I have just released a new version of kerTeX, with Prote (the derivative of TeX doing all: TeX, e-TeX and able to provide the primitives for LaTeX) having a new primite: \roffdot, allowing to treat a leading dot in a new line as an escape command (thus interpreting what follows as a macro).
This should suffice in fact to write TeX macros to absorb text roff scripts (man, mdoc) and do the rendering with TeX. The aim, finally, is to get rid of PostScript (in fact unneeded, but requiring a PostScript interpreter hence the GhostScript problem), in a first step by converting DVI to PDF, and finally by using the METAFONT rasterizing capabilities to generate an array of dots (an image), leading to a small, self-contained, correct and unencumbered layout engine doing everything, from system documentation to whatever the user may want to produce as a (mainly text) document. I have updated partly the IWP9 article to interpolate things I added during the meeting. You can find the PDF here: http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/doc/iwp9.pdf -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ kergis +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://kertex.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T3fb0089bd0c052c8-Mae43d17adba959da976ee04c Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
