[OS X TeX] LaTeX on iPad?

[Jonathan Kew]

On 6 Mar 2010, at 16:45, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

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> On Mar 6, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
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>> It'd be easy to port TeX/pdfTeX/LaTeX/etc to the iPad. (We showed e-TeX and a prototype DVI viewer running on the iPhone last year; see Kaveh's presentation from TUG '09, for example.)
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> Just out of curiosity, how did you do this?  My understanding is that you can't fork/exec on iPhone, so I didn't think the task approach used by TeXShop and others would work.

The TeX engine is essentially turned into a library and linked directly with the viewer application, so as far as the OS is concerned, it's a single executable.

JK