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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by jawaddeo on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @08:31AM (#3265422)
The restrictions are what they are, but TeX doesn't help at all by being large with an internal (circular!) dependency tree that would (should) get you fired in a flash from a commercial software house.
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Re:The price of a messy codebase: No LaTeX on the iPad by kleiba on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @06:49PM (#3272339)
Apart from the fact that trees cannot be circular ;-) LaTeX installations work like a charm for other forms of distributions. I think it's really just a clash of philosophies here.
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