Re: [go-nuts] Re: [ANN] star-tex: a Go engine for TeX

2021-02-21 Thread Sebastien Binet
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).

Re: [go-nuts] Re: [ANN] star-tex: a Go engine for TeX

2021-02-21 Thread Patrick
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

Re: [go-nuts] Re: [ANN] star-tex: a Go engine for TeX

2021-02-21 Thread Sebastien Binet
On Sun Feb 21, 2021 at 17:46 CET, Patrick wrote: > Hi Sebastien, > > that was a manual translation of the web file. > My plan was to do more than that, ... TeX is such a beast. yeah... "how hard would it be to translate ~20k lines of C/C++ code (or 6k lines of obfuscated Pascal code) into a set

Re: [go-nuts] Re: [ANN] star-tex: a Go engine for TeX

2021-02-21 Thread Patrick
Hi Sebastien, that was a manual translation of the web file. My plan was to do more than that, ... TeX is such a beast. Patrick -- 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,

Re: [go-nuts] Re: [ANN] star-tex: a Go engine for TeX

2021-02-21 Thread Sebastien Binet
Hi Patrick, Nice! Did you manually translated it or was it done with some tooling? -s Original Message On Feb 21, 2021, 07:43, Patrick < std...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Sebastien, a few years ago I started with dvitype https://github.com/speedata/gotex Patrick Sebastien Binet

[go-nuts] Re: [ANN] star-tex: a Go engine for TeX

2021-02-20 Thread Patrick
Hi Sebastien, a few years ago I started with dvitype https://github.com/speedata/gotex Patrick Sebastien Binet schrieb am Dienstag, 16. Februar 2021 um 15:23:41 UTC+1: > hi there, > > I'd like to introduce star-tex[1], a (Work In Progress) TeX engine. > > it wraps the output of the official