From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20111202182924.GB5252@polynum.com> References: <20111202182924.GB5252@polynum.com> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 10:45:24 -0800 Message-ID: From: John Floren To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] troff book Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4c640a74-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:29 AM, 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'Acad=E9mie 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=3D3264341 and suggested that they take a look at kerTeX :) John