[OS X TeX] LaTeX on iPad?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Mar 6, 2010, at 7:53 AM, David Derbes wrote:

> This may well be the wrong place to ask, and if so I apologize in advance.
> 
> I'm thinking about an iPad. It's disappointing that this thing won't run native OS X apps (and who knows, maybe down the road a new version will), but is there any thought to porting LaTeX (and TeXShop?) to the iPhone OS (or whatever the iPad runs)?
> 
> I think the iPad is mostly going to be a passive device (a terrific browser and reader, not necessarily terrific for creating content except email or other nearly pure text), so perhaps this is a foolish question.
> 
> David Derbes
> U of Chicago Lab Schools

Howdy,

Just guessing here but I don't think it's a simple task to move things over to the iPhone SDK since it's much more limiting.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)