From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2394 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: (no) hyphenation Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:36:55 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000719163655.00a92e00@pop.wxs.nl> References: <3.0.6.32.20000717024554.01c94a30@pop.wxs.nl> <3.0.6.32.20000719091350.01387c10@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 1035393180 8511 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:13:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:13:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt Original-To: Ed L Cashin In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2394 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2394 At 08:56 AM 7/19/00 -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote: >Hans Hagen 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------