Paul de Weerd wrote:
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 02:24:56AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
I am not sure I understand your last question. How can you do typesetting
without displaying graphics?
TeXLive does not require X for processing but in order to see your document
you need to use xdvi, ghostview or something along those lines. Obviously,
I am not suggesting that you install X on a DNS server in order
to do typesetting. What I am suggesting is that I would expect that you use
a desktop machine running X for typesetting.
How about using TeX on your webserver to dynamically generate pdf's ?
I didn't think of that possibility. I usually crate documents on my
desktop machine before moving them to a web-server.
Anyhow TeXLive doesn't require X as I said in my previous message. He
can process text on the
web-server which doesn't run X. On the another hand TeXLive does
include things like xdvi which he will obviously not be able to run
without X.
Cheers,
Predrag
Granted, many webserver add-ons require X to be installed (gd,
anyone ? ;) but that doesn't mean that there's no valid reason to use
TeX on a webserver.
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
