Re: (no) hyphenation

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 08:56 AM 7/19/00 -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote:
>Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
>I know it must be very difficult to fake multiple-column output,
>because so many macropackages have trouble with this feature.  This is
>off topic, but I'm curious to know: do the new typesetting projects
>like omega and NTS have built-in multicolumn support?

No, omega is tex with foreign language support and NTS-0 is just tex.
Personally I think that much discussion is needed to uncover what is really
needed. Probably more low level support and flow control, accompanied by
high level macros. If that kind of thinsg is there, I can adapt context
quite easy, since I've isolated most code. 

>> There are also things tex can do that people think tex cannot
>> do. The metafun manual I'm working on shows some.
>
>Yes, but that's cheating, because you are finding ways to have TeX and
>MetaPost dancing gracefully together!  TeX alone would not be such a
>show stopper on the graphics dance floor.

Well, since tex came with mf (and fonts) and later mp, i consider them a
happy couple. Although, a real pipeline would be best. 

Hans
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