From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Small program "PlanKey" (paraphrase of DOSKey)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:52:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1801f1e36fd913d459b5ab0edcfb6940@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233247208.4412.116.camel@goose.sun.com>
> You've hit the nail on the head with this comment. It seems that almost
> all layout systems spend 99% of their smarts laying out blocks of
> graphic information *and* trying to figure out how to make text be
> still "self-layingout". And I do mean all: from TeX, lout, all the
> way to HTML/CSS.
i think there's hope. boxes-n-glue is simple enough. within a text
box, layout could be the same as today. gluing boxes together is fairly
straightforward. (just steal knuth's algorithms.) i think a good
bit of τεχ's complexity is in that last smidge of layout doctoring
and the fact that everything needs to fit on a page. if you
get rid of kerning, hyphenation, hbadness, vbadness, etc. by
using the current text layout algorithm, it might just be reasonable.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-29 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-23 10:03 pavel.klinkovsky
2009-01-23 10:50 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-01-23 11:27 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-01-23 11:35 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-01-23 12:56 ` roger peppe
2009-01-23 14:14 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-26 12:41 ` cej
2009-01-26 10:31 ` pavel.klinkovsky
2009-01-27 3:29 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 3:42 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-27 4:43 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 6:35 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-27 6:44 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-27 20:01 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 20:10 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-27 22:01 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 22:26 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-27 22:58 ` sqweek
2009-01-27 23:42 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-28 0:35 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-01-28 5:59 ` lucio
2009-01-28 19:00 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-28 22:19 ` Joel C. Salomon
2009-01-28 22:51 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-01-29 0:26 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-29 2:09 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 8:49 ` cej
2009-01-29 11:50 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-01-29 13:04 ` roger peppe
2009-01-29 13:53 ` cej
2009-01-29 16:14 ` jimmy brisson
2009-01-29 13:53 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 15:20 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-29 16:40 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 16:52 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-01-29 17:03 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-29 17:09 ` Brian L. Stuart
2009-01-27 7:09 ` Russ Cox
2009-01-27 22:12 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 22:25 ` Christopher Nielsen
2009-01-27 22:31 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 22:43 ` Christopher Nielsen
2009-01-27 22:50 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 23:11 ` Christopher Nielsen
2009-01-27 23:40 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-28 3:15 ` Christopher Nielsen
2009-01-28 7:22 ` Eris Discordia
2009-01-27 23:01 ` sqweek
2009-01-26 10:31 ` pavel.klinkovsky
2009-01-27 3:21 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 9:37 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
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