From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2389 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: (no) hyphenation Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:13:50 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000719091350.01387c10@pop.wxs.nl> References: <3.0.6.32.20000717024554.01c94a30@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393175 8435 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:12:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:12:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt Original-To: Hraban In-Reply-To: <397396A5.ED306D11@gmx.net> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2389 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2389 At 01:28 AM 7/18/00 +0200, Hraban wrote: >And I thought, TeX would be able to do *everything* ... >(Telling so myself to the people) I can assure you that there are many thinks tex cannot do. You would be surprised to see how much time is spent on programming things that seem simple. Did you know that tex cannot do double columns? You can fake them, which is what happens. There are also things tex can do that people think tex cannot do. The metafun manual I'm working on shows some. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------