| ▲ | thangalin 11 hours ago | |
> it is much easier to write a transpiler for Pascal->C than to rewrite TeX. Asking an LLM to rewrite it in the language-du-jour ... I thought that the combination of the Pascal and Java versions[1] of TeX would be sufficient guidance to produce another language/implementation. > is a huge cost for very little benefit A greenfield Java implementation with an MIT license would have been useful[2] for rendering TeX inside of my desktop Markdown editor[3]. Instead, I had to rename all the Java source files to abide by the NTSPL license terms (or GPLv2, which is viral). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Typesetting_System [2]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenType/-/blob/main/LICENSE.t... | ||