Subject: Re: Future of DSSSL: What about PDF? From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:25:27 +0000 (GMT) |
Joerg F. Wittenberger writes: > than tex is. The hard point is that the lout formating model is much > simpler than dsssl's but does not match in some more artificial topics. > Yes. the TeX stuff does 95% of what DSSSL needs, but starts stumbling over some portions of the remaining 5%, and falls flat on its face sometimes. The trouble is that what look like very obscure artificial things end up being used to solve apparently simple problems :-} If you want an example of a mismatch between DSSSL and TeX (is it the same in Lout), DSSSL has the concept of raising the baseline to do superscripts. for arbitrary amounts of text, spanning lines, what have you. TeX just doesn't think like that. Yes, of course you work around the simple cases immediately, but then come the exceptions.... Sebastian DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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