Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-21 Thread William Adams
On May 18, 2012, at 11:59 AM, C Y wrote: If I manage to come up with something functional, would a poppler-removing patch be of interest? I would certainly vote for it as would everyone else interested in kertex or using TeX on a server. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-21 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:43:43AM -0400, William Adams wrote: On May 18, 2012, at 11:59 AM, C Y wrote: If I manage to come up with something functional, would a poppler-removing patch be of interest? I would certainly vote for it as would everyone else interested in kertex or using TeX

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-18 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 07:49:46PM -0700, C Y wrote: XeTeX is not MIT but GPL. It uses a GPL library (poppler), so... http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=3304292group_id=194926atid=951385 That affects only the resulting binary, XeTeX code is still MIT licensed (unless

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-18 Thread C Y
From: Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org Poppler is used to read PDF files (for inclusion) not to write them. Regards, Khaled Ah, good to know.  So something more like PoDoFo or QPDF would be needed. If I manage to come up with something functional, would a poppler-removing patch be of

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:59 PM, C Y wrote: If I manage to come up with something functional, would a poppler-removing patch be of interest? I might be wrong, but I think that currently a much more awaited patch would be one replacing ATSUI library calls with Core Text. I guess that would be

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:59 PM, C Y wrote: If I manage to come up with something functional, would a poppler-removing patch be of interest? See: http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2008/talks/2008-08-22-martin-pdflib/handout.pdf (and I'm almost sure that there must be newer slides by

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-17 Thread Martin Schröder
2012/5/17 C Y smustude...@yahoo.com: From: Joseph Wright joseph.wri...@morningstar2.co.uk Oh yes, license and library issues: I forgot :-) Does KerTeX have license issues?  (XeTeX being MIT instead of GPL was one of the things that drew me to it, actually...) XeTeX is not MIT but GPL. It

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 01:34:47PM +0200, Martin Schröder wrote: 2012/5/17 C Y smustude...@yahoo.com: From: Joseph Wright joseph.wri...@morningstar2.co.uk Oh yes, license and library issues: I forgot :-) Does KerTeX have license issues?  (XeTeX being MIT instead of GPL was one of the

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-17 Thread C Y
XeTeX is not MIT but GPL. It uses a GPL library (poppler), so... http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=3304292group_id=194926atid=951385 That affects only the resulting binary, XeTeX code is still MIT licensed (unless pdfimage.cpp is *copying* code from poppler), AFAIK. Has anyone

[XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-16 Thread C Y
I have compiled xetex from the latest Git sources on sourceforge, and the build appears to have been successful. Does the sourceforge Git repo of xetex produce a working (albeit minimal) TeX once compilation is complete?  (It didn't seem to in my quick test, but it's quite possible I didn't do

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-16 Thread Joseph Wright
On 16/05/2012 05:38, C Y wrote: I have compiled xetex from the latest Git sources on sourceforge, and the build appears to have been successful. Does the sourceforge Git repo of xetex produce a working (albeit minimal) TeX once compilation is complete? (It didn't seem to in my quick test,

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-16 Thread Herbert Schulz
On May 15, 2012, at 11:38 PM, C Y wrote: I have compiled xetex from the latest Git sources on sourceforge, and the build appears to have been successful. Does the sourceforge Git repo of xetex produce a working (albeit minimal) TeX once compilation is complete? (It didn't seem to in my

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-16 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2012/5/16 C Y smustude...@yahoo.com: I have compiled xetex from the latest Git sources on sourceforge, and the build appears to have been successful. Does the sourceforge Git repo of xetex produce a working (albeit minimal) TeX once compilation is complete?  (It didn't seem to in my quick

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-16 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:38 AM, C Y smustude...@yahoo.com wrote: I have compiled xetex from the latest Git sources on sourceforge, and the build appears to have been successful. Does the sourceforge Git repo of xetex produce a working (albeit minimal) TeX once compilation is complete?  (It

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 6:38 AM, C Y wrote: I have compiled xetex from the latest Git sources on sourceforge, and the build appears to have been successful. Does the sourceforge Git repo of xetex produce a working (albeit minimal) TeX once compilation is complete?  (It didn't seem to in my

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-16 Thread mskala
On Tue, 15 May 2012, C Y wrote: environment wise...)  If not, is there documentation anywhere of what constitutes the minimal set of files that will allow an average LaTeX document to be typeset? That is a lot like asking for the minimal set of files that will allow an average Linux software

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-16 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 04:42:31PM +0100, Joseph Wright wrote: On 16/05/2012 05:38, C Y wrote: I have compiled xetex from the latest Git sources on sourceforge, and the build appears to have been successful. Does the sourceforge Git repo of xetex produce a working (albeit minimal)

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-16 Thread Joseph Wright
On 16/05/2012 17:18, Khaled Hosny wrote: TeX is more than one program, so it's not as simple as grabbing 'source for the binary nameTeX' and compiling it. For a minimal compilable set up, maybe take a look at KerTeX: http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html Which does not include XeTeX :) Oh

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-16 Thread C Y
From: Joseph Wright joseph.wri...@morningstar2.co.uk For a minimal compilable set up, maybe take a look at KerTeX: http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html Thanks - I hadn't heard of KerTeX.  That looks quite interesting... From: Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com If you happen to be on a

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-16 Thread C Y
From: Joseph Wright joseph.wri...@morningstar2.co.uk Oh yes, license and library issues: I forgot :-) Does KerTeX have license issues?  (XeTeX being MIT instead of GPL was one of the things that drew me to it, actually...) Cheers, CY --

Re: [XeTeX] Minimalist TeX?

2012-05-16 Thread C Y
  Does KerTeX have license issues?  (XeTeX being MIT instead of GPL was one of the things that drew me to it, actually...) Oh, nevermind - I see it now, an advertising clause. CY -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: