Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells wrote:
Hans Hagen wrote:
[...] that's the part that worries me most because in general tex
development has a rather bad history of cross platform code development
W H A A A T ? ? ! ! ! ! !
TeX is surely /the/ program, /par excellence/, that is guaranteed to produce identical results on every platform. I genuinely don't understand to what "rather bad history of cross platform code development" you refer, Hans. BNB cc'd, because I suspect she may want to comment on this.
that's another matter; the fact that it does produce identical results is related to the tex kernel, not to the actual binary that goed beyond tex by being integrated in a cross platform tex environment (say web2c); https://xemtex.groups.foundry.supelec.fr/xemtex-web-gb-2-5.html summarizes this nicely; anyhow, it has been discussed frequently at recent user group meetings Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------