Re: [go-nuts] [ANN] star-tex: a Go engine for TeX

2021-02-22 Thread Sebastien Binet
On Sun Feb 21, 2021 at 18:54 CET, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Feb 21, 2021, at 9:14 AM, Sebastien Binet wrote: > > > > On Sun Feb 21, 2021 at 17:46 CET, Patrick wrote: > >> Hi Sebastien, > >> > >> that was a manual translation of the web file. > >> My plan was to do more than that, ... TeX is such a be

Re: [go-nuts] [ANN] star-tex: a Go engine for TeX

2021-02-21 Thread Bakul Shah
On Feb 21, 2021, at 9:14 AM, Sebastien Binet wrote: > > On Sun Feb 21, 2021 at 17:46 CET, Patrick wrote: >> Hi Sebastien, >> >> that was a manual translation of the web file. >> My plan was to do more than that, ... TeX is such a beast. > > yeah... "how hard would it be to translate ~20k lines

[go-nuts] [ANN] star-tex: a Go engine for TeX

2021-02-16 Thread Sebastien Binet
hi there, I'd like to introduce star-tex[1], a (Work In Progress) TeX engine. it wraps the output of the official texlive tex.w WEB file (ie: C/C++ files) as a CGo package. the idea is to replace in an adiabatical fashion the C bits with their Go equivalent. there's already code that can correc