Re: KPathSea bindings for Java

On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 10:53 AM Erik Nijenhuis <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 ;)
>

True, perspective varies with standpoint :-)


> > 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.
>

re: rtex

The second maintainer of rust-kpathsea, Emily Eisenberg, joined exactly as
part of working on a Rust port of TeX itself back in 2019.
Similarly to what I understand from the rtex talk, she was also doing it
out of curiosity, attempting to learn both languages at the same time.
I think she took some additional liberties in inventing abstractions, but -
to my knowledge - hasn't presented her work anywhere yet.

Her port is called "XymosTeX", available at:

https://github.com/xymostech/XymosTeX

Greetings,
Deyan


>
> > 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
>