Subject: RE: fences (variable size math symbols) From: "Reynolds, Gregg" <greynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 10:32:59 -0500 |
Very true. Do you think we'll ever get a full implementation? (By which I mean a backend that supports the full range of DSSSL flow objects.) With the stampede to XML I rather doubt it; Jadetex with table support and math support will obviously be a boon, but I wonder if anybody will ever write the code for page models, column sets, etc. Free code, I mean. Actually its been a while since I've looked at jadetex so I'm not sure how much of DSSSL it covers, so I'm assuming it sticks pretty much to the simple-page-sequence stuff. I don't know enough about TeX to imagine how one would implement what's needed to support, for example, multiple column sets with sidenotes, crossreferences, etc., but I suspect it would be pretty tough to do without doing a bunch of the composition internally. Do you think it feasible to use the Jadetex strategy to support such things? (I understand "jadetex strategy" to mean a more or less direct mapping of DSSSL specs to tex macro names, so the typesetting logic goes into the macros rather than into the DSSSL backend. Close?) > -----Original Message----- > From: Sebastian Rahtz [SMTP:s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 3:41 AM > To: dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: fences (variable size math symbols) > > Reynolds, Gregg writes: > > True, it's a change, but do you recall what fun it was to learn > > TeX? I sure do. Like working with both hands chopped off. > Actually I > > love TeX, but I think DSSSL will be cooler once we have a full > > implementation. > a full implementation of DSSSL doesn't take us much further, unless we > have a back end capable of rendering the flow objects. Since TeX is > one of the few candidates for a complete, open, typesetting system > with which to render the FOBs, we cannot go around in circles > forever. We have to resolve the detailed issues that David is raising. > > Sebastian > > > DSSSList info and archive: > http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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