Re: a DSSSL typesetter

Subject: Re: a DSSSL typesetter
From: s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sebastian Rahtz)
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 21:33:22 +0100
Aleksandar Bakic writes:
 > That was just because my original idea was to first reimplement TeX in
 > Scheme, and then investigate how I could extend it, in a convenient
 > programming environment, but so that the new implementation remains
 > compatible with the normal TeX (if possible, maybe in an "old TeX
 > mode"). One of the extensions I had in mind was use of a constraint
 > language embedded in Scheme (like the port of Steele's thesis or maybe
 > a future port of Siskind's and McAllester's Screamer) to improve TeX's
 > layout capabilities (e.g., for a magazine, to put boxes across pages,
 > wherever they would fit nicely).

You might want to talk with the people working on NTS, `New
Typesetting System', which is intended as a successor to TeX. Philip
Taylor is the project leader (P.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). They are just
starting on a reimplementation of TeX in Java, to give them a new
development platform for experimentation such as you describe.  They
had planned to do it in Lisp, but decided Java was more realistic
sometime last year.

Sebastian



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