On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Karljurgen Feuerherm <kfeuerh...@wlu.ca> wrote: > It occurred to me that a profitable thing to do here would be to mention some > things that would be nice to see in a new improved TeX... I believe > bidirectional was mentioned already. > > The other thing that is essential for folk like me is complete Unicode > compatibility [Yes, I know. UTC has committed many sins :]
There are a few projects (in the TeX world) for that, primarily XeTeX and Omega. Omega is not much in use anymore, but its ideas live on in LuaTeX. The lack of C++ is going to hinder efforts to port these projects to Plan 9 as-is; and these are significant efforts, not likely to be duplicated by 9fans. (Perhaps the C++ library for PDF handling can be rewritten in C, and then XeTeX & LuaTeX can be ported. But don't expect the projects to use the rewrite in favor of the original libraries.) —Joel Salomon
