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GitHub copy of the NTS/TeX source code from 2001

6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2021-08-12 · latest 2026-06-13

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  1. …where they tried to use java und modularize the system, the systems being NTS [0] and ExTeX [1] [0] https://github.com/jamespfennell/new-typesetting-system [1] https://github.com/tex-other/extex
    comment by wolfi1 · 2026-06-13 · in Tectonic: A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
  2. …some parts of the code itself read like older C++ with labeled break/continue, e.g. this function: https://github.com/jamespfennell/new-typesetting-system/blob...
    comment by trealira · 2024-06-22 · in NTS (TeX reimplementation in Java from 2001) still compiles under Java 16
  3. Love the print statements still in the code: https://github.com/jamespfennell/new-typesetting-system/blob... Alot of this doesnt look much different than Java code bases i see
    comment by ldjkfkdsjnv · 2024-06-22 · in NTS (TeX reimplementation in Java from 2001) still compiles under Java 16
  4. Looks like it was inherited from an upstream project that has a long history: https://github.com/jamespfennell/new-typesetting-system#lice...
    comment by bedatadriven · 2023-01-23 · in KeenType: Pure Java typesetting system