From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4BC8A814020000CC00026BC9@wlgw07.wlu.ca> 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> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:24:31 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Joel C. Salomon" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] TeX: hurrah! Topicbox-Message-UUID: 06daca3e-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Karljurgen Feuerherm w= rote: > It occurred to me that a profitable thing to do here would be to mention = some things that would be nice to see in a new improved TeX... I believe bi= directional was mentioned already. > > The other thing that is essential for folk like me is complete Unicode co= mpatibility [Yes, I know. UTC has committed many sins :] 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't expect the projects to use the rewrite in favor of the original libraries.) =E2=80=94Joel Salomon