From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41265 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 09:37:39 +0200 Message-ID: <483FAEC3.8030906@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="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212133149 7913 80.91.229.12 (30 May 2008 07:39:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 07:39:09 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri May 30 09:39:50 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 1K1zDG-0004kW-4f for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:39:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55B091FC57; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:38:58 +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 08707-02; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:38:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F951FC5A; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:38:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 344CA1FC57 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:38:13 +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 05213-05-11 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:37:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from plane.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [82.95.203.226]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64C521FBA8 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:37:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from glenlivet.elvenkind.com (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by plane.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E51802BDE4 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:37:39 +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:41265 Archived-At: Aditya Mahajan wrote: > >> Does anyone knows about novel or interesting ideas that could be >> used if we would write a new typesetting system from scratch? > > River detection, which is done by ant, but not by TeX. If there was a clear algorithm I could implement that in luatex. But I have not seen any whitepaper on the subject and I cannot read OCaml source well enough to understand what is going on ... ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________