48 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 18:42 ` tlaronde
2011-12-12 19:22 ` Bakul Shah
2011-12-12 19:45 ` Steve Simon
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