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[gruso]

I'm kind of surprised we haven't seen it yet. This program is listed on the port requests page:


http://gummi.midnightcoding.org/


...but I'm not sure if that's a standalone app, or just some kind of front end.

 

[hmc]

okay guys, I am working on a solution to get LaTeX onto the Pandora, and I hope to be able to present a result in a few days.


Question:


WIll it make sense to distribute TeX with LaTeX and probably MetaFont as a PND? Currently I don't think so. If used from LyX or some other TeX/LaTeX-aware editor, that editor needs to call the (La)TeX binaries.


The TeX binary (no matter if used from a TeX editor or stand-alone) may need to call the Metafont binary for font creation, each binary needs access to a variety of .tex and .fmt files and possibly others, so a correct PND configuration would be complicated to build, and probably also complicated to use.


Installation as an ipk package would make the tools available system-wide without the overhead of mounting the PND and accessing its contents on non-standard ways.


Another option could be to distribute it as a PND, which, when started, mounts an extend (? - if I did get the purpose of "extends" right), which lets the TeX/LaTeX components appear in their standard places, ready to use for any person or tool needing access to them. But I have no expiernece with extends at all, so this will be difficult for me.


Opinions?


Daniel

 

[mcobit]

Have a look, how WizardStans Java pnd does this maybe.


I think it copies a script to the bin dir on the nand, which mounts the pnd and exports the bin folder etc in the pnd.

 

[hmc]

Thanks! Will investigate.

 

[stophle]

Any news? I'd love it!

 

[hmc]

Not yet.


So many other tasks to accomplish, with higher priorities than this one.


But I havent lost interest at least...