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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: The enormous potential that programming LaTeX in Ada presents.
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 01:04:23 -0600
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On 12/3/2014 9:41 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> is nothing
> without the LaTeX processor (and most LaTeX environment these days just
> translate the LaTeX source into PostScript page descriptions, passing that
> off to GhostScript to be rendered on some printer -- presuming the printer
> itself doesn't have a PostScript RIP built-in.
>

Actually hardly anyone uses poscript (dvips) now. It is all pdflatex.
postscript documents are pretty much dead.

--Nasser