What should I learn?

[Maurí­cio <briqueabraque@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

I would like to ask you some advice on what
should I learn.

Context was the first typography program I
used. Then I tried Tex and a little bit of
latex.

Context is where I get the best results, but
what I really would like is something that
allows me to do things in my own way, not
something that's always great for reasons I
don't understand. (Of course, the first
documents I would type would not be that good,
but I'll learn with time.)

I thought Tex could be that, but it's not. I
can't use it to create something to fit my
(worst) taste instead of Knuth's (better)
taste without doing a lot more work than I'm
able to do.

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?

Thanks,
Maurício

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