[texhax] Ideas/lists of developer libraries of TeX Macros?

[Paul Isambert]

Le 17/04/2011 23:15, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) a écrit :
> Donald Arseneau wrote:
>
>> I don't see a point in doing plain TeX hackery except for
>> reinventing wheels.
>>
>> Use LaTeX, or ConTeXt, or even eplain.
>
> Why ?  Why deny yourself the satisfaction of solving
> a difficult problem and merely recycle other's ideas ?
> What is the intellectual satisfaction in that ?

Also, using LaTeX or ConTeXt (and perhaps eplain, I don't know how much 
it does exactly) might solve your immediate problem with TeX hackery, 
but that comes with heavy dependencies elsewhere. So reinventing the 
wheel is a good solution when you want to build your car.

Best,
Paul