On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 02:24:56AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > I am not sure I understand your last question. How can you do typesetting > without displaying graphics? > TeXLive does not require X for processing but in order to see your document > you need to use xdvi, ghostview or something along those lines. Obviously, > I am not suggesting that you install X on a DNS server in order > to do typesetting. What I am suggesting is that I would expect that you use > a desktop machine running X for typesetting.
How about using TeX on your webserver to dynamically generate pdf's ? Granted, many webserver add-ons require X to be installed (gd, anyone ? ;) but that doesn't mean that there's no valid reason to use TeX on a webserver. Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/