[Dev-luatex] Q: Can LuaTeX produce xdv?
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Tue Jan 6 02:24:54 CET 2009
Arthur Reutenauer writes:
> Maybe it's time that we turn the question the other way round and ask
> you for reasons to *do* so.
Hi Arthur,
as far as I remember, Jonathan explained clearly at the very beginning
of the discussion why he is interested in an intermediate format.
> What, could you please tell us, is so great about *not* generating
> the end result directly that we should force ourselves to produce
> an intermediate file first, [...]
What do you mean with "end result"? Unless I completely misunderstand
everything, Jonathan does *not* intend to create PDF at all.
I assume that what Jonathan has in mind is something like
http://www.mathtran.org/toys/jfine/editor2.html
Yes, the PDF backend is extremely expensive in this case, for several
reasons.
Regards,
Reinhard
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