From: Vincent Fourmond Date: 2006-12-10T02:08:28+09:00 Subject: Re: TeX and ruby > Hi, > how diffcult could it possibly be to fully integrate TeX > (and, for that matter, pdftex) as a subset of ruby? What do you mean by that ? Do you want to produce Pdf files formatted by Tex from within ruby ? Or do you want to be able to make a LaTeX document using Ruby to write macros, like PerlTex ? http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/perltex.html In either case, I don't believe it's less than a few month more-than-fulltime work. > Essentially, TeX is just some trivial arithmetic. Maybe it is trivial, but I don't believe it to be small, and I have a strong feeling that the author was not writing code for nothing... Vince -- Vincent Fourmond, PhD student http://vincent.fourmond.neuf.fr/