From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2393 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: (no) hyphenation Date: 19 Jul 2000 08:56:44 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <3.0.6.32.20000717024554.01c94a30@pop.wxs.nl> <3.0.6.32.20000719091350.01387c10@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393179 8491 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:12:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:12:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Hraban , ConTeXt Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: Hans Hagen's message of "Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:13:50 +0200" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2393 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2393 Hans Hagen 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. -- --Ed Cashin PGP public key: ecashin@coe.uga.edu http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/