From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44932 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?B?SWRyaXMgU2FtYXdpIEhhbWlkINin2K/YsdmK2LMg2LPZhdin2YjZiiDYrQ==?= =?utf-8?B?2KfZhdiv?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: What should I learn? Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:48:40 -0600 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: <955D5B22-DEBB-44DE-B609-E070FF79582C@goddijn.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224618720 19806 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2008 19:52:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:52:00 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Oct 21 21:52:59 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KsNHg-00035V-Oq for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:52:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 642521FBE8; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:51:44 +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 07331-03-5; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:50:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C5241FBAC; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:50:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B21101FBAC for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:50:40 +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 07331-03-4 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:50:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id B9AEC1FB71 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:50:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 27969 invoked by uid 1006); 21 Oct 2008 19:50:01 -0000 Original-Received: from ishamid@colostate.edu by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(0.1/100.0):. Processed in 0.847376 secs); 21 Oct 2008 19:50:01 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.17) by -v with SMTP; 21 Oct 2008 19:50:00 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9848 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2008 19:49:59 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO your-b27fb1c401) (ishamid@75.104.82.252) by -v with SMTP; 21 Oct 2008 19:49:59 -0000 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.50 (Win32) 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:44932 Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:14:50 -0600, Mauricio wrote: > Original Tex is not an option, since PDF, today's font formats > (and Unicode) and many algorithms didn't exist when Knuth decided > no features would be added anymore. Maybe I should hack the source > code of pdftex or luatex? I can try that, but that's going to be > hard work and I would like to know how far I can get before > starting, or if there are easier options (like libraries to write > PDF and read OpenType and books or example code of typesetting > algorithms). The beginning of the above paragraph is confused, but I have no time to disambiguate :-) What you are looking for sounds like a pipe dream. OTOH, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout It is apparently a "Haskell-like" language that seems to roughly correspond to what you are looking for. Best wishes -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________