> On Sunday, September 14, 2014 11:26 PM, C Y <smustude...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
>
>
>> On Sunday, September 14, 2014 10:49 PM,
> "d...@axiom-developer.org" <d...@axiom-developer.org> wrote:
>
>> > Camm,
>>
>> GCL is not the problem with a solaris port.
>>
>> Solaris does not include texlive support (for free anyway). So Axiom
>> would have to be adjusted to build without using TeX. While that is
>> technically possible it goes against the project goals.
>
> For what it's worth...
>
> I took a stab at taking texlive and trying to boil out a "minimalist"
> or "modular" subset that would be easier to understand and support - I
> got as far as producing a basic TeX executable, but (from what I remember) I
> stalled out (hopefully temporarily) when I realized a lot of shell scripts
> needed to be converted to something more portable (probably C++ - one of the
> goals is to be able to just build and run on Windows...). The goals of that
> effort are a bit different from Axiom's in terms of portability (CMake is
> used quite a bit) but perhaps the work there might be helpful as a starting
> point for making some kind of "portable, minimalist TeX" to support
> Axiom's needs...
>
> What has been done so far is at https://github.com/starseeker/ModTeX if it's
> of any help/interest. Of course, if the goal is to have the whole system in
> lisp cl-typesetting might be a more logical starting point, although it looks
> the "current" code for that on their website was last updated in
> 2006... I suppose the purest way to go would be to implement the necessary
> TeX
> pieces in Lisp directly, but at that level of effort it starts to make sense
> to
> just require texlive and focus on more important things.
>
> Cheers,
> CY
Ah, correction - looks like cl-typesetting (and cl-pdf) ended up living on
github:
https://github.com/mbattyani/cl-typesetting
https://github.com/mbattyani/cl-pdf
Even better, he's switched to a 2-clause BSD license (no advertising
requirement).
Hmm. Now I have a dilemma. That license is excellent, and it's all in Lisp...
wonder what it would take to get it to support TeX/LaTeX.
CY
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