On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Steve Simon<st...@quintile.net> wrote: > TeX is available seperately - created a contrib package for it or > there is an iso (which has bitrotted a little but is still usable). > Beware: downloading it will take a long time (hours).
The last time this came up, I did some research into the dependencies of the newer TeX engines (XeTeX, pdfTex, luaTeX). Seems they all depend on a PDF-manipulation library written in C++. But so long as you stick to the tex | dvips | ghostscript route, there's some really nice stuff that's been done in the last ten years in TeX that can be ported to Plan 9. —Joel