Re: [9fans] Are acme-sac questions ok here?

2008-03-14 Thread Charles Forsyth
There's an Inferno for the discussion of all aspects of Inferno and Limbo (which would include acme-sac because it's built on that). To subscribe to that list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], including the word subscribe in the subject or body of the message. There is, however, acme-sac

Re: [9fans] Porting XeTeX

2008-03-14 Thread erik quanstrom
I'm asking mainly because of Plan 9, a UNIX-like OS with a C compiler (but no C++) to which the freetype library has been ported. There's an old port of TeX that doesn't work too well anymore, so there's been some talk about porting a modern TeX. (LuaTeX requires C++ for the PDF library it

Re: [9fans] Porting XeTeX

2008-03-14 Thread Russ Cox
I'm asking mainly because of Plan 9, a UNIX-like OS with a C compiler (but no C++) to which the freetype library has been ported. There's an old port of TeX that doesn't work too well anymore, so there's been some talk about porting a modern TeX. don't waste your time unless there is

Re: [9fans] Porting XeTeX

2008-03-14 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 5:28 AM, erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what do you mean doesn't work too well anymore? i haven't noticed anything going broken. But lucio has had trouble. I guess I overstated the case a bit. --Joel

Re: [9fans] dns woes

2008-03-14 Thread Christian Kellermann
* erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080314 17:01]: This is not as reproducible as I thought. I just opened another window and ran ndb/dnsquery and it works now. Could this be due to temporary dns failure problems? do you have any other broken dns, other than the one you started? not

Re: [9fans] Porting XeTeX

2008-03-14 Thread lucio
But lucio has had trouble. That's because I am totally unfamiliar with TeX. I guess I overstated the case a bit. Sorry to have put you in the firing line. ++L