Re: (no) hyphenation

[Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coe.uga.edu>]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> At 01:28 AM 7/18/00 +0200, Hraban wrote:
> 
> >And I thought, TeX would be able to do *everything* ...
> >(Telling so myself to the people)
>
> I can assure you that there are many thinks tex cannot do. You would
> be surprised to see how much time is spent on programming things
> that seem simple. Did you know that tex cannot do double columns?
> You can fake them, which is what happens.

I know it must be very difficult to fake multiple-column output,
because so many macropackages have trouble with this feature.  This is
off topic, but I'm curious to know: do the new typesetting projects
like omega and NTS have built-in multicolumn support?

> There are also things tex can do that people think tex cannot
> do. The metafun manual I'm working on shows some.

Yes, but that's cheating, because you are finding ways to have TeX and
MetaPost dancing gracefully together!  TeX alone would not be such a
show stopper on the graphics dance floor.

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