From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41259 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How could a typesetting system be today? Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 01:08:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="8323329-1279211382-1212124086=:25808" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212124062 16786 80.91.229.12 (30 May 2008 05:07:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 05:07:42 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri May 30 07:08:22 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 1K1wqj-0000hf-NQ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 07:08:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 395D91FBD5; Fri, 30 May 2008 07:07:34 +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 21906-02-3; Fri, 30 May 2008 07:06:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0126A1FBB9; Fri, 30 May 2008 07:06:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41BEE1FBE8 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 07:06:50 +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 21005-03-2 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 07:06:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.93.161]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 987191FB29 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 07:06:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: FROM host-n146-113.homerun.telia.com (host-n146-113.homerun.telia.com [217.214.93.113]) BY tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 483F8B41.26D2B.3728 ; 30 May 2008 01:06:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) 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:41259 Archived-At: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323329-1279211382-1212124086=:25808 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Fri, 30 May 2008, 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. There is ant http://ant.berlios.de/, but it is supposed to be saner form=20 of TeX (in terms of source code, and easy of configuration) which was=20 developed from scratch. The user interface is quite similar to TeX. I do=20 not know much about the internal differences between Ant and TeX. > 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. Also since the=20 computers now are more powerful, I think that doing page breaking on a=20 global manner (or atleast by looking two three pages down, rather than=20 just the current page), will make certain things (like long mathematical=20 forumlas, and complex footnotes) appear nicely without a lot of manual=20 tweaking. Aditya --8323329-1279211382-1212124086=:25808 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ --8323329-1279211382-1212124086=:25808--