From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100426082945.GA12445@polynum.com> References: <20100426082945.GA12445@polynum.com> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:47:50 -0400 Message-ID: From: John Floren To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] TeX: need feedback Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0e75db3a-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:29 AM, wrote: > Hello, > > For the moment, I had only one feedback from James Chapman (OK once the > trailing space in $(uname) result was handled. > > I would like to have more, specially on two points: > > 1) Non i386 arch. > > 2) LaTeX OK. > > The time to finish cleaning and adapting dvips(1) in kerTeX, if you have > a working one, there should be strictly no problem to convert a dvi > produced by kerTeX to a postscript with an "alien" dvips(1). > > I have made so that, except for man pages, kerTeX is installed aside and > should not wreak havoc an existing *TeX installation. (The man pages > will overwrite existing ones; but if these are current Web2c, since they > redirect to texinfo, it is not a loss, but a gain...) > > Schedule is dvips(1) in first half of May---I must go back intensively > on "program-to-get-money-to-be-able-to-eat" for now. TeX installed ok, but I couldn't get LaTeX installed; I attempted to follow the instructions in your README, but there was no indication that anything actually worked. Have you installed it on a Plan 9 system? The instructions seemed a lot more Linux-oriented than Plan 9. John