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 DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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