From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41264 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How could a typesetting system be today? Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:26:42 +0200 Message-ID: <483FAC32.1050808@elvenkind.com> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212132530 5987 80.91.229.12 (30 May 2008 07:28:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 07:28:50 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri May 30 09:29:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K1z3L-0001dH-Mg for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:29:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6751C1FB5A; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:28:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06599-01-13; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:28:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD2F1FBA8; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:27:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F7A1FA2B for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:27:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06570-02-6 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:26:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from plane.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [82.95.203.226]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E681FC93 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:26:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from glenlivet.elvenkind.com (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by plane.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BC5802BDE4 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:26:42 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080305) In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41264 Archived-At: Maur=ED=ADcio wrote: > Hi, > = > Just because I'm curious: how could a typesetting system like TeX > be if it was created today? I've tried google and wikipedia, and > all I found different from TeX is a system called 'Lout', but it > seems dead. > = > Does anyone knows about novel or interesting ideas that could be > used if we would write a new typesetting system from scratch? Practically speaking, I expect it would be a lot like lyx with tex built in. Who would design a document language without front-end these days? ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________