On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:

> Mauricio wrote:
> >>> I also like to write programs (I use a really
> >>> nice language named Haskell). Do you thing I
> >>> could get what I want if I write or translate
> >>> typography functions to that language, and then
> >>> write programs to generate documents? Where
> >>> could I find or where could I learn about such
> >>> functions?
> >> You can also have a look at ant http://ant.berlios.de/. It is not as
> big
> >> as TeX and is written in Ocaml, so you may find it easier to understand
> >> than the source code of TeX (a mixture of pascal, change files, and C).
> >>
> >
> > Great! Thanks! There's a lot there I can study.
>
> IIRC, earlier versions of ant were actually written in haskell.
>
> Regarding stuff to read: the typeset version of the (pdf)tex source
> ((pdf)tex.web+(pdf)tex.ch after processing by weave) is probably still
> the best "beginner's book" if you want to start implementing a general
> typesetting system.

And, for luatex,
http://groups.foundry.supelec.fr/modules/luatex/luatex.pdf

-- 
luigi