From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41263 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Yue Wang" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How could a typesetting system be today? Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:12:50 +0800 Message-ID: <68bfdc900805300012o789c12ebi15cb7ec3e0f10155@mail.gmail.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 1212131670 3731 80.91.229.12 (30 May 2008 07:14:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 07:14:30 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri May 30 09:15:11 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 1K1ypQ-00063y-Rb for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:15:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BAF71FC77; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:14:21 +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 05766-01-4; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:13:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8FFB1FBEB; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:13:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 345E01FB4E for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:13:27 +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 05766-01-3 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:12:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.156]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E83401FC87 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:12:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so62237fgb.8 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 00:12:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.86.57.9 with SMTP id f9mr158952fga.66.1212131570778; Fri, 30 May 2008 00:12:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.86.53.9 with HTTP; Fri, 30 May 2008 00:12:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:41263 Archived-At: > There is ant http://ant.berlios.de/, but it is supposed to be saner form of > TeX (in terms of source code, and easy of configuration) which was developed > from scratch. The user interface is quite similar to TeX. I do not know much > about the internal differences between Ant and TeX. > ANT have many major improvements. But as to the output pdf file of ANT, I cannot see much difference:( > River detection, which is done by ant, but not by TeX. Also since the > computers now are more powerful, I think that doing page breaking on a > global manner (or atleast by looking two three pages down, rather than just > the current page), will make certain things (like long mathematical > forumlas, and complex footnotes) appear nicely without a lot of manual > tweaking. Agreed. River detection and global page break are very important for an advanced Typesetting system. I think control arbitrary streams on pages (available many advanced software, like InDesign) are also useful. I hope they will be in LuaTeX soon. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________