Re: KPathSea bindings for Java

Erik Nijenhuis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texhax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Deyan,


> "jk" is very commonly used to abbreviate "joke" in the English
> speaking world, and would be a rather unfortunate prefix.
I personally think it would make it a fortunate prefix ;)

> I completely agree that a wrapper over kpathsea should include the
> original library name fully, having created a "rust-kpathsea" myself.
Funny that you mention. Tyge Tiessen was looking for that actually. He
demonstrated a rust implementation of TeX at the TUG 2024 Conference.
	https://github.com/tyti/rtex
	https://youtu.be/d7vTW7PR0B4?t=9819
I don't have his contact information unfortunately. Maybe someone else
can share https://github.com/dginev/rust-kpathsea with him.

> How about just adding a "java-" prefix or "-java" sufix? Or if "4j"
> is considered most javaesque, "kpathsea4j" should be fine as well.
I think kpathsea4j is also a nice project name. I would need to start a
poll I guess...

Best, Erik
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