Hi I'm aware of XeTeX (I had mentioned XeLaTeX in an earlier thread), and yes, I understand one wouldn't be looking for identity with what other platforms support. I agree that one shouldn't be looking to ape, but rather to provide the same or more functionality in a better way. Perhaps I'll be able to help with that in due course.
K >>> "Joel C. Salomon" <[email protected]> 18/04/2010 12:24 am >>> 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
