From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/34198 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Interesting interview Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:37:46 +0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176356297 23889 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2007 05:38:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:38:17 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 12 07:38:13 2007 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 1Hbs0W-0004Yu-1O for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:38:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C1AB1FE1D; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:38:07 +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 06557-03; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:38:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972D61FE1F; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:38:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B9251FE1F for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:38:01 +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 06188-04-7 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:37:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE2F21FE1D for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:37:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fwd28.aul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1Hbs0M-0000mm-03; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:37:58 +0200 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.2] (V8cGzgZQrecBzRyNZvx47UWBMLLZl8E9unfnHnQBLb38QsInG-MJYL@[84.172.84.131]) by fwd28.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1Hbs0B-099HtY0; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:37:47 +0200 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-ID: V8cGzgZQrecBzRyNZvx47UWBMLLZl8E9unfnHnQBLb38QsInG-MJYL@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: 6816bcff-66d7-4279-860d-3f007e25800b 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:34198 Archived-At: Hi all, thought this might be of interest to some of you: the tug website has just published an interview with Will Robertson ( http://www.tug.org/ interviews/interview-files/will-robertson.html ), whom some of you may know from his work on XeLaTeX. Will is the author of the fontspec package which offers lots of very advanced options for choosing and switching fonts in XeTeX. There was one passage that I found quite interesting: > This leads me into a few words about where I think the big problems > of LaTeX lie. Because it's obvious that it is much harder to learn > than it could be. And the crux of the problem, the long and the > short of it, is that the LaTeX kernel has been intentionally > restricted to the functionality originally designed for it. Now, > this is a good thing, by and large. Standards need to be frozen in > order for them to be adhered to. But it's past time to move on and > create a new standard. There are fast approaching competitors that > will eventually overtake LaTeX if we continue to stagnate. (Not to > mention ConTeXt, which has surpassed LaTeX in essentially every > area. Maybe the solution is just for everyone to switch to that.) I mean, we all know that this is true, but it's great that a fairly well-known member of the LaTeX crowd says so as well. All best Thomas