Trying to get an overview of the LaTeX source code base

[David Carlisle]

texdoc hitex

in texlive should give a (21 page) user manual or there is a longer (164
page) prerelease of a hitex book available from
https://hint.userweb.mwn.de/hint/hitex.html

There are hint viewers for at least windows and linux, and I got the
windows one working from cygwin (just wrapping with a script to manage the
file paths) so:

$ hilatex sample2e
This is HiTeX, Version 3.141592653, HINT version 1.4 (preloaded
format=hilatex)
entering extended mode
(sample2e.tex
LaTeX2e <2021-11-15> patch level 1
L3 programming layer <2022-05-04> ("article.cls"
Document Class: article 2021/10/04 v1.4n Standard LaTeX document class
("size10.clo")) ("l3backend-dvips.def")
No file sample2e.aux.
("omscmr.fd") (sample2e.aux) )
Output written on sample2e.hnt (1 page, 493011 bytes).
Transcript written on sample2e.log.

$ hintview sample2e.hnt &

[image: image.png]



On Tue, 17 May 2022 at 08:39, Justin Bailey <jgbailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> > HiTeX is rather new and experimental, but the others are all widely used.
>
> Can provide a link to HiTex? I was unable to get Google to spit out a page
> that made sense. I did find Kergis (
> https://kertex.kergis.com/en/index.html) & mention of Prote ... is that
> it? I'd love to read about a new engine ...
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 11:45 PM Joseph Wright <
> joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 06/05/2022 02:13, Aaron Gray wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am trying to see how LaTeX fits together, does it sit on TeXLive ?
>> >
>> > Is it still running on the Knuth's old PASCAL2C translated kernel ?
>> >
>> > Are there any good overviews of the code base please ?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Aaron
>>
>> I assume you've seen https://tug.org/levels.html or similar.
>>
>> LaTeX is a macro package, and therefore works with any engine which
>> provides the required primitives (built-ins). Today, that set is Knuth's
>> TeX + e-TeX + 'pdfTeX extensions'. There are a number of engines that do
>> that
>>
>> - pdfTeX
>> - XeTeX
>> - LuaTeX
>> - e-pTeX
>> - e-upTeX
>> - HiTeX/Prote
>>
>> HiTeX is rather new and experimental, but the others are all widely used.
>>
>> All except LuaTeX are written in WEB and converted using web2c
>> (https://tug.org/texinfohtml/web2c.html) for building binaries. LuaTeX
>> is written in C directly.
>>
>> Whilst TeX Live is a major TeX system, there is also MiKTeX (very
>> heavily used on Windows) and KerTeX (restricted to a BSD license and
>> therefore suitable in places that GPL code is not acceptable).
>>
>> Joseph
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/attachments/20220517/7c654204/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image.png
Type: image/png
Size: 128383 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/attachments/20220517/7c654204/attachment-0001.png>