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Re: portable LaTeX
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Sebastian Rahtz <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:28:30 +0000
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Hans Aberg writes:
 > >links. so there you go. read up on the pdfmark operator, if you are
 > >interested
 >
 > So are you saying that pdfTeX is wholly unnecessary, as this works just as
 > well?
no. with pdfTeX you can get direct access to PDF as you
compose the TeX. an obvious example where pdftex is needed is
to allow breaking of links across lines and pages - theoretically
possibly in      a dvi->ps->pdf, but I havent seen anyone do it.

 > By the way, can pdf display everything taht a WWW browser can (say
 > interactive Java byte-code)?
PDF is a language, not a bit of software. a PDF browser may have a
Java interpreter, yes. I have no idea what "interactive byte-code"
could conceivably be

sebastian

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