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A dream in the distant future: (La)TeX gets the same treatment as Vim is getting right now with Neovim [1]. A full refractoring to make code from the 80s reada
by robinhoodexe 12y ago
A dream in the distant future:
(La)TeX gets the same treatment as Vim is getting right now with Neovim [1]. A full refractoring to make code from the 80s readable by a larger group, make it faster (some kind of JIT compiler would be nice) and just cleaner in every way.
[1] http://neovim.org/ http://neovim.org/
- s9w 12y agoIt would be fantastic, yes. I guess the difficulty with LaTeX are that typography and pdf/ps output are more difficult than other projects.
- Derbasti 12y agoPdflatex is a rewrite that compiles directly to PDF. Xetex is a rewrite that supports Unicode and TTF/OTF fonts. Luatex is a rewrite that supports Unicode and TTF/OTF fonts and is scriptable in Lua.
- Derbasti 12y agoOh, I forgot: LuaJitTex is a descendant of LuaTex that uses LuaJit to compile.