From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41591 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?windows-1252?Q?Maur=ED=ADcio?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How could a typesetting system be today? Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:12:21 -0300 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213229657 23609 80.91.229.12 (12 Jun 2008 00:14:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:14:17 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 12 02:14:59 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 1K6aSw-0004Qn-Nr for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:14:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408D51FC09; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:14:06 +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 26885-03-2; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:13:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A82741FBCB; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:13:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4791FBCB for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:13:10 +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 26651-01-11 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:12:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F1C1FBB9 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:12:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K6aQY-0006pl-7p for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:12:30 +0000 Original-Received: from 189.7.82.31 ([189.7.82.31]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:12:30 +0000 Original-Received: from briqueabraque by 189.7.82.31 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:12:30 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 189.7.82.31 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) In-Reply-To: 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:41591 Archived-At: Sorry to insist, but I would be really interested in approaches that are not just great things we could add to TeX. For instance: would it be possible to have some kind of =93layout engine=94 to which text processing would be just one among other plug-ins? I wonder what kind of information that engine should share with plug-ins. Do you think such system is possible? Or something else? Maur=EDcio Maur=EDcio a =E9crit : > 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. > > (...) ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________