On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:29 AM, <tlaro...@polynum.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:16:26AM -0800, ron minnich wrote: >>[...] >> tex/latex, once clean and small, are now a beast, > > Uh! There are days when I wonder why I have done kerTeX... (well, I know > why: because _I_ use it!). Do you know that kerTeX has everything, > including BibTeX (hell to fix!) and can "do" LaTeX and also AMSTeX and > "Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des Sciences" (based on LaTeX) and so on. > > And it is small since I have sent 99% of the crap to the biggest storage > till now and forever: /dev/null.
kerTeX is awesome! Anybody doing typesetting on Plan 9 (or even on Linux/*BSD) should try grab it. > There was even a bunch of connections last week because somebody was > looking for TeX on phones... (I don't know why, but the community marvel > named TeXlive didn't seem to be the first choice in this case...) > Ah, I think that was due to me... I read http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264341 and suggested that they take a look at kerTeX :) John
