Re: TeX

Re: TeX

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

> Based on the man pages, it looks like 2ed shipped with it:

Oh, it might have.  Two decades ago ... my memory is a bit fuzzy.

I have the 2ed sources, but they are on an ATA disk that stopped spinning 
up a few years ago, so I can't check.

But 20 years later, there is no TeX, so the manpages should be updated.

Re: [9front] Re: TeX

[Steve Simon]

why mot have tex(1) manpage which states that rex is not included by default but gives a weblink for a recommended  tex package, e.g. kertex, which is tested on an9.

this manpage would then be overwritten by the tex installation.

everyone happy (unlikely)

-Steve


On 14 Feb 2018, at 01:59, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:

>> Based on the man pages, it looks like 2ed shipped with it:
> 
> Oh, it might have.  Two decades ago ... my memory is a bit fuzzy.
> 
> I have the 2ed sources, but they are on an ATA disk that stopped spinning up a few years ago, so I can't check.
> 
> But 20 years later, there is no TeX, so the manpages should be updated.

Re: [9front] Re: TeX

[Matthew Veety]

On Wednesday, February 14, 2018 09:15:25 Steve Simon wrote:
> why mot have tex(1) manpage which states that rex is not included by default
> but gives a weblink for a recommended  tex package, e.g. kertex, which is
> tested on an9.
> 
> this manpage would then be overwritten by the tex installation.
> 
> everyone happy (unlikely)
> 
> -Steve

If someone makes a port for some TeX package that does this I would be okay 
with it. Knowing that certainly won't happen unless I do it, the references 
really just should be nuked. If a package doesn't ship with 9front it 
shouldn't be in they system's manpages.

-- 
Veety

Re: [9front] Re: TeX

[Steve Simon]

but someone did, kertex!


> On 18 Feb 2018, at 06:55, Matthew Veety <mveety@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday, February 14, 2018 09:15:25 Steve Simon wrote:
>> why mot have tex(1) manpage which states that rex is not included by default
>> but gives a weblink for a recommended  tex package, e.g. kertex, which is
>> tested on an9.
>> 
>> this manpage would then be overwritten by the tex installation.
>> 
>> everyone happy (unlikely)
>> 
>> -Steve
> 
> If someone makes a port for some TeX package that does this I would be okay 
> with it. Knowing that certainly won't happen unless I do it, the references 
> really just should be nuked. If a package doesn't ship with 9front it 
> shouldn't be in they system's manpages.
> 
> -- 
> Veety

Re: [9front] Re: TeX

[Sean Hinchee]

I started this mess and I'm sorry for that. Although it's not perfect, I 
took the package kurt linked (tex.iso.bz2) and have adjusted the build a 
bit and it is now stuffed in ports. Like steve said, there is also kertex.

Cheers,
Sean


On 02/18/2018 06:04 AM, Steve Simon wrote:
> but someone did, kertex!
> 
> 
>> On 18 Feb 2018, at 06:55, Matthew Veety <mveety@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, February 14, 2018 09:15:25 Steve Simon wrote:
>>> why mot have tex(1) manpage which states that rex is not included by default
>>> but gives a weblink for a recommended  tex package, e.g. kertex, which is
>>> tested on an9.
>>>
>>> this manpage would then be overwritten by the tex installation.
>>>
>>> everyone happy (unlikely)
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>
>> If someone makes a port for some TeX package that does this I would be okay
>> with it. Knowing that certainly won't happen unless I do it, the references
>> really just should be nuked. If a package doesn't ship with 9front it
>> shouldn't be in they system's manpages.
>>
>> -- 
>> Veety
> 

Re: [9front] Re: TeX

[Matthew Veety]

On Sunday, February 18, 2018 12:04:13 Steve Simon wrote:
> but someone did, kertex!
> 
> > On 18 Feb 2018, at 06:55, Matthew Veety <mveety@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, February 14, 2018 09:15:25 Steve Simon wrote:
> >> why mot have tex(1) manpage which states that rex is not included by
> >> default but gives a weblink for a recommended  tex package, e.g. kertex,
> >> which is tested on an9.
> >> 
> >> this manpage would then be overwritten by the tex installation.
> >> 
> >> everyone happy (unlikely)
> >> 
> >> -Steve
> > 
> > If someone makes a port for some TeX package that does this I would be
> > okay
> > with it. Knowing that certainly won't happen unless I do it, the
> > references
> > really just should be nuked. If a package doesn't ship with 9front it
> > shouldn't be in they system's manpages.

I mean added to the ports tree.

-- 
Veety

Re: [9front] Re: TeX

[hiro]

> Knowing that certainly won't happen unless I do it

What entitles you to think that?

Re: [9front] Re: TeX

[Steve Simon]

do i need some form of entitlement to think?

i always regarded myself as empowered to think anything i like, by virtue of my existence as a sentient being.. 

unless you are telling me this is all a nightmare, and in the real world plan9 is the dominant operating system, following linus and bill’s acceptance of its clear superiority.

who knows, existentialism is hard to disprove.

-Steve


On 18 Feb 2018, at 14:12, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Knowing that certainly won't happen unless I do it
> 
> What entitles you to think that?