Re: Suggestion

[Yue Wang <yuleopen@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:29 PM, luigi scarso<luigi.scarso@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Anyway, I highly respect the ConTeXt and LuaTeX's work.
>> But if Taco and Hans can :
>>
>> - use a proper regexp library (like lrexlib?), not the silly lpeg
>
> PEG are not silly at all. PEG *include* regex, but not viceversa,
> and it seems to have the same power of  CFG, so you can build a parser for
> pratically anything
> (and you can not do this with regex) .
> Perhaps the reverse sentence has more sense: drop the "silly" (?) regex, use
> the new peg.
> For what I know the reverse side of lpeg is that a file must be loaded in
> memory completly.

Well, I don't like to know what kind of thing is superior ... micro
kernel is superior than monolithic kernel, but...

The key reason for this is, more people are familiar with regexp. so
if you can build a 100% compatible regexp module on top of lpeg in
ConTeXt, it will be ok, or even better...

>
>> - more powerful multi columns (maybe not through gird typesetting?)
>
> Maybe columnset can do  more, or we need more examples from hans .
>

yes. but columnset requires more strict rules (e.g., grid stuffs)
why not build a version of columnset on top of normal TeX page building?
(grid can be a option, should not be a requirement)

>
>> - full support of xslt:)
>
> why not xquery too? Are mkiv  supposed to be a full  xml processor ?


No. I mean the user can have an option to convert an xml (that is, a
context document) using (maybe external) xslt tool.
This won't be too difficult to implement ...

> A bit of xslt can be done with lpeg (and not regex),

a bit == far from all

> but usually  it's better to prepare a xml to typeset before processing with
> mkiv
> ("use the right tool for the right task").
>
>>
>> Things might be a lot better...
>
> and worse too .
> Things are now a lot better than before ,IMMO .
>

it should be.

>
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> luigi
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