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Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk by lr1970 on Saturday August 20, 2022 @07:10PM (#32535962)
> He says he wanted to try "XeTeX" (which supports Unicode) but "...I was going to download it as an experiment and they wanted 5 gigabytes and 5 gigabytes at the particular boonies place I'm living would...mmm..not be finished yet!"

He can try "Tectonic" [0] - a modern XeTeX based TeX/LaTeX distribution that installs a minimum system and then downloads and installs dependencies on-demand. Tectonic is written in C and Rust [1].

[0] https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/

[1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic

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Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk by xvilka on Saturday August 20, 2022 @09:42PM (#32536668)
It's sad that Tectonic conversion to Rust[1] was never finished. For now it's just a wrapper around C and C++ code. By far, it was the most promising thing in this distribution.

[1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459

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