Thursday 04 January 2007 17:34, Michel Di Croci wrote: | Funny question maybe, is latex dying? I mean if no one replaced | the maintainer of tetex, is it not a bit risky to continue working | with this software? We know the power of the software but in the | long term, we also know that it won't integrated any new | functionality.
that's definitely a good point. in general, if microsoft would be
giving up a product, i would worry to use it. but tetex is kind of
only one distribution and source is accessible as far i know, it is
not a dying project, it is the current maintainence that is dying.
latex, or tex in general can be compiled with other engines as
well... so i hope - no, i'm sure that we for quite a long time will
have at least one pkg that is providing one of the tex/latex
interpreters in archlinux.
that's why i do not consider it risky to use it "in opus" for now.
your point is well taken, and we should check what is happening in
this field - we for sure are not interested to use windows to have a
tex interpreter :)
- D
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meterologist, n.:
One who doubts the established fact that it is
bound to rain if you forget your umbrella.
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