Re: PostScript?

[Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jean-Baptiste writes:

 > 	I saw nowhere mention of a PostScript back-end for Jade.. Is there one?
 > I saw on James Clark's Jade web page that he would like to see a PDF
 > backend, why PDF
 > rather than PostScript? Anyway if we have one, we pretty much have the

there are several formatting engines written in PostScript, by the
way, so this might not be as hard as it sounds. but PDF is purely
declarative, no programming language, so you cannot pull the same
tricks. you have to write an entire text formatter in the
backend. Good luck to James Tauber, I say; Don Knuth thought he could
knock the job off in no time, and it ended up taking him 10 years. 

Wouldnt lout be a better source of material, by the way?

Sebastian


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