Philipp Gesang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Petr,
>
> ···<date: 2012-12-02, Sunday>···<from: Petr Olsak>···
>
> > The solution which loads some sty
> > file and starts loading 18 another .sty files (!!) to solve one
> > SIMPLE problem is not compatible with plainTeX philosophy.
but of course. but then, luatex isn't exactly compatible with the
plaintex philosophy, what with plain's weird mangling of ascii and all.
> then you might prefer the luatex-plain format, it has the
> fontloader already built in, so no style files unless you require
> them explicitly. This code just works, provided you have the
> fonts:
>
> \font\lmr=file:lmroman10-regular at 12pt
> \font\cmur=file:cmunrm at 12pt
>
> {\lmr \input knuth\par}
> {\cmur \input knuth\par}
>
> \bye
surely, a true plain-philosopher would load plain.tex and dump it...
... and then find it was useless, and go back to original tex with none
of those silly e-tex extensions, even.
robin
(who has enough hairs on his chest, naturally, that he doesn't feel the
need to abjure other people's useful work, to demonstrate his own
manliness.)
