Re: [9fans] TeX: hurrah!

[James Chapman <james@cs.ioc.ee>]

There is also pdftex. This is part of texlive and provides pdflatex. I
think texlive and pdftex are more popular/de-facto standard but this
is only from personal experience.

Also, it would be very nice to see some performance comparison between
tex on plan9 and tex on some other platform.

Is it fast enough to use comfortably typeset large documents? E.g. how
long does it take to spit out a dvi of the errata for volume 2 of
TAOCP (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html)?

James

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Karljurgen Feuerherm <kfeuerherm@wlu.ca> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm aware of XeTeX (I had mentioned XeLaTeX in an earlier thread), and
> yes, I understand one wouldn't be looking for identity with what other
> platforms support. I agree that one shouldn't be looking to ape, but
> rather to provide the same or more functionality in a better way.
> Perhaps I'll be able to help with that in due course.
>
> K
>
>>>> "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> 18/04/2010 12:24 am >>>
>
> 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.)
>
> —Joel Salomon
>
>
>