On Sun Feb 21, 2021 at 18:19 CET, Patrick wrote: > My problem with the TeX code base was that TeX is mainly spaghetti code > (once untangled) and has many places where one would rather use Go code > instead of the 'hacks' DEK has used to ensure compatibility (for example the > ASCII input/output). So it is really hard to follow the code. > > And from there it is still only possible to read / write 8bit TFM/DVI. > So a more modern approach would be to translate LuaTeX or PDFTeX, > but this aint easy either.
right. it's also (at least for LuaTeX) not written in a BSD friendly license. I agree, it's a long journey. -s -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/jgsCSxMVH2hYHbuz8jdiJxNQsFl2wpbcVORkz8TVi8%40cp7-web-039.plabs.ch.
