Re: [Dev-luatex] Q: Can LuaTeX produce xdv?

Yannis Haralambous Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:23:48 -0800

Talking about DVI and PDF, I am the first one to be concerned about the programmed extinction of DVI because I have many jobs based on DVI post-processing (for example for marginal material, headers, and even for parallel texts between two pages). The advantage with DVI is that you can very easily now where you are located on the page so that you can extract text with positional information, and you can also easily insert new text (using pushes and pops).

But I'm confident that I will be able to rewrite all that for the PDF format. Multivalent has released some very powerful Java classes which convert PDF into a human-readable format and back to binary. Of course BT...ET sections are more complex than DVI's SET operator but I think it is possible to do simple post-processing.

And with the Mars format there is always hope that all that will be written in XML...

So, although many of the tools I depend upon are based on DVI, I'm rather for a PDF-only solution.

Nevertheless, a problem that should be solved is the one of adapting psfrag to PDF. psfrag is *absolutely essential* when typesetting mathematics...

Le 2 janv. 09 à 19:52, Jonathan Fine a écrit :

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

[discussion of plans snipped]

PDF is very strong in the print field. However, the web page is also an important medium, and as I said in my response to Mojca, I'd like to be able to view and interact with typeset material on a more-or-less ordinary web page.

I'd also like to have TeX or an extension available as a typesetting engine for an interactive graphical typesetting program.

For these reasons, and also so that LuaTeX and XeTeX could share more code and ideas, I'd like both systems to use a common extension of DVI.

In some sense, it is this sharing of code and of ideas that is for me the key thing.

PS And a Happy New Year to you all!

Well said. And from me to.

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Jonathan

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