On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 02:24:56AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
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> I am not sure I understand your last question. How can you do typesetting 
> without displaying graphics?
> TeXLive does not require X for processing but in order to see your document 
> you need to use xdvi, ghostview or something along those lines. Obviously, 
> I am not suggesting that you  install  X on a  DNS server  in order
> to do typesetting. What I am suggesting is that I would expect that you use 
> a desktop machine running X for typesetting.

How about using TeX on your webserver to dynamically generate pdf's ?

Granted, many webserver add-ons require X to be installed (gd,
anyone ? ;) but that doesn't mean that there's no valid reason to use
TeX on a webserver.

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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