Re: [9fans] TeX - Plan 9 model

["Hongzheng Wang" <wanghz@gmail.com>]

It may be difficult.  XeTeX needs a fonts management layer to handle
Truetype/Opentype fonts, such as fontconfig in Linux.
I am not sure if there is such a library in Plan9.

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Paweł Lasek <pawel.lasek@gmail.com> wrote:
> That might be an interesting case for Plan 9 GCC port - May I also
>  suggest XeTeX? I didn't check it fully, but it directly uses
>  TrueType/OpenType fonts. Unfortunately, it outputs only PDF or it's
>  own internal xdvi format (incompatible with normal dvi).
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>  On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com> wrote:
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>  > > I'd highly recommend going the pdftex route instead http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/)
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>  >  Except the PDF library they're using is written in C++.  I found that
>  >  out when I was looking into porting luatex (which is pdftex with lua
>  >  scripting so it can support Unicode & OpenType fonts).
>  >
>  >  --Joel
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>  Paul Lasek
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HZ